A month had passed now and summer had just turned to fall, the leaves from the trees began to turn darker and fall off their oak branches landing side by side with the tree's trunk. The weather cooled down and the skies began to darken in color which made the nights seemed to grow much shorter. The papers and homework piled up so much it seemed to go through the roofs.

Over such a short amount a time lots of things have changed, friendships have grown, some friendships have been developed and some friendships sadly disfigured. Ever since the rejection that Maria had faced between her and Phillip she's been hiding out a bit and rolling with a different kind of crowd, trying to stay away from her old 'foursome' to avoid any contact with the man who rejected her. This left the remaining three in a bit of predicament, although for a while it was depressing and uncomfortable they had to get over it and move on with their life's because they had to imagine themselves in Maria's position and it wasn't pretty.

Mike found himself spending more and more time with Eve ever since Phillip left to sink into his own little pit of depression with all the confusion that had been going on lately, losing one of his best friends over something he had no clue about for two years was on so many layers astonishing. The remaining two got to know each other's likes and dislikes, past relationships and relationships in progress, even their dreams and ambitions and it was definitely a relief from the stress they were both facing due to the depression that their roommates were in and seemed to be trying to pull them down into.

The two have known each other for a while but something about sophomore year brought them closer together, they assume it's because last year Mike was focused on himself and only that. He didn't have plan's that didn't revolve around parties or hooking up with some of the girl's around campus who would give him something. Not only that, but Eve had a boyfriend named Cody all throughout most of her freshman year that kept her busy if she wasn't tugged away by her roommate or Punk.

"You know it's funny, if it wasn't for Maria and her crazy 'match me up with Punk' idea, we'd probably not even be here right now talking. Hell, I'd probably be off with Maryse right about now."

A giggle came out of her lips at that, she thought about it for a few seconds and then began to smile even wider before looking up at him, "You know, you're right. If it wasn't for Maria and her crazy ways right about now I'd be sitting with Phil and her somewhere watching her make googley eyes at him."

Eve took in a deep breath of the fresh hair before looking up at the much taller individual to ask the question on her mind, "So, what ever happened between you and Maryse anyways? One week you two were a thing and then the next week you, well, weren't."

A smile came across his lips automatically when she signified that him and Maryse were no longer a thing, it gave him some sense of satisfaction. "Well, I guess I just didn't see a future with her because she was so needy and bitchy all the time, I mean sure she was hot but." Mike couldn't help but end his comment with a simple shrug while simultaneously placing his hands in his jacket pockets.

"Wait a second; you just said you didn't see a future with her. What was with all that talk "I'm a guy, girls are different, and any guy would be an idiot to commit, do you remember that?"

"You know, I have no clue what you're talking about Eve." Mike chuckled teasing the woman alongside him. The expression on her face was meant to be somewhat threatening but who was she kidding, she was a tiny 20 year old girl who was 5'8 while Mike stood 6'3 who was two times her weight and his weight was mostly muscle, how could Eve intimidate somebody like him, she couldn't.

"Speak of the devil." Mike sighed, as he began to slow down when Maryse came into his view.

Eve turned her head to see two blondes walking side by side in the direction that they were heading, a look of disgust was spread across the Canadian's face when she saw Miz walking alongside another female that wasn't her.

"Oh, hi you two, aren't you both just the cutest." Maryse said crudely trying to hide her jealousy over the topic.

Although Eve was aware that Maryse was angry over Mike not flaunting all over her she felt it'd be best to be the friendly third party in the situation, so Eve put on one of those award winning smiles and flashed it for the two girls to see, "Hey Maryse, hi Barb. How are you two?"

"I'm just fine, thank you." Maryse said viciously while not taking her brown eyes off of the man in front of her. That couldn't help but lead him into a huge smirk, to see her so loss without him all over her was an amusing sight to see for anyone, but especially for him.

Barbie snatched Maryse's arm signaling her that it was indeed time for them to go, and with that alone Maryse allowed her friend to lead her away. One last glance of eye contact between Maryse and Mike was granted before she walked away with Barbie leaving only Mike and Eve once again, which was the way he liked it.

"Wow, she's annoying."

"Yea, but she's so not over you."

Mike looked at the brunette as she said that and sighed before continuing on with the nice walk that they were having before, "I don't think that all, I think it's more of a selfish thing. She wants what she can't get and now that I turned her down she wants me back to prove that she has some sort of power of me but I'm not going to allow that to happen.

"Well if it means anything I always thought you were too good for her." Eve let out softly while her eyes were still connected with the pathway ahead of her, hearing that made a smile appear across his lips, every time he was around her she made him feel good and not like some worthless down on his luck loser like everyone else did, it was surely refreshing.

"Thank you, Eve."

Over the past month lots of changes were made to Brie's social life when she finally took AJ's advice to give Randy Orton a chance, no longer was she having to deal with his annoying outbursts to purposely aggravate her. From then and forth he has been nothing but his complete self around her which was kind of nice, it allowed her to grow closer to not only him but his roommate Dolph Ziggler which of course brought her even closer than she was to his dear friend, AJ.

To think of the fact that Brie's biggest worry on day one was that she couldn't make friends or go on without Nikki was now amusing to her because she came to realize she could, in fact she has never been so close to anyone as she was with those three, besides Nikki of course.

As the Italian glanced around the room she couldn't help but to also observe everyone's actions around her, AJ and Dolph were currently cuddled up on his bed in a nonchalant form while Randy sat in his computer chair (where Brie noticed he sits all the time) dribbling the basketball in his hand, his expression seemed off today, like he was panicking or upset over something, but she assumed that she was just imagining that in her head.

Randy's blue eyes connected with Brie's brown ones as he caught her observing him, a smirk was plastered on his face as he raised his eyebrows up and down in a sexy manner in her direction, this led the tatted man to begin to speak, "So what are all of your plan's for this week?"

His roommate, Dolph was the first one to speak up "I've got a few tests to study for which is always exciting, how 'bout you baby cakes?" The bleach blonde smiled as he looked down into her green eyes. Before responding AJ couldn't help but to smile to herself, it was a lovely thing whenever he called her names like baby cakes or babe, but there was a major downfall to his little nicknames and all the attention that he gave to her.

When Dolph addressed her with his cute little names or snuggled up to her it was his way of being friendly and showing his appreciate for their friendship due to how close they were and how far they've been in their friendship. For AJ though she always confused it with a sign of attraction or feeling, this wasn't the first time she's caught herself imagining the idea of Dolph and her over his flirtatious actions, too bad she could imagine all she wanted but they're imaginations for a reason, and the reason was it wasn't realistic enough to ever come true.

` In conclusion, April took the time to snap out of her thoughts and reply to his question, "I don't really know, just the average studying and lessons, nothing really new."

Brie couldn't help but cut in unasked because she was a bit excited herself for the news she had to share, you could hear the enthusiasm in her voice "This isn't for another couple of months but my twin sister's coming into town and I'm very excited for that, I haven't seen her in what seems like forever."

"I don't know, two of you? Sounds like it'd be a little tricky." A playful glare was sent directly toward Randy after he said that, all he responded with for a while was an amused chuckle and a delicate smirk.

"Way to crush my excitement, Orton."

"No, no. Don't get me wrong, I'm very happy for you. I know you've been missing your sister, her name's Nicole right?"

She'd be lying if she were to say that it didn't provide a bit of shock that he remember her sister's name but she was pretty thrilled that he did. "Yes, her name's Nicole. Thanks for remembering."

All Randy responded with was a small genuine smile dedicated directly to her, as he leaned back in his computer chair a loud sound came from the computer speakers, when Randy peaked over he came to notice that the sound was an alert that Dolph had gotten a face book message, a message from the one and only Barbie Blank.

"Um, Dolph it looks like you've got yourself a message from the Barbs."

With those few words alone, Dolph's whole body shot up and pounced off of his bed, practically sprinting over to the desktop computer. The look of despair on AJ's face told the whole story, seeing him flee away from her so quickly was definitely a heartbreaker.

"Now, what would you have done if I was lying?" Randy asked as his friend pushed his chair away from the computer table, slinging the chiseled man across the room over to the two girls.

A smiled pursed across his lips as he described the message out loud, "She says she wants to meet me somewhere to hang out." His fingers instantly glued to the keyboard to type out his definite agreement to her message.

Before AJ could even get a word in, Dolph went for his keys and jacket, said his goodbyes and he was gone leaving AJ in a pit of despair. It was the most painful thing to see someone you care about so much constantly flaunting over another woman.