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before heading back to my room.

I left my hair in a towel to dry as I dug through my now excessively cramped closet to find my dress. I found it pushed against the back wall and quickly started trying to pull it out before any of my other clothes could drag me into the mess and hold me prisoner for eternity.

When I managed to untangle it from the disaster that was my closet, I held it up in front of me and smiled. I had to agree with Amber, the dress really was gorgeous. The bottom was skin tight and ended several inches above my knees. The top of it was a halter top with a built in bra, which was lucky for me since the back was too low cut for me to wear one. It wasn’t my usual style but I loved it.

I quickly squirmed into it before pulling my hair out of the towel and running the brush through it as I blow dried it. My hair was almost to my waist and took forever to dry, so I rarely spent the time required to blow dry and straighten it, but tonight was my first college party and I wanted to look my best. After I got my hair under control, I started applying my make-up. My roommate Rachel walked in just as I was finishing and flopped face down on her bed groaning.

“Rough day Rachel?”

She groaned again and nodded, “Remind me again why I signed up for all these classes?”

I laughed as she rolled over to face me.

“Hot damn woman, you look amazing. And FYI, if that dress comes up missing and finds itself in my closet, it wasn’t me. I swear it.”

“Thanks for the warning. I know how these things grow legs and walk straight into someone else’s closet, but mine usually end up in Amber’s somehow.”

“Anytime, so where are you headed looking like that?”

“There’s some party at a sorority house Amber is dragging me to. You’re welcome to come if you want.”

She considered my offer for a minute before shaking her head, “No thanks, I’ve had a rough day, I’m just going to curl up on my bed and read tonight. I don’t think I could take on a party tonight if I tried.”

I had seen Rachel’s schedule the day we moved in and I knew she wasn’t kidding. Her days started first thing in the morning and except for lunch, ran solid up until early evening. The girl was crazy in my opinion, but her parents had pushed her to take everything she could.

Rachel was what you would call a sexy nerd. She was one of the smartest people I had ever met, but with her long red hair, perfect face, and amazing figure she was a total babe by anyone’s standards. When I had first met her, I was terrified she was going to be one of those self-absorbed girls, but with her down to Earth personality, I had liked her within the first ten minutes.

“Alright, but next time you’re going with me even if I have to drag you,” I glanced at the clock before slipping into my shoes and heading for the door, “I don’t think I’ll be out late, but if I am I promise to be super quiet when I come in.”

She grinned up at me, “Don’t worry, I’ll probably still be between the pages with a certain Mr. Maddox. Lord knows I can’t put him down once I start.”

I laughed at her current book obsession as I walked out the door, “Can’t blame you there. Later.”

I made my way back down the stairs carefully so I wouldn’t break my neck in Amber’s amazing but super high heeled shoes. As I reached her room, I knocked once before heading in.

“Hey! What the hell? Oh, it’s just you, don’t do that to me!” Amber yelled as a welcome.

She was standing in just her bra and a super chic miniskirt staring at her closet like the perfect shirt was about to jump out at her.

“I have nothing to wear!”

I raised my eyebrow as I pointed at her closet, “You have about a million shirts in there, surely you can pick out something.”

She finally pulled out a cute yellow tank top and threw it over her head, “I guess this will do. Come on, we better hurry or we’ll be late.”

“Can you even be late for one of these things?”

She rolled her eyes as she breezed by me and headed out