I can fit it all into my car. By the way, are you sure I can park in front of the complex?”
“Yeah. One of my neighbors moved out and the parking spot is free. Don’t worry about it. God, I feel like you’re dreading coming here.”
I laughed at that. “A little. But only because I know we’ll stay up far too late and never get anything done. My grades are gonna suffer because of you.”
“Hey, you agreed on moving in. Don’t blame me if I’ll be the best roommate you’ll ever have.”
“All right, all right. I’ll text you when I’m done.”
We hung up the phone, and before I set it onto my bed, I received a message from AJ.
Glad we talked things out. Let me know if there’s something you need. Good luck living with Evie.
AJ and Evie had a love-hate relationship.
They acted like brother and sister, and it often times was a pain in the ass going out with them.
Safe to say they knew how college life worked, whereas I wished I had already graduated.
Me too. Thank you for understanding. And I think I’ll survive somehow.
Thanks to AJ, I realized that relationships weren’t really my thing.
Not sure if he was the reason why I didn’t want one, or if I just wasn’t capable of being in one.
Either way, I loved being single.
I wasn’t a major flirt, but if a guy caught my attention, I surely wouldn’t just stand there and wait until he noticed me.
I was open for whatever came my way.
Anything besides an actual relationship.
*
“Finally!” I heard Evie’s voice shout from the top floor of the apartment complex.
It was a nice, industrial looking building, and I knew the inside was just as nice.
Evie threw a few parties here already, and I also slept over whenever I was too tired to get back to my dorm.
“I’ll be right with you!” she shouted.
I gave her a thumbs up as I got out of my car, and while she walked down the stairs, I got out all of my suitcases and bags.
I looked around the parking lot and noticed three other cars, one of which was Evie’s.
Her Porsche didn’t fit into this part of town, but she grew up in a gated community on the other side of Riverton, where her parents not only owned the country club, but also a few car dealerships around the state.
As rich as her parents were, she wasn’t too stuck up.
She did have her moments, but knowing her since we were four, she never acted up around me.
I remembered meeting her the first time in kindergarten.
She made me cry because she said the dog on my shirt was ugly, that I would never get my own dog, and that her chihuahua was so much prettier.
Weirdly enough, we found our way to each other after realizing we had one thing in common.
We both loved to draw.
And we were pretty damn good at it too.
That’s why we took the same classes, and art was a big part of our lives.
If things worked out right, we would open our own gallery to sell our paintings, but neither of us were ready to go there yet.
We still had to graduate and create a plan on how we would run a business surrounding our art.
“I’m so excited! We’ll have a party tonight. Just us two, with lots of snacks and wine.”
She hugged me tight.
“Wine? Are you sure you wanna drink tonight?”
After she let go of me, she raised her brows at me. “It’s Saturday. We’re usually out at a party on Saturday,” she pointed out.
“Right. But you partied last night, and I can still smell the vodka on your breath, Evie.”
She rolled her eyes at me and reached for one of the suitcases.
“Stop acting like my mother or I will kick you out even before you made it up the stairs,” she warned, not meaning one word of what she just said.
“You wouldn’t dare,” I muttered. “You need me.”
“Yes, probably. I just don’t know it yet,” she said with a shrug.
As we arrived upstairs with all of my things, we entered her apartment and put everything into my new room.
“We can put your things away tomorrow. Let’s eat, I’m too tired to do anything tonight.”
Evie’s apartment took up the whole upper floor, which was a little extra considered the other six people living in this complex had far smaller apartments.
I knew about a family that lived here once.
Their three kids had to share one bedroom, and Evie was up here