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Story: Pretty Poison

“Hey, you're bothering my friend, how about getting out of here?”

“Nobody spoke to you, China.” The idiot had the courage to retort.

Logan was pissed.

I was already pissed.

I grabbed my green juice, which I had just picked up, and threw it all in the idiot's face.

I grabbed Logan and Emily and yanked them out of the coffee shop. We ran to Logan's car and managed to get out of there without the idiot following us.

“What the fuck was that?” The blonde questioned, this time in the back seat.

“An idiot who likes to harass girls and be racist taking a green juice in the face.” I declared, still a little nervous. Logan smiled weakly at me. “Thank you for defending me.”

“That’s what teammates are for.”

“It's a shame you ran out of your juice, Roni.” Emily felt sorry for me, but I didn't care about that. I was actually thinking about my regrets about last night.

“I’ll buy a can of juice from the machine later.” I shrugged. It wasn't the same, but I wouldn't go back to that place today. Logan dropped us off in front of our dorm and we thanked him for the ride. We got out of the car and, as soon as it was far enough away, I pulled Emily by the arm and asked her: “Do you like him?”

My roommate's green eyes went wide and she got red in the spot.

“What?”

“Emily, you understood the question…” I mocked.

She rolled her eyes and crossed her arms.

“No! I mean... I like him as a teammate, but that's it.”

I smirked.

“Liar!” I accused her, making the poor thing blush even more. Emily sighed.

“Okay, and what if I do?”

I squealed, excited by the idea of the possible couple, and pulled her into the building. I wanted to know everything about it.

In the lobby, we ended up finding Sidney at the food machine getting two bottles of sparkling water.

“Hey, Sidney!” I greeted her.

The girl with golden-brown skin smiled at both of us.

“Hi, have you just arrived?”

“Yes…” I sighed.

“Are you going to study?”

“We’ve got to, right?!” Em mumbled, a little discouraged.

“Unfortunately!” Sidney also regretted it. The three of us went up the stairs together and the girl walked us to the door of our room while the three of us complained about the hard practice we had been through.

However, when we reached the bedroom door, noises sounded from inside.

“You've got to be kidding me!” Emily couldn’t believe it as a bed banged against the wall and two people groaned inside. I couldn't contain my laughter, and Sidney joined me in this. “She didn't need to bebusyin our room, right?!” Groaned the blonde.