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Just when Azzi thought that her day couldn’t get any worse, the combination of her Biology lab report and her roommate banging tonight’s lucky hookup in their shared bathroom wasn’t helping the case.
If she heard another ooh or right there, she might just make the 10 o’clock news. The thoughts of the mysterious girl pressed against the shower wall while her roommate….
She shook her head. Now was not the time to be thinking like that
Not being able to withstand the noise she decides to do what any other sane person would do. Call someone else to suffer with you.
“ Do you hear this shit, Car” Azzi said as she dropped her head on the keyboard. If anything Caroline was supposed to be in the same dorm suffering with her, but due to Azzi procrastination when it came to decision making she couldn’t decide on what dorm complex she wanted her and Caroline to live in. What she didn’t expect was for Housing to put her in a totally separate dorm with a totally random roommate.
“Maybe you can ask her to stop?” Caroline proudly asked
Azzi just lifted her head giving her a look
“Never mind, forget I said anything”
Finally it stopped and for once Azzi thought her roommate was done in record breaking time.
That was until “What you heard” by Sonder came on and round six had begun.
Not that she was counting or anything
“I can’t take this anymore” Azzi yelled, standing up a little too fast. Opening the door, she quickly reached the bathroom door. Her internal monologue was telling her that she has this and it doesn’t matter if her roommate is the Paige Bueckers (The best women’s football player on UConn’s campus.)
She knocks on the door and instantly hears scrambling from the other side of the door. The door opens and Azzi is met with the women of the hour, Paige Bueckers.
“You need something?” She inquires and Azzi finds that all of the confidence from her pep talk is gone. The blond girl is standing in front of her leaning on the doorway. They were around the same height but her presence seemed to tower over the younger girl. Her hair was down and wavy presumably from the shower she was just enjoying. And to make matters worse the only thing covering her frame was a white fluffy towel.
The taller girl raises her eyebrow again, trying to gain the other girls attention, as she turns her head.
“I have a bio report, quieter?, please” Azzi blurts out. This is definitely a humiliation ritual, if she had to guess.
“ Yea, I will start wrapping it up” Paige chuckles in response before closing the door. As soon as the door closes, Azzi lets out a long sigh that she didn’t even know she was holding.
“I think you handled that well” Caroline chimed in, scaring the hell out of Azzi as she had forgotten the other girl was on the line.
“Shut up” she muttered. “I need to transfer to a new school”
“I was thinking you could just blame the stuttering on the amount of energy drinks you have had in the last week”
Wanting to forget the previous encounter, Azzi decided to spend the rest of the late night session with a celebratory bowl of ice cream and finally finishing her lab report. She hangs up with Caroline and calls it a night.
As she tucks herself into bed , wishing that tomorrow will a better and less stressful day.
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Azzi quickly realizes that her wish was denied
It starts off with the gym being extremely pack at 6:30 a.m.. Every stair master in sight is filled with people who look nowhere near done with their workout (probably getting ready for Halloween.) She tries the smith machines but finds the cross-country team occupying the space. Her last hope is the free weights but quickly finds that all the weights she uses are taken.
Giving up, she decides to go to the Smoothie Shake place that is in the gym. Only, they are out of her favorite green mango smoothie and the only other recommendation the man gives is a vanilla milkshake.
Who fucking drinks a vanilla milkshake at 8:30 in the morning.
Azzi settles for a protein bar to get her through class. Walking to the bus station right outside of the gym she notices a piece of paper:
Blue route is out service today; Sorry for the inconvenience.
A huge inconvenience but nothing she couldn’t overcome. She buys 10 minutes on an e-scooter ( which gets approved after her card declines 3 times.) She is going to be 5 minutes late and she prays that the professor won’t lock the door.
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“How nice of you to join us, Fudd” her professor acknowledged her in the lecture hall of 100 without looking up. “ Since you are late would you care to read the passage from the article I prescribed.”
Caroline nudges her as she tries to remember the article she forgot to print out. She reads the passage and gives a half-ass interpretation of it
“ Next time I would like you to read from your own paper instead of Ducharme’s. “ He chirps. Azzi spends the rest of class moping as she has never gotten called out in front of the class like that before.
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“ I am worried about you” Caroline says as she watches the brunette shotgun two whole expresso. “ That can not be healthy”
“ Just think about as academic pregaming”
“I think you should take a break”
“ As much as I would love to do that, I still have 3 more things to do today “ Azzi says as she starts to run off “ How motherly of you to be worried tho.”
Caroline goes to open her mouth to tell Azzi something but she is long gone at that point.
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This part of the day has a special place in Azzi’s heart. Working as an assistant at the on-campus daycare has its ups and down but the kids make it worth it.
Except today they decide to be mini crotch goblins. It all start off with Sam putting gum in Mia’s hair. She tries her best to do damage control but it only leaves Mia crying about how ugly her hair is. Calvin decides to push Demarcus off of the slide at recess and Azzi is only able to talk him off the ledge with a Pokémon bandaid
The icing on the cake was Xavier’s drawing. The inspiring artist has taken it upon his self to draw a picture of Azzi everyday. She enjoyed seeing the stylistic differences of from day-to-day. Today, Xavier choose realism
The picture mainly constituted of dark colors beside her pink hoodie ( Xavier made sure to draw her expresso stain on it.) Her hair was drawn in a crazy messed up bun and worst of all her face had a sad face with tears.
“Maybe we should keep the happy ones for hanging” Azzi tried to insinuate.
“ Nah, I like this one. Feels real” the five year old said before handing it to Auntie Cass, the head teacher and then went off to go and play
“ I hate to agree with him but it does reflect your current state” Auntie Cass says while patting the younger girl’s back “ Go home”
“I-“
“If the next words out of your mouth is a no, I will pull you into my lap and rock you like you are five in that rocking chair” she demands “Go home, I meant it”
Azzi can’t really argue with that so she takes off her lanyard and says goodbye to the receptionist before walking out into the frigid air. She pops her AirPods back in her ear to play Mary J Blige
She makes it half the way to the Dinning hall where she is supposed to meet up with Caroline and Ines, when her phone goes off
Car: Club basketball practice is canceled :/
Before she can respond, all she sees in her peripheral is something spinning in her direction. After whatever it is makes impact she hears a girl scream and all she can see is black and all she can think about is this it.
This is the break she had wished for.