"Katie don't you think you carried a little I donno-- too much!? it's just college but you packed like you're moving out or something." Riya said as they were unpacking. "You said it yourself, it's college and college has many different events and parties so you must have an outfit for every occasion. It's called being prepared." Katie said. "O..kay Missy you can be prepared all you want but you must know that I'm not giving you even 0.01% space in my closet you have to find where to put your stuff." Riya said. "That's really mean of you."Guess what?! I've been mean all my life." Riya said.
"And that's the exact thing that's going to stop you from having a boyfriend by the end of the semester." Katie said. "Don't you know there are people who like mean girls?!" " I know that but I don't think you'll be meeting one of those people." Katie said. "We'll see about that." " Sure" they continued unpacking, had there baths, ordered for dinner with Clara and Stacy. They got to know more about each other and later went to bed.
At 6:00 a.m,. a loud alarm was heard from Riya and Katie's room. "Hey, turn it off." Riya said in a disturbed voice but Katie was still dead asleep like she couldn't hear it yet she was the one who set it.
"Katie." " Katie" she tried calling her but to no avail. She slowly crawled off her bed and instead of turning it off, she went over to Katie's bed. " Hey wake up. You can't put a defeaning alarm to disturb my sleep and still sleep like a log." Riya was saying pulling her. "Katie" "Katie! Seriously I'm not playing with you. Wake up." she kept shaking her but she wasn't responding." Katie" Riya was starting to get scared. She turned on the light and Katie's face was really pale. "Hey" she checked her vitals and they were faint. She rushed out to call Clara and Stacy.
"Hey Clara, Stacy. I need your help. Katie has fainted." she banged their doors. The good thing was they are light sleepers so they heard her. They rushed out.
"What happened?" they asked on seeing her "She had set an alarm last night and it has just gone off and I was telling her to turn it off but she wasn't responding so I came to check on her and she had already fainted." Riya explained really worried about her . "Who knows where the infirmary is?" Clara asked. "We all didn't move around yesterday so how could we know!" Stacy said.
"How bout we ask the guys next door." Riya suggested. "Great idea." they agreed and were ready to rush out.
" Hold on, we can't go out like this." Clara noticed the nightgowns. "Yeah you're right we should probably change first." " Good idea." they went to their rooms and put on anything they could find and went out banging on all the doors of their neighbors. They knocked for a while but I guess people were still sound asleep.
In all the doors they knocked on, only one was opened. It was a fairly handsome dude with admirable height. "Why are you banging them doors at 6 in the morning?" he asked. "We're so sorry to bother you but our roommate has fainted and we need help taking her to the infirmary." Stacy said. "Ahh..fine, since I'm already here I might as well just help. Where is she?" he agreed. "Right this way."
They led him to their room. "In here." they went to Katie's room and the sight before them was shocking. Katie was on the floor doing yoga, more conscious than ever.
"So where is she?" the dude asked and that's when Katie noticed their presence. "Oh morning guys. Where had you gone? I woke up and found the doors open and your pajamas on the floor so I thought you had gone for a run but now that I see you you're definitely not dressed for a run and oh.. who's the guy?!" Katie said and the rest didn't even know what to think.
" Him,-uh...he's our neighbor and you're.. not fully dressed." Riya said going forward to cover her with the quilt cuz she was just in a sports bra and biker. "Shoot. I didn't notice." Katie said kinda embarrassed.
"O--kay, it's great that she's all right but are we going to pretend like nothing just happened?" Stacy had to say. " Seems everything is fine, if she's the supposed 'fainted one' so I'm just gonna go. And a piece of advice, make sure your claims are always true before you go around disturbing people's sleep. Not everyone can be nice."the dude said and left.
" That was embarrassing." Clara said. "Wait who fainted?" Katie was confused. "We thought you had.. but you appear to be just fine." Stacey said. "Why would you think that?" "Riya, talk to your friend before I lose it." Stacey said.
"Because your alarm was disturbingly loud but you weren't waking up. I shook you all over but to no avail and you're pulse was weak." Riya said. "Oh so that was you. Riya I thought you know I'm a heavy sleeper?!" Katie said. "No, I do not. Since you've always been up before me." "Ohh.. right. That's true but I'm a really deep sleeper plus, I dreamt I was at the spa having the best massage of my life that's probably why my vitals were low. I was relaxed and you said you kept tapping me. I thought that was my messager getting a little rough so I didn't open my eyes." Katie said.
"And your face?! Why was your face as pale as a ghost?" " Oh this! It's a face mask, it's really thin that it can't be easily noticed and makes you a little pale." Katie said touching her face. "Why do I suddenly feel so stupid?" Stacy said. "You're not alone." Clara said. "So wait... you guys thought I had fainted?" Katie asked.
"Is it not obvious?! We even went banging doors to get help and when we do and get him here, you're perfectly all right! Do you know how that makes us look like?!" Stacy said. "Like fools, liars, sleep disrupters!" "Exactly! Like fools and embarrassed about how you were dressed. Didn't we leave you in a full set of pajamas?!" Riya said. "Yeah but I had to do yoga so I needed a comfortable outfit. How would I know that you would bring in a dude." Katie said. "Fine, you're right. It was our fault for not using violent methods of waking you up like slapping, biting, even using cold water." Stacy said.
" Hey, is that supposed to make me feel better?" Katie asked. "No it's supposed to show you what means we should have used to confirm that you had fainted and show you that I'll be using that on you any time soon." Stacy said. "Okay guys it's pointless to argue about it now. We've wasted a lot of time and you wouldn't want to be late for lectures." Clara said. "Right! We still have lectures, I had almost forgotten about those." Stacy said. "Actually me too." Riya admitted.
" Did any of you read the college program for freshmen or you're just assuming things." Katie said. "What do you mean by that?" "What I mean is if any of you read it you'd know there are no lectures for the first week." Katie said. " Are you for real?" Stacy asked. "Yeah, first week is for getting settled and familiar with the school and selection of our majors basically." Katie explained. "Well why didn't you tell us earlier." Clara asked. "Cuz none of you asked." " Okay so why then did you put an alarm for 6:00 a.m.?" Riya asked.
"Oh that was for my yoga." Katie said and they all started murmuring among themselves trying hard not to pounce on her. "Since we got no lectures or anything I'm off to bed." Stacy said. "Me too." Clara also followed. "And oh don't sleep long, we have a dorm meeting at 8." Katie shouted out to them. "F**k that." Stacy said closing their door.