This story is dedicated to my best friend,
Hannah,
For always reminding me of the depressing side of college.
Mickey’s Mad House
[ o1 ] The bra, the professor and the back seat
It was funny how when I had to choose what to bring to college, little seemed important to me. I could imagine other people packing their belongings away with their best friends and laughing over the memories that went with the items. I could imagine a hatchback packed full to the brim with luggage and held together by duct tape and rope. I could imagine heart felt hugs and tears being shed as they left in that car full of things. Unfortunately, I never had that for myself. I guess I’m kind of lucky though. I had no one to miss and be missed by. I didn’t need to ‘keep in touch’ as so many yearbooks probably read.
Instead, I packed what I had alone into a single duffle and a single moving box. I packed my belongings completely alone in a comfortable house and finished quickly. No tear filled hugs made me linger at my parent’s house. It was quick and efficient. Like everything I did. Although I had little money, I survived. Although I didn’t have a bed to sleep in, I survived. My scholarship did not pay for everything like those picture perfect storybooks. Financial aid barely made a dent in the payment that I had left.
That was the reason that I wake up each morning in the back seat of my car. And today was like every other. It has only been a day since the term started but I was already feeling the stress. Where were my classes? Would I trip and fall? Would I be late and therefore have to forfeit the class all together? I could see it in the pale pallor of my skin—the stress of my first year, my first day, my first class. Completely alone.
I sat up straight in the back seat of my car and drowsily picked up a pair of jeans from inside of my duffle bag on the floor. Slipping them on, I simultaneously tugged at the hem of my nightshirt to pull it off. Unfortunately, and this wasn’t the first time, the shirt got caught on my earing.
“This was not what I needed,” I mumbled to myself, tugging and twisting myself in the back seat of my car. The shirt was tangled in not only my earing but also over my shoulders. I gave a yelp when the material stretched my earing painfully and that was when I started to feel the annoyed stress coiling in my shoulder blades. My attack for freedom became more frantic as I continued to work myself free. Finally, I heard a rip and then I was gasping for air, slumped against the back seat of my car in only my nude bra and jeans.
My eyes unconsciously flicked up for a moment before diving back to the carpeted floor for my bag. But then I stopped, gulped and hoped that my eyes had been playing tricks on me when I looked back up and out the side window for clarity. Unfortunately, no, my eyes had taken in the correct image.
The image of a male student, books in hand, stopped and staring with his mouth slightly open.
I felt the heat slowly inch up my neck and settle on my cheeks. My eyes widened and I felt like a deer in the headlights. Then, the boy’s eyes fell to my chest. And, like the stupid and blubbering idiot that I was, I looked down too. My bra. The guy was staring at my bra. My nude colored bra that made it look like I was from a nudist colony.
Snapping my gaze up, I covered my chest with whatever belated dignity I had left. The boy, completely unaffected by my embarrassment, made it ten times worse. “Morning!” he called out and waved at me with a sly smirk. My mouth fell open in shock at the boy and my face felt white-hot. Not expecting me to reply, the boy turned and shoved his freehand into his front pocket. With a bounce in his step, he jovially whistled his way towards the college campus.
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Mickey's Mad House
HumorWatty's 2012 :D Mickey O'Hara is about to fall face first into guy chaos. Five roommates, all guys, all hormonal, all complete opposites, and all annoying. Sometimes when living with boys, you have to be the better boy just to survive.