Hard to Love (A Before You Exit fanfic)

Chapter 5: Wake Up Call

Tonight went better than I expected it to. McKenna and I were back at the dorm and finished situating our stuff. By the time everything was finished it was approximately 1 o'clock in the morning. McKenna had already gotten situated in bed so I decided to finally look through my phone.

3 missed calls. 7 unread text messages.

I sighed as I crawled into bed and underneath my blanket. I looked through the texts to see a variety of things but all in all, very similar.

6:07 PM: How's your dorm? Do you like your roommate?

6:42 PM: I hope you're enjoying the Florida weather. It's rainy here. I miss you.

7:34 PM: Why aren't you answering my texts? I guess your busy with your new roommate. Text me when you get the chance. Love you and miss you. <3

And so on and so forth. It was 1 AM here but only 10 PM in California. He would still be awake. I would be too. Plus, I'm still running on west coast time. I suppose I should text him back.

Me: Hey babe. Sorry, I've been busy getting situated in Florida and what not. I miss you. How was your day?

Andy: Oh there you are. :) It was boring. I've stayed inside and have done absolutely nothing. What have you been up to?

Me: Well I got my stuff situated. Then went to Starbucks with my roommate, McKenna, and her friend, Yessi. They both took me to a concert of their friends. It was actually pretty fun.

Andy: Oh, well that's new for you.

Me: Yeah, I didn't have much of a choice though. I'm exhausted from today though. Text me when you wake up?

Andy: You know I will. Sweet dreams, love. I love you.

Me: I love you too, Andy.

I set my phone down on the side table and rolled over to face the wall. Thoughts consumed my mind which prevented me from falling asleep. Truth be told, I forgot about Andy for a while tonight. I forgot that he was hours away and that I wouldn't see him anytime soon. Talking to him was different than it usually is. I guess being apart from him was just different and something that I'd have to get used to.

Somewhere within the time of me thinking about anything and everything with the combination of staring at the wall for who knows how long, I drifted asleep.

I heard a faint vibrate coming off from the distance. I began to rubbed my eyes as I slowly woke up. I felt as though I was pelted with dozens of bricks; sore, weak, etc. I got maybe 2 hours of sleep max?

What time even is it? I lifted my head slowly to see McKenna's phone lighting up.

"McKenna!" I groaned. No response. "McKenna!" I groaned once again. Nothing.

New plan. I grabbed a pillow and threw it at McKenna. Surprisingly I nailed her in the head. My aim is usually terrible. Oh look, she's still asleep.

I kicked the blanket off but not realizing it, my foot was still entangled causing me to fall straight to the floor between mine and McKenna's bed. Not even that woke her.

Umm, oww.

I reached my hand up to McKenna's phone to see it was 10:47 AM. How is it almost 11:00? Connor was calling. I suppose I should answer it. I've went through enough effort to make it this far.

"Hello?" I answered into the phone.

"Hey....Skye? Is that you?" Connor questioned.

"Yeah, it's me. What's up?" I looked around for a moment until I untangled my foot from the blanket. I guess I was making noises of some sort because Connor could hear me.

"I'm uhh...I'm calling to see what time we're picking you up today. Umm, are you okay?" He questioned. I could tell he had a puzzled look on his face by the way he was talking.

"Oh, right Well, McKenna is currently sleeping. I yelled at her to wake up and threw a pillow at her. Still nothing. And to answer your question, I uhh sorta, well, never mind. I'm okay." I am such an idiot.

I finally got off the floor and threw the blanket onto the bed.

"Umm, well okay." He continued brushing off whatever he heard. "Anyways, we were all going to meet at Mariah's at noon. Is it okay if we get you at 11:30 so that we can stop at Starbucks on the way?" Connor asked.

"You guys really do have an obsession for Starbucks. Don't you?" I managed to laugh surprisingly enough with how my morning has started. "Yeah, that's fine. Any recommendations on how to wake up McKenna?" I questioned.

"Hmm...She was fell asleep on my couch once and crashed for the night. I kissed her forehead in the morning and she woke up. But I uhh, I wouldn't recommend you doing that." He laughed.

"I'll figure it out. See you soon, Connor."

"Sounds good." Connor hung up the phone leaving me to wake up McKenna.

So they're not dating? But they hang out a lot and he's kissed her forehead after she stayed at his house? She's right, it does sound complicated. But how do I wake her up and tell her we have to leave here in thirty minutes?

I thought to myself for a moment before deciding to just throw pillows at her repeatedly. After throwing the same two pillows repeatedly, she woke up. It only took....seven minutes.

"Connor called. They'll be here in about 25 minutes. We're stopping at Starbucks and then going straight to Mariah's. Get ready." I told her as I looked through my clothes to find my blue bikini and the dress to go over top.

"25 minutes?!" McKenna panicked as she climbed out of bed and rummaged through her clothes.

Somehow we were able to get ready by the time the guys pulled up to the campus. I grabbed my sunglasses off the dresser and put them on the top of my head as McKenna and I ran out of the dorm.

Riley left the front door open for McKenna to join Connor up front. Toby climbed to the far back. Which left Riley and I to sit in the middle.

Starbucks was a short five minute drive down the road. Instead of all crawling out of the car, McKenna and Connor went to get the drinks.

"I know what Toby and Riley want. What do you want, Skye?" Connor asked as he leaned his head into the car window.

I thought for a moment then looked over to Riley.

"She'll have the Double Chocolate Chip Frap." Riley answered for me.

"Same as Riley. Got it." Connor nodded his head as he and McKenna walked into the busy Starbucks.

I looked over to Riley and smiled.

"Is this going to be a normal thing?" I asked.

"Is what going to be a normal thing?" Riley laughed.

"You ordering for me." I finished.

"Only if we make it a normal thing." Riley smiled at me and I smirked slightly back at him.

I felt my phone vibrate with a new text. Right...Andy.

Author's note: Hey guys! So this chapter is pretty basic and short but I put in some cute parts so yay. I could have made it longer but I'm not in a total writing mood and I promised someone that I would update it so here it is. I have some cute ideas for the next chapter which should be good. Vote, comment, etc. please (: Thanks for reading! :D -Cassandra