Dark Depth

Chapter 8

Fallon ~

Danie's boyfriend shows up and whisks her away down the corridor. The dorm is now empty, free for me to play my music as loud as I want or to read aloud my favorite passages from the piles of books surrounding me.

That's when another knock issues from the door and I sigh putting my laptop back on the desk carefully.

I step over the thick strip of red tape that Danie put down to separate my part of the dorm from hers.

I must have loafed a bit because a familiar voice echoed from the other-side of the door.

"Fallon? I know you're in there. I can hear the music." Aleks laughed.

"What're you doing here?" I said opening the door. "This is supposed to be a weekend, you know. Day off from school?"

"Well I was wondering if I could show you a movie I brought over-" Aleks began.

"Why?" I blurted. "I mean, don't you have other friends to bug." I realised it sounded rather mean but Aleks didn't seem to care.

"Well yeah. But they've all watched this movie, and you're the only other person with a laptop who's my friend." Aleks laughed.

"Oh god." I laughed. "What movie is it?"

"A really old one." He said coming in and flopping down on my bed.

Funny. How did he know which side was mine?

Then I noticed that Splatter was on my bed with my beats strewn over the pillow with my phone buzzing away merrily and I figured that he would have to have been pretty stupid not to guess correctly.

I slumped down next to him and he pulled the laptop on his lap and put the disk in the slot on the side.

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It was really late when we finished watching and by this time I was half asleep. The movie had been pretty good and I asked if I could keep it awhile.

"Yeah sure." He said shrugging his shoulders. "I've watched it tons of times."

"Where the fuck is Danie?" I laughed getting up.

"Why?" He replied lazily.

"She's been gone awhile." I said.

Aleks stood up and knocked over a pile of books. I moaned but he picked them up and sorted them out.