The Love Triangle

1- Preparations

Tomorrow is the day I take my finals, and I just can't afford to fail. I've been studying non stop for the past few days. Literally my routine is get up, study eat, study, and then sleep. Its pretty easy to study most days but not when your best friend stolls out of her room and starts yelling over the phone.

"Can you hear me now! Yeah. So um... I really need some chips. If you can pick me up some sour cream, and onion chips......It doesn't matter what brand really"

"Crystal!" I scream. It was the only way to get her off the phone.

"Hold on," She takes a moment to look at me. "What?"

"Do you mind I'm busy."

"No not at all." Putting a lot of empasis on her next word she says, "So like I was saying Kate I'll have the money for you when you drop them off, and could you please throw in some rocky road peanut butter ice cre..."

I had enough so I walked over to her, and ended the call. Crystal was piping hot with anger. Mainly because she didn't get to finish her sentence, and she won't be getting her ice cream. With that she got up, and went right back into her room. I don't understand why she couldn't just stay in her room with all of that, but no she comes into the kitchen dining area just to provoke me.

I can't ever imagine studing in my room because my desk isn't as big as my countertop. I mean who wouldn't want to study on a wide glossy surface that's grey with specks of gold and green in it. Its absolutely amazing if you ask me. I feel comfortable there when I sit and read which is exactly why I study there right before a big exam.

Crystal doesn't understand the quality of education. She's always about parties and for the past week she's been bugging me to go come with her to an opening of some club in down town. I don't know why she didn't just ask Kate. She knows that I just don't party anymore. All parties are is just a bunch of people jumping, screaming, with music blasting and gossiping. That's not really what I'm into anymore. Not to mention I get enough of that with Crystal.

My exam starts tomorrow at 1pm. So I figured I'd already done enough studying, and that I should take a piping hot bubble bath, and head straight to bed. So I got up from the kitchen counter closing my books, and grabbing them so I can put them on the dresser in my room. With all that weight I didn't even notice my extention cord on the ground that Crystal had running out of my room into her room. Just as I walk in I trip over it causing me to plummet extremely hard onto the carpet of my floor with my books scattered all over it. I felt myself get high off of embarrassment, and anger especially when I realized my notes were all messed up. So I went over to Crystal's room to give her a piece of my mind only after I dusted myself off first of course.

"CRYSTAL!!!!!" I yell while banging on her door. "Why the hell were you in my room!"

She opened the door. "I didnt have enough plug-in stations so I borrowed your extention cord to blow dry my hair."

"When did you find the time to do that."

"When you were studying of course," she said while unplugging her hair dryer from the extention cord. "I didn't want to bother you while you were studying so I just grabbed it myself and switched my blow dryer to silent. After all I didn't need you unplugging it becaue it was too loud."

"What the hell are you blow drying your hair for. We don't do anything on Friday nights." I say with fury in my eyes.

"I'm blow drying my hair because we are going to the opening of RASHÉS. You know the club..."

Cutting her off I continue, "What do you mean we?"

"Oh yeah because I'm not going to be getting my peanut butter ice cream we will be going," she says while looking into the mirrior fixing her make up.

"And becides it wouldn't kill you to get out all you've been doing is studying and its been a while. After Josh and you ended you didn't really go out much so tonight is about you Kim."

Sometimes I hate crystal but she's right. It wouldn't kill me to go out just this one night. Crystal might be wild but I'm wilder.

"Fine but only because I want to."

Handing me back my extention cord she starts up again, "Well what are you waiting for RASHÉS opens in 1 hour so get ready."

"Don't rush me. You had all day to get ready, and who even goes to the club the exact time it opens."

"I'll call a cab when you're done."

"Kk." I said while entering my room with the extention cord that began this whole mess of my room. I wrapped it up neatly unplugging it from my wall, and placing right back in my closet where it belongs. My notes, and books were still scattered so I organized them as neatly as before, and piled them on top of my dresser.

Now that that's done it's time for me to take that bath I've been longing for.
I head over to the bathroom, and run the water in the bath tub. This will take a while so I go over to my room to grab my towel, and my phone. I might as well do a facial too. With that decided I go right back over to the bathroom, and reach into the mirror cabinet to grab my mint green clay mask from Loréal. Now that I think about it I'm in the mood for a mud mask so I put my light mask back, and start applying my mud mask to my face. The water seems just about done with filling up the bath tub so I shut off the faucet, and headead over to the kitchen to cut some cucumbers for my eye lids because what would a mud mask be without any cucumbers dipped in some essential oils. I soaked my cucumbers in some essential lemon oil, and brought them with me to the bathroom after I finished cutting them. I poured my vanilla bubble mix in the tub, and tied up my hair into a bun before stepping into the tub. I crouched down, and got comfortable with my head against the edge of the tub while setting a timer for one hour. I then place my phone gently on my rug, and my two cucumbers against my eye lids. I started to relax finally. Relaxing, releasing the tension in my feet all the way to my neck with my hands lying on either side of the bath.

"Kim? Kim? KIMBERLY ALEXUS RENOLDS!" To the sound of that flinch out my position panting.

"Huh?" I hear my alarm going off in the distance.

"You've been in here for over an hour Kim."

"I didnt even realize. How much more time left?"

"Well its 12 so I guess there's alot of time left.... Oh and Kate's here." She says while pointing at Kate in the corner.

"Well give me a minute I have to hop in the shower."

"You're already in a bath." Kate says stepping into the bathroom.

"I know but the shower makes everything final." I say knitting my eyebrows together as Crystal starts talking.

"Well shut that alarm off before you do." she says while exiting the bathroom.

I looked down at the floor to gab my phone so I can shut off the alarm then at the water only to see that my bubbles were lessened into small suds, and that my skin became very wrinkly. I had faded from Peanut butter brown to a muddy grayish hue. At that point I knew it was time for me to get out of my bath. So I perched up on my hads that was laying on either side of the bath and lifted my self, taking one foot out at a time to step on my red velvet cotton rug.

I just love the way it feels on my feet. It feels like tiny troll hairs brushing my feet.

Removing my feet from the rug I turn around and pull the plug from the drain. I then reach for my phone on the mat and place it on the sink. Now making my way over to the shower, I slide open the door, and turned the faucet on to a warm setting, stepping in one foot at time. I bend down to pull the pin that allowes the water to spray down my back, and stood still for a moment so that the water can full coat my body. I then turn around to rinse the mud off of my face. Now that I'm all wet I grab my dove sensitive skin wash and squeeze what's left of it over my wash cloth. I lay the cloth over my chest before throwing the emty tube in the trash right next to the shower, and begin scrubbing every inch of my body.