Beneath The Deep

Prologue

My alarm went off for the third time making me groan in annoyance as I reached under my pillow to grab it and hit snooze again.

"I swear to God Tina if you hit snooze on your phone and allow it to alarm again I will come over there and break your phone in half with my bare hands."

The voice of my roommate penetrated my brain making me snort. "Yeah right. You couldn't break a pen if you wanted to so shush."

I opened my eyes paying full attention to her with sleep still clouding my vision but with a full grin on my face just as she jumped out from under her blanket and leaped across the room then landed on top of me.

I grunted then screamed playfully as she began to search for my phone under my pillows.

"You wanna bet?" She asked in her Southern Alabama drawl. "Let me have it then."

I laughed and grabbed ahold of my phone quickly trying to get it out of her reach.

"You can break it if you can catch it SHORTY!"

I made sure I added emphasis to the last word just to rub it in a bit more to put her on edge.

My amazing roommate and bestfriend Allison.

She was petite and short frame and there was nothing she hated more than when people teased her about it which I happened to do more than often because she was my bestfriend and that's what bestfriend do. She was also white and extremely pale which made her look almost sickly some times but I'm guessing that's a norm for most white people.

Just saying.

Despite all of this she was literally one of the most prettiest persons I've ever seen. And that's saying something considering the fact that I was black.

And yes, I'm a black girl with a white girl as a bestfriend.

We met when my family and I moved to Alabama a few months before we started college two years ago. It was my first day at the same high-school she was attending when some guys had tried to flirt with me but I had already began to deal with them accordingly.

We spoke to each other every day after that. She stood up for me on many occasions, especially when I found myself in similar situations. It was almost like a fly to food.

The guys all started flirting with me as if I was the new Micheal Jackson or the new Prince. I became one of the most popular individuals in the school. Everyone wanted to talk to me or hangout or sit next to me.

I would say it was because I was a pretty light-skinned girl from the UK with my sexy British accent and my tall, skinny frame; but I have a pretty bubbly and confident personality so maybe it was that.

Nope it was definitely my physical appearance.

She glared at me before reaching for my armpits and tickling th making me squeal with giggles

"OH MY G-" I gasped as she moved down to my ribs section where she dug her fingertips into and proceeded to tickle the life out of me.

"PLEASE STO-, I'LL LET YOU H-HAV-E I-IT!" I wheezed as I tried to talk her in to stopping which she did while glaring at me playfully as she kept her hands over my ribs.

"I didn't hear you clearly. Wanna repeat that for me?"

I nodded quickly trying to catch my breath inhaling deeply through my nose and exhaling through my mouth. "Yes Alli. You can take my phone and break it if you want to."

I held it up in front of her making her smirk. "See th at wasn't so hard now was it?"

I rolled my eyes as she pushed my phone back towards me then got up from my bed.

"Nevermind that." She stated while retrieving the pillows that had fell from my bed during her tickling session then throwing them onto my bed before pausing and sniffing at her fingertips.

"Go take a shower because you stink."

I gasped in fake horror before giving her the finger to which she chuckled and shook her head then returned to her bed.

Smiling I went into the washroom where I stripped and took a ten minutes shower then returned to the room where I lotioned my skin with the pure cocoa butter I always have with me, then changed into a pair of black jeans and a white T-shirt.

Allison seemed to already be asleep because she wasn't making a sound. I swear I've never seen a college student that actually wakes up early or enjoy waking up early in the mornings.

At the same time my phone begun to ring from my bed where I had left it. A quick glance at the screen I saw Robin, my boyfriend name flashed across the screen.

I swipped the screen to answer the call.

"Good morning baby girl," He almost screamed into the phone making giggle.

"Pleasant good morning to you Robin...and it is morning so no need to be so loud."

He scoffed, "Of course but it's a beautiful morning! It's 8:45 and the sun is already up shinning in it's full glory, the birds are chirping, the wind is blowing lightly and-"

"Holy shit!" I exclaimed cutting him off then rushed to slip on a pair of socks followed by my banged up pair of black and white converse while holding the phone against my ears with my shoulder.

"Calm down babe. What's the rush and why did you have to cut off my morning motivational speech?"

I grabbed my keys and charger from the small table beside my bed forcing them into my jeans pocket.

"I'm gonna be so late! I'm supposed to meet up with the girls for breakfast this morning before heading to class."

"Let me guess, Jessie and Allison?"

I shook my head forgetting that he couldn't see me. "Not Allison.  She actually slept in her own bed last night so she's here." I chuckled quietly as I did a once over scan of the room to make sure I wasn't leaving anything behind.

"I heard that Athena!" I heard a low growl gtom under Allison's blankets making me laugh.

"She said morning anyway," I told him.  He laughed knowing fully well that she didn't but went along with it anyway and asked me to put the phone on speaker then move close to her bed.

I followed his instructions and he took a deep breath.  "GOOD MORNING SUNNY ALLI!"

"Fuck you both," came her muffled reply making us both chuckle before I ended the call with a small 'love you' to which he replied to by repeating the exact words making me smile before grabbing my knapsack.

Shouting a quick goodbye to Allison to which I receive a grunt from under her blankets where she was probably half asleep already , I rushed out of the room and down to the almost empty parking lot of the campus to my mini red scooter gifted to me by my father as my last birthday gift.

I grabbed the helmet that was attached around the mirror and attempted to put it on my head but  something heavier came down on my head before I could do this immediately causing a wave a nausea and dizziness.

Before I could turn around fully to see what was happening, I slumped to the gravel beneath my feet as I succumbed to the darkness that blanketed my senses.