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Some just followed the lead without asking questions, and other students approached the roses as if we hadn’t been warned not to do so.
“Alaric and Azrael?” I wonder.
“Azrael seemed real,” Blair admits. “Alaric though… I’m not sure?”
I slowly nod while I take one more glance around.
“Let’s end this,” I offer with a look of determination.
“Hope this means you’re my roommate,” she replies and sweetly smiles. “Nice to be around someone who kind of gets me. Most people assume I’m stupid or something. I guess it’s the golden hair or that I look like a Barbie doll.”
“I don’t think you’re stupid.”Far from it.“I think people simply don’t want to acknowledge you can potentially be smarter than them. Assumptions only feed egos. It doesn’t help them hide what they lack and fear others will discover with one glance.”
“You’re really knowledgeable.”
“I try to be,” I admit. “Frankly, I know a lot of wise shit from books. Well, that and dark fantasy, but don’t tell my parents that. They would kill me if they knew the dark smut I read.”
Now she’s laughing, and the whimsical sound makes me feel alive in an abandoned place of hopelessness.
“Monster smut is down my alleyway.”
“Shut up!”
We begin walking as we keep on high alert of our surroundings. I’m a bit giddy to meet someone who enjoys the same reading genres I do.
Especially smutty romances that make me wish my sex life was a lot more eventful than a journey through the Sahara Desert.
It makes confronting something frightening a tad easier to swallow down.
“Do you know how hard it is to hide all my monster dildos in my luggage and not be caught during security check?”
“Now, how did you do that?” I’m curious because it was a bit of a mission to hide my lovely collection of vibrators. “I kind of made mine into snakes.”
She’s completely shocked by my words.
“S-Snakes?”
“My precious pets,” I say the words as if I’m speaking another language that has a romanticized tone to it. “My security check associate was female. One look and she said, ‘fuck this shit’ and let me through.”
“My security check was a female, too,” Blair admits with a giggle. “She looked at the magic X-ray machine, then back at me while I gave her the sweetest smile, then let me through.”
“No sins were committed,” I declared with a snicker. “Maybe it doesn’t hurt to look like a Barbie,” I suggest with a wink. “Do you dress like that because it’s your style?”
“Sort of,” she admits. “I used to dress kind of like you do. The problem with that is it draws attention to me from the wrong element.”
“Too seductive?” I inquire.
“Yes,” she confesses, but there’s a dose of mystery in her eyes, even at a side glance. “It brought negative attention from those far too close to home.”
The way my lips set in a frown makes her smirk as she shifts her gaze to see my knowledgeable eyes.
“Sucks when you’re the younger sibling, huh?” she whispers. “You’re sometimes pushed under the rug in this world. Even if you’re desperate to be heard.”
“Blair…”
I secretly make a vow to kill her brother… by accident, of course.
“Is N.M.U. like an escape?” I dare to ask.
