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“Can you believe our new dorm?” Maggie’s eyes were shining as she looked at me. “You are never going to believe what the rooms look like!”
The three of us managed to drag my trunk down to my room. I was across the hall from Harper and two doors down from Maggie, so I was feeling really happy about where I would be living, but that was before Amelia and her harpies came marching down the hall.
They had tight lips and none of them spoke to me, but my heart sank when Amelia went into one room next to me and Kelly went into the one on the other side.
“Are you serious? I’m surrounded by the two bitches of Taylor Prep.” My voice was quiet, but both of my friends heard me and linked their arms through mine to pull me back into my room.
“We can worry about them later, Rose, but right now just check out your room!” Harper’s voice was a squeal and I ripped my eyes away from my door to pay attention to my space. We’d brought my trunk in here, but I hadn’t really looked around. Now, though, I wondered how in the world I had managed to tear my eyes away from my room in the first place.
Most importantly was that it had a door not only to the bathroom, but also to the hall. I grinned at my friends and shut and locked it behind me. Knowing that the harpies couldn’t enter my room whenever they wanted to made me feel much safer. Besides that, though, the room was huge. It had a vaulted ceiling and floor to ceiling windows that looked out on the woods. Soft curtains hung by the window, and I immediately walked over to open it to get a breeze.
I ran my hand along the edge of the window looking for a latch but couldn’t find one. Confused, I turned back to my friends. “It doesn’t open?”
Maggie laughed. “Not a chance. You think that they want to risk us sneaking out in the middle of the night? They’re just huge panes of glass and you can’t get out.”
Huge panes of glass or not, they afforded me an incredible view of the quad and I knew that I’d be leaving my curtains open as much as possible.
An enormous chandelier hung from the ceiling. Fluffy white throw rugs on the floor would feel amazing under my feet in the morning, and the four-poster bed was huge, with pillows, a soft cover, and extra blankets for snuggling on cold nights. In the bathroom there was a claw foot tub and incredible white and gold tile.
In short, it was the nicest room I’d ever been in. “Are you sure that I get to live here all year long?” I asked my friends, slowly turning in a circle. “Because this is seriously amazing. Is this what your rooms look like too?”
Maggie giggled and sat down on my bed. “Pretty much, but my rugs and covers are all pink, and Harper’s are gold. I think they went with really soft colors for the girls. Wish we could see what the boys rooms looked like.”
Yeah, I did, too. Glancing up, I wondered who was right above me, and, more importantly, where exactly all of my rogues were. It sucked that we were all so close together but still far enough apart that I’d never get to see their rooms.
“I had no idea that seniors got such nice rooms.” There was even a huge desk tucked in the corner of my room. As soon as I had big projects to work on I would pull it out so that it was in front of the window and I could look outside while I was studying. “It’s dreamy, isn’t it?”
“It is,” Harper agreed, sitting next to Maggie and patting the bed for me to come sit down. “But we don’t want to talk about our rooms, Rose. We want to talk about why in the world the rogues came to bring you to school today and I wasn’t allowed to!”
I grinned and launched myself to land between my two best friends. Immediately, we all stretched out on the bed, staring up at the chandelier. “Well, you’ll never believe it. It was amazing, you guys. They came to get me just because they wanted to spend some alone time with me and talk about last year.”
“You mean how they weren’t super nice to you, but by the end of the year they were all trying to get in your pants?” Maggie was laughing while she asked the question, but it was obvious that she was still partly serious.
I smacked her with a pillow. “Yeah, pretty much. So we all talked, just one-on-one and figured everything out. We’re all on the same page now, guys, so you don’t have to worry, okay?” Shrugging my shoulder, I tried to play it off as no big deal.
It wasn’t, not to me. I wasn’t sure what my friends would say, but I didn’t want them to worry about me. The rogues and I…well we understood each other. Not many people would be able to see how much they cared for me, but I did.
They feel terrible,” I say, wanting to explain it more to my friends. “I don’t know how to make it make sense, but it’s like we all have this connection. I’ve never felt like this about anyone before.”
Harper propped herself up on her elbow to look at me. “How does it work, though? I’m sorry, I’m just curious because…I mean, for me…one guy is a lot of work, so I can’t even imagine three. But don’t get they jealous of each other? And how do you make sure they all get the time they need from you?”
Not having enough time for my rogues was definitely something that was I a little nervous about, but so far, I’d managed to balance everything. The thing that made it all work the best was that they all wanted this as badly as I did, which meant that we were all willing to work hard and make some sacrifices. I explained this to my friends, who just nodded.
“So you don’t have a favorite, then?” Maggie sat up as she asked the question, stretching.
“Not a chance.” The words were out of my mouth before I’d even had a chance to consider them. “No favorites, nope. They’re all so different. Like, okay.” I tapped my fingers on my thigh while I thought about how to explain everything. “Kaleb is so kind and thoughtful. He’s the most gentle one. And Jackie always makes me laugh, no matter what’s going on. He’s so funny and can always look on the bright side of things.” I paused for a moment, trying to gather my thoughts about Brett.
“And Brett?” Harper elbowed me in the arm. “What about him?”
“Brett and I go so far back that it’s almost impossible to explain or describe what we have. There’s this passion there that I’ve never felt with anyone ever before, but there’s also this incredible level of comfort because we know each other.” I felt like I was getting all of the words wrong, and I wasn’t sure if my friends understood, but I was doing my best. Taking a deep breath, I continued. “Brett knows my soul, and I know his. I don’t know how else to put it, really.”
They were both silent for a moment and I was sure that I’d said or done something wrong, but then Harper grabbed my hand. “That is the most beautiful thing that you can say about someone.”
I was nervous, but I forced myself to look at my friend. Her eyes were bright but she had tears glimmering in the corners. “You really think so? I just don’t know how to put into words what Brett and I have. It’s so difficult at times, but sometimes it feels so easy. It’s like we’re on two different sides of the world but we’re pulled together. We’re magnets, you guys, but I think we’re finally learning how to attract each other, not repel each other. And, honestly, I wouldn’t have it any other way.”
Maggie grabbed my other hand. “Rose, seriously. If anyone can make it work with the three of them, it’s you. I don’t know what the four of you have, but it’s incredible. They love you more than I’ve ever seen anyone love another person. We just wanted to make sure that you were okay.”
“I am. I’m better than okay, you guys. In fact, I think that it’s all going to work out. I have you two, and you have Woods and Everett. I also have the rogues, and knowing that they are all on my side is what I need to make sure that I can handle anything this year throws at me, okay? It’s all going to be fine.”
