LIOW Ch. 4

It's just about ten o'clock, and Abigail has finally made it back before Mrs. Nelson locked the front doors of the dormitory.

"I'm so sorry, I had to drive back to my parent's to pick something up- I'll make sure it doesn't happen again." She scurries to the entrance where Mrs. Nelson was standing.

"It's okay," She snickers, "Many students have almost been locked out, so you're not the first." She opens the door for Abigail.

"Have a good night Mrs. Nelson."

"You too. See you next week."

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Abigail was only a minute away from her dorm room, digging her eyes into her phone screen when she crashed into someone and made all of his belongings fall to the floor.

"Watch where you're going, dwarf." He sneers.

Abigail had noticed that he was the guy she saw in that restaurant a few days ago... But she had no clue that he would've been on campus.

"S-sorry" She stutters and watches as he aggressively picks up his folders.

"I don't think it'd hurt to pay more attention to where you're walking than your phone. You're gonna end up in the hospital if you keep doing that." He stands up and glares at her with no expression spread across his face, and Abigail stood frozen in place as she stared longingly at him while he walked away and readjusted his folders.

"What a dick." She scoffs.

"I heard that!" He shouts from down the hall.

Abigail mocked him and sneakily made faces at him.

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"He was so mean," She whines to Marissa.

"Well, what did you do?" She questions.

Abigail takes a quick sip of her lemonade before explaining, "I was walking to my dorm while I was texting Navaeh, and I bumped into him because I wasn't paying attention, and he was like, 'watch where you're going, you dwarf'. He called me a dwarf, Marissa. I was insulted."

She chuckles, "Well to be fair, you are really short. But you need to stop looking at your phone when you're walking, you're gonna get hurt one day."

"I know- I know. I'm just tired of being treated like that. Nineteen years old, and I still get picked on. It's stupid." She sighs in disappointment.

"You need to stand up for yourself. Stop letting people get away with it, it's just going to keep digging a hole in you."

"I'm trying my best. I mean, I'm in college now, and I'm an adult, so I need to learn how to be a confident woman."

"Next time he tries to insult you, trip him. Make him look stupid." She stares intensely at Abigail.

She laughs and then looks toward the clock on her nightstand, "Okay. Well, I got to go now. We need to hang out next weekend and get drunk. Just me and you, alright? And we're going Merry Stone Brewhouse."

"You're lucky I'm not working next weekend, but okay. I love you, goodnight."

"Love you, goodnight." She closes her laptop and sluggishly drags herself onto her bed, groaning.

She sits upright on the edge and reaches for her purse, grabbing her wallet from inside. She pulls out two dollar bills and leaves her room to get a snack from one of the vending machines on the bottom floor of the dormitory.

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"Hmmm," She hums to herself while she stares at a bag of Lays potato chips, then directs her eyes to a pack of beef jerky. She presses 'D4' and inserts one of her dollar bills, then presses A2 and inserts the other dollar.

As she approached the door of her room, she noticed that it was slightly ajar.

"Why are you in here? Get out." She opens the door and finds that the guy from earlier was lying on her bed, staring at the ceiling.

He sits up and stares at her longingly, then turns his focus toward her nightgown.

"What are you, a child?" He snickers.

She raises an eyebrow at him, "They're just clothes, it doesn't matter what I wear. Get off of my bed and get out, creep."

He shakes his head and smirks at her. He then stands up and slowly walks toward her, giving nothing but complete eye contact. "If you're going to give me attitude like that, don't expect me to not do this." He reaches for her neck and tightly pulls her in for a kiss, running his hands down toward her waist.

She finally forces her hands onto him and pushes him off, making him almost trample onto the floor. She slaps him across the face and stares at him with a frown, "What is wrong with you?"

He places a hand on his cheek and turns his focus toward her, "I saw you before, on that night you were having a party. I saw you looking at me when you didn't even notice." He explains.

"What does that have to do with you kissing me? I don't even know you, and you came into my room without me knowing. I can report this to Mrs. Nelson." She sneers and crosses her arms.

He moves his hand from his face and stares at Abigail with a tense expression, "I know that you like me. That's why you were looking at me. I just want to have a one-night stand."

"A one-night stand?" She raises her eyebrows, "Are you serious?".

"If you're not going to say no, then yes." He asserts.

Abigail stands in silence for a moment while looking at the ground, then looks toward her nightstand and grabs a condom from out of the drawer, placing it by the lamp, and returning back to where she was standing.

"Fine. But this is not what I had in mind."

He starts walking towards her again and stops just inches away from her, grabbing her chin and slightly points her direction toward him, making their gazes meet. "It's not what I had in mind either, but I think it's fair." He places a hand behind her neck and brushes a strand of her hair out of her eyes.

She slowly backs away from him, getting closer to the door, and locking it behind her. She stops and stares at him, waiting for him to make a move.

He steps toward her and grabs her by the waist, leading her to the bed, and taking her nightgown off after placing her down.

After they had both fallen asleep in the bed, the boy woke up and left as soon as he put his clothes back on without waking Abigail.