Roommates by Ashley Love

Author:Ashley Love [Love, Ashley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-10-16T21:00:00+00:00

14

On Sunday I don't wake up to my alarm. On Sunday I wake to someone gently shaking my shoulders, while my face is pressed against the inside of a book, bending one of the pages. It takes me a long, disoriented moment to realize who I am, where I am, and who's touching me

"Aubrey," Blake says softly. "Your alarm went off half an hour ago. I don't think you meant to fall asleep."

I blearily look up at him, and then I sneeze. It's the sneeze that wakes me up. I only just have time to cover my face before it happens, and it seems to rattle my entire brain, which feels like it weighs ten times the amount it had yesterday. Yesterday, when I'd fallen asleep in the middle of my work. I remember shutting my eyes at four for just a second and—

"No," I moan. "No, no..." My eyes cut to the alarm clock, reading the blinking 9:13. "I'm late. I'm fucking late. I need to..." I jump up, pushing Blake out of the way as I gather my things. "Fuck, how did I fall asleep?"

"You look exhausted," Blake says gently. He puts a hand on my shoulder, stilling me. "I think you should go back to bed."

"Go back to bed," I repeat. "Yeah, sure, that's exactly what I'm going to do." I roll my eyes and flit across the room, grabbing my bag. I stuff everything inside it. "I don't have a choice. I know that you don't give a fuck about this shit, but some of us can't just coast by because we're good at throwing a ball or something. Some of us actually have to work, Blake, okay? I know it must be fucking awesome in your world where you can just sleep in all day and not do anything, but I can't—"

Blake gets back into his bed, pulls the blankets over himself, and turns his back to me without a word.

I hurry to pull a hat on over my horrible-looking hair, and then I'm running out the door, not sparring a single look back at him. When I get to the library I'm breathless and sweating, even if it's freezing outside. I only have time to lift my hand in a short wave for Nancy before I'm hurrying through the room, heading for the tables at the back.

The whole group is there already, bent over books and papers and the works. I skid to a halt, bag slipping off my shoulder, and they all look up at me before the first one cracks, letting out a smothered laugh. And then they're all laughing, looking at me like I'm crazy.

"Christ," one of them says. "Did you really try to do all that work last night?"

"We were joking, Aubrey!" another one says. "No one actually expected you to do all that."

"We thought you'd realize," Lisa adds, the only one who looks a little guilty. "Didn't think you'd actually attempt it."

I blink at them. "W-what?"

"We have until next week," Lisa explains.

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