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It's midday—about 1pm— yet Multi just woke up. Head already pounding with a headache as Ewron barged into his and Nexe's shared dorm.
Multi sat up immediately when Ewron slammed the door open. He looks over to his left towards Nexe, who is sitting in his bed on his phone messing with his hoodie strings.
Head in his hands as he pushes his palms into his eyes, Ewron yelling “WAKE UPP” as he walks towards Nexe.
It had been a long fucking night. He spent almost 10 hours in classrooms, mostly the lab, and then got sent back to his dorm around 12am last night.
Now here Ewron is, all cheery and loud, talking about some party the Dutchies are hosting at their frat. Nexe is nodding his head while Ewron's booming voice fills the room—and the hallway; he still hadn’t gotten into the habit of closing the door behind him.
Multi finally looks over at Ewron, eyes heavy with bags.
“Bro, what the fuck are you doing,” he asks, deadpanned look on his face as he stares at Ewron.
“Talking about Holland's party later!” he says smiling, smile not fully reaching his eyes. “Katie told me about it.”
Now that piqued his interest.
“Come onn, come with us!”
“Yeah, It’ll be fun!” Nexe pitches in.
He thinks for a moment.
Yeah fuck it, whos he to say no to a party?
He plays it off cool.
“Yeah whatever man, I'll go.” Multi says, voice still grainy with sleep.
“Ah, it's a miracle, what we’ve been dreaming of, Multi coming to this party with us” Ewron teases sarcastically.
He hears Nexe's raspy laugh from beside Ewron.
Multi just rolls his eyes and groans, sliding fully back into his covers and turning over.
The creak of Nexus bed is heard as Ewron pushes himself off of it. They mutter to each other, giggling as they leave the room.
He rests for a moment before deciding to get dressed, some black jorts with black vans and a baggy white long sleeve.
After finishing up in the bathroom—brushing his teeth and messing with his hair—he walks to his bed again, grabbing his phone off of his table beside his bed.
@1andonlykatieb: heyyy!! u wanna come to dons party tn?
@1andonlykatieb: its at holland
@1andonlykatieb: the pre-game is at like 5 or maybe 7?
@1andonlykatieb: maybe 6 idk
@1andonlykatieb: if u wanna come
@1andonlykatieb: actual party probs starts at 9
@1andonlykatieb: show up if u wanna, dont if u dont wanna
@1andonlykatieb: its chill
He hadn’t realized he was smiling at the messages until he decided to respond, smile immediately dropping.
@yng_multii: ewron told me just now
@yng_multii: yeah ill go
@yng_multii: thanks
@1andonlykatieb: cool!! see u there!!
Putting his phone in his pocket, he checks if he has everything and then leaves his dorm.
He decides today that he won’t do any lab stuff today, last night he did a shit ton and thought it would be nice to have a “day off.”
Walks down the hall to Graf and Ewron's dorm, their door wide open. Standing in the doorway he sees Nexe, Quackity, and Roier all in the room as well.
As soon as Quackity sees him, he beams.
“John Multiii, hey dude whats up,” Quackity says as he walks towards Multi with open arms. As Quackity brings attention to Multi, Roier also looks up and grins at him.
“Yooo man,” also trying to go in for a hug.
Multi groans loudly as they both hug him (or attempt to). He pushes them away immediately, both of them laughing as they know just how to annoy the shit out of him.
Multi looks past them to Ewron and Graf, who are on the floor. Next to them is a broken bed, the mattress leans against the wall and the wood slats are broken in half.
“What the fuck happened?” Multi says, holding back a laugh, he thinks he already knows—Ewrons fatass jumped on the bed or some dumb shit.
Graf looks up at him. “Ewron broke his bed,” he has a big smile on his face, also holding back a laugh.
Ewron looks at both their faces, an unimpressed look on his face.
“Bro shut up.”
Everyone—except Ewron—snickers.
“Multi are you going to the party?” Quackity looks at him.
“Uh yeah, I am,” he says, slightly shrugging.
“We were gonna go pick up some shit for the party after this, wanna come?” Roier offers.
“Nah, I’m good.”
“Ok guys, see u there then,” Quackity and Roier both walk to the doorway, when Multi moves out of the way, they both bow as goodbye just to tease them. Then they run off giggling and Multi sighs, but there's a smile on his face.
He walks to Graf's desk (Ewron has too much shit on his) and sits on his chair, twirling as he leans in it. Nexe, who is sitting on Graf's bed, is watching what Graf and Ewron are doing, with a smile on his face.
Ewron yells “KURWA” as he messes up another screw and Graf sighs. Nexe is laughing at their struggle, Multi joining in with his teasing.
They talk for a while as new, metal slats are being built, laughing and teasing after multiple failures.
It’s around 3pm when they finish, all of them agreeing it took way too fucking long to do that, and they decide to go eat.
Walking out of the dorms, Multi is walking next to Nexe, behind Ewron and Graf.
He hears a loud “Don!!” followed by a familiar laugh coming from his left. He looks over to see Katie and Don, Katie chasing after Don.
He stares. Specifically at Katie, her golden hair lightly blowing as she stops to catch her breath. She looks up and waves, a big smile on her face. She then starts running towards Don again, and he looks away.
Though when his gaze returns forward, he sees Ewron still staring at her. Something sprouts in the back of his mind, a feeling, but he pushes it back.
He plays it off by shoving Ewron lightly, snapping him out of his trance.
“Bro you're so slow, hurry up,” Multi says grinning.
Ewron rolls his eyes, annoyed, like Multi just interrupted important thoughts that could change lives.
They make it to the university center and Ewron opens up his phone to make a pickup order at one of the simple sandwich places.
Nexe and Graf decide to stay at the lounge in the middle of the center, leaving Multi and Ewron to go get the food.
While on the way to the store, Katie, Don, and Ash walk by them. Ash is on his phone while Katie and Don debate about where they should eat.
The three don't spare them a glance but both stare for a bit. Multi realizes and looks to Ewron, who is already looking at him with a devious ass grin.
Multi just looks forward and continues walking, not waiting up for Ewron. Ewron laughs from behind him, running up to him and shoving him lightly.
Their faces both have an embarrassed look, lightly red as it seems they both knew what the other was thinking.
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Ewron looks up from where he was looking at his phone, a voice he would know anywhere blended with another. He sees Ash, Don, and Katie walk by, not even looking at him as they keep on talking.
He stares for longer than he should, wishing he was walking next to Katie instead of Multi right now. He looks over a bit, seeing Multi also staring at the trio for a moment.
He stares directly at Multi, knowingly. Ewron has a huge grin plastered on his face and Multi turns back, eventually making eye contact with him.
He looks away after a few seconds and keeps on walking—almost like the period of eye contact was them sharing and connecting thoughts.
Ewron laughs as he knows what both of them are thinking, and he thinks Multi does too. He runs up to him and leans his arm on Multi's shoulder as they walk. He glances at Multi and sees his ears are a little red. He knows his face is probably a bit red too, he's gotten caught practically yearning for Katie two times now..
After a bit more walking and awkward silence, they finally get to the shop and pick up their food. On their way back, they meet Nexe and Graf halfway, collectively deciding to go outside to eat.
They sit at a picnic table outside— the weather warm and sunny, skies a nice blue dashed with clouds.
They talk for a while, Ewron mostly, because he scarfed down his sandwich immediately after he sat down.
They're all on their phones as their hangout winds down—it being around 6—each of them getting a notification for Katie's Instagram story.
Text saying: “AYYYY PARTY @ 9 PREGAMING TIME” with a blurry picture of her taking a shot.
They all look up, sharing a knowing glance. They start to pack up and run straight back to their dorms.
All four of them run back to their dorms to go change and get some drinks.
Multi and Nexe changed in a rush, Multi wearing black jeans, a black shirt, a striped grey and black zip-up, a simple back belt and a layered studded one, and keeping his converse on.
Nexe is wearing a black graphic hoodie with some black jorts and vans.
They walked out of their dorm after almost an hour of getting ready, having to brush their teeth, fix their hair, and obviously change their clothes—well, Nexe sat around for the most part waiting for Multi to pick an outfit and put on some eye makeup.
Both on their phones as they walked out of their dorm, mentally preparing themselves for the bullshit alcohol Ewron has.
When they got inside Ewron's drink stash was all lined up on his bed, a variety of different alcohols from Mexican to Polish.
Ewron had also changed, he had put a bit of eye makeup on and was wearing camo jorts with a black graphic tee and white long sleeve layered underneath.
Ewron looks up at them, away from his stash. Multi looks away from his phone, looking at Ewron's stash and then to the stupid grin on his face.
“How the fuck has inspection not caught you?” Showing an unimpressed look.
Ewron just shrugs then looks back, grabbing a bottle and passing it to him.
“Just drink dude, did you see Katie? She was getting lit.”
Multi grabs it and narrows his eyes at him, he always brings up Katie any chance he gets.
Nexe speaks up, still looking at his phone, "It's just pre-game bro, we can get drunk at the party.”
Multi agrees in his head. Opening the bottle and wiping off the top, he grimaces as he glances at Ewron.
He takes a couple sips and passes it to Nexe, who takes two swigs before passing it to Ewron. Ewron was staring dead-panned, he looked away and got up.
“Lame.”
Multi rolls his eyes.
“Dont get too drunk Ewron, how will you talk to Katie like that?” Nexe teases as he smirks.
Multi whips his head to him. The gross feeling in the depths of his body resurfacing.
“Omajgad..kurwa dumbass..” Ewron says as he drags his hands across his face, his ears slightly red again. Nexe snickers.
Multi looks over to Graf, who hasn’t said a word this entire time—hes laying in his bed and smiling at his phone. Multi deduces that he's probably texting Juan and looks back, at least he has a happy…uh…situationship.
“C’mon, let's go guys it's almost time to party,” Nexe says, still smirking, Multi walks out first, still slightly annoyed.
As they get to the frat house Multi hears “Dont Stop the Party” by Pitbull already playing as he walks closer to the house.
When they get inside they split up immediately. The party filled with people even though it just started. Ewron running off somewhere—probably the bar, Nexe and Graf going to play pool. He starts navigating his way through the crowd of students, looking for a place to sit. While he's weaving through people, he feels a hand grab his arm. He turns around to see a familiar pretty face.
“Hi Multi!! You came!” Katie says with a cheery smile. He starts smiling too, her presence shining bright, enough to make anyone feel happy.
“Yeah I did! I was hoping I’d see you!” He says, then immediately regretting it in his mind, though Katie doesn’t seem to think of it deeply. Holding her drink in one and his hand in the other, she just smirks and brings them to a somewhat empty spot in the house. His face blushes a tinge of red as she holds his hand.
They stop and stand in a small space near a corner of the house, opposite from the entrance. The mix of colored lights illuminating her face, making her look even more attractive.
“I really like your outfit!” She yells over the loud music.
“Thanks!” He looks at hers—shes wearing a pink, cropped, boxy tee with the number “22” on it with some white shoes, low blue baggy jeans and a black belt.
“I like yours too!” He says, still smiling like an idiot. It seems those couple swigs of alcohol from before are finally settling in his body.
“Have you gotten any drinks?” Katie says loudly, still holding hers.
“No, only from pre-game like an hour ago!” He yells, moving a bit closer as he sees her leaning in to hear him.
“Here! You can have the rest of mine, I’ve only taken like a sip and I feel it hitting already!” She laughs a little and offers it to him.
Smiling, he reaches his hand out and takes it, their fingers brushing as he grabs the glass.
He downs it in a couple gulps, the bitter, tangy taste lingering on his tongue.
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As soon as the door opens for them Ewron walks inside, heading straight for the bar, or more so the assortment of drinks on the kitchen island. He downs a Buzzball and a couple shots, the thrilling taste of the alcohol biting his tongue.
He stands by the kitchen, Shappo coming up to talk to him. Shappo immediately starts talking some random bullshit and Ewron just listens, the buzz of alcohol settling in his stomach. He looks around, hoping to see a familiar pink color-schemed girl in the sea of people.
He looks past Shappo to see Katie, his smile widening on his face. He walks away from Shappo, not caring about the rest of the conversation. As he sees more of Katie he sees..Multi?
The feeling of jealousy creeps back up into him. That should be him talking to Katie. It should be Katie offering her drink to HIM. He’s desperate for her attention, craving it, yearning for her.
He decides to intervene, walking up to them.
“Katie could we talk?” Smile fake on his face, his eyes narrowed but the smile was not fully reaching there.
They look over at him. Multi has a blank expression on his face but Ewron can see he's hiding, holding back what he really thinks and feels. Katie looks over and tilts her head slightly, confused look on her face.
“Sure?”
“Lets go somewhere else, Kaska” He narrows his eyes at Multi as he grabs her wrist and starts walking them away.
He looks back one more time, grinning as he sees a stern look on Multi's face.
He brings them to a room somewhere in the house, closing the door.
Katie looks around awkwardly.
“So uh, what did you need?” She says.
He looks at her pathetically and she holds back a grin.
“Katie..” he whines, “I thought we were besties..why didn’t you come see me when I arrived?” he pouts, walking closer to her.
She touches the bun at the back of her head, having really no excuse.
She huffs out a breath and crosses her arms, “Ewron, you're not the only person in my life, you know?”
He sputters, “B-b-but we’re besties!! I thought you would’ve at least said hi!”
She shakes her head lightly, sighing, “I think you're thinking of it too much, I was literally just talking to Multi, I see you basically every day. How is this one different?” she says, blank expression on her face except for a slight eyebrow raise and head tilt.
He has nothing to say to that. He really has no reason. Maybe its because he wants all if her attention to himself. Even though Multi is a close friend of his, and he has multiple friends other than Katie, then why is he so caught up with her?
They look to the door as the handle starts to move, the door opens and they see Roier.
His eyes land on Ewron first, “Hey man! I thought I saw you go in here! We’re doing a keg stand, wanna join?” He asks then looks over to Katie, confused.
“Did I interrupt something?” He looks between the two of them.
“No! Not at all! We were just finishing our conversation, right Ewron?” She doesn't even give him time to answer as she walks past Roier through the doorway.
They both stare at her as she leaves.
“Okay! Bye Katie see you later,” Roier says as she brushes past him.
Roier looks back to him.
Ewron just shrugs, trying to play it off but hes so obviously tense.
“C’mon! Lets go kurwa pendejo” Roier says smiling, clapping once as he turns around and walks into the crowd of people.
Ewron stands there for a moment, he sighs. Then he leaves and also goes into the crowd. He's near the stand next to Roier and a couple others from the North. But he looks around, scouring the large room for Katie again.
He finally sees her at a table. She's with Multi again, who is nodding and laughing while listening to her.
He can’t help but think—know that that should be him.
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