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bear shit in the woods and wipe his ass with a rabbit?” Fresh asked. “You already know! We there, joe.”
    “I don’t know if I’ma be able to make it,” I said. “I don’t wanna be all sluggish on our first day of class. You know I gotta buckle down this semester. Plus, my money is kinda funny. So…”
    “So you’ll have your ass ready by ten, so we can get in for free!” Fresh said. “You got the rest of the semester to study and worry about class.”
    “You got a point there,” I said, still weighing my options. “But you know me. I ain’t really a morning person as it is, blood.”
    “That’s why I’m glad this party is at night! I don’t care if you miss every other party this year, you know we gotta make this one. It’s the first party of the year!”
    I hadn’t even been on campus for a week, and already Iwas going back on the promise I’d made to myself before I came back to campus—to get my priorities together, and put school first. Just when I thought I could resist the temptation, I succumbed to it.
    “Well, since you put it that way, I guess I better find something to wear,” I said. “But I’ll tell you right now, the only way I’m going is if we catch a ride. I need to check with Lawry and see if he’s driving, because catching the shuttle is what I ain’t gon’ do! You remember what happened last semester, when the shuttle left us and we had to walk home from the club.”
    “Nigga, I’ll walk to the club I have to,” Fresh said. “You see the girl on the front of the flyer?”
    “She is fine,” I said. “Yeah, fools are probably gonna be going dumb up in that thang! I already know there’s gonna be hella breezies there. Plus, it says you get in free before eleven-thirty, with this flyer.”
    “There you have it,” he said, dapping me up and opening the door. “Hold on to that. We need to get out there early, ’cause I damn sure ain’t tryna pay, either. I’ll see you at the meeting later tonight.”
    “Fa sho!” I said. “I’ma try to get a nap in first, though.”
     
    Timothy shook me out of my slumber.
    “Hurry and get yourself together so we can get to this meeting,” he said. “We’ve only got five minutes, and I’m not trying to be late. Especially not after the way Varnelius chewed you out for being tardy to the meeting last semester.”
    “I know right,” I said, wiping sleep from the corner of my eye. “I had forgot all about that.”
    “I’m gonna check my messages on MySpace one more time, while you get ready,” Timothy said.
    “You sure have been online a lot today,” I said. “You looking up some classes or something?”
    “No. Just doing a little chatting.”
    “Your dad started up some kind of Internet ministry or something?” I asked, sliding on my sweatpants.
    “Actually, I’m conversing with a love interest of mine.”
    “Whaaaat?” I asked excitedly. “A little cyber sex, huh? I guess everybody’s tryna get their willy wet these days!”
    “Oh, nonsense,” he said. “Amy doesn’t even participate in those type of activities. She’s a church girl.”
    “Amy, huh? Got you a little jungle fever there, Timmy?”
    “Jungle fever?” he asked, pressing the back of his hand up against his forehead. “I’m not running a temp.”
    “Oh my God!” I said. “You’ve never seen Jungle Fever, the movie?”
    Timothy just sat there, his fingers hovering over the keyboard, looking puzzled.
    “Aaaah, forget it! I meant to say, I didn’t know you liked to ski in your spare time.”
    “There aren’t any mountains in Atlanta,” Timothy said. “Well, there’s Stone Mountain, but it rarely ever gets any snow. I’ve never been skiing a day in my life.”
    “Timothy, if this roommate situation is gonna ever work out, you’re gonna need to learn some damn ebonics! How ’bout this one? I didn’t know you had a thing for pink toes.”
    “Pink toes. Pink toes. Pink toes,” he mumbled to himself. “Okay, I still don’t