Emily's POV

"WAKE UP PUMPKIN!" someone yells. Oh god why cant I sleep peacefully for at least fourteen hours before any interruption.

"EMILY!" the voice comes again. I roll over, grumbling incoherently.

"We have to do it the hard way then." The voice that I have come to recognize as Luke's mutters. I pay no heed to him and continue snuggling into my blanket.

Oh how soft this blanket is. I wish I could marry it. I am seconds away from falling into the deep slumber again when I feel something heavy on me. I open my eyes squinting a little to see him lying on top of me. He isn't even trying to carry his weight, which is resulting in me getting squished under him.

"Wake up! Wake up! Wake up!" he chants over and over without moving his body from mine. I try to push him off but fail miserably seeing he weighs almost twice as me. This goes on for quite a while before I realize that I need oxygen to breathe.

"I'm awake! Let me breathe." I say squirming under him. He flips around quickly and places his arms on either side of my head, putting his weight on his elbows.

He dips in for a kiss. I kiss him back instantly but only a second later, he pulls away.

"As appealing as this position is, we are late, so get up and get ready." He says giving me another quick peck on the lips. He gets off of me and I get up dragging my feet towards the bathroom at a turtles pace. No, let me rephrase that, even a turtle could easily bypass me in my current pace.

"With that pace, pumpkin, I'm not sure how you'll reach class on time." Class? Today is a Tuesday. Classes don't start until noon, then why would I... oh crap. We have those big revision sessions and tests today. My eyes widen and I storm into the bathroom.

I brush my teeth quickly and take a shower at the speed of lightening. I come out the bathroom with my comb in my hand.

"How long until the classes start today?" I ask Luke while pulling my hair into a messy bun and grabbing my books and bag.

"We have about five minutes to reach class." He says, hurrying to pick up his own bag.

"WHAT?" I yell incredulously. Great. We both dash out the room and immediately break into a jog.

Ugh, why do classes have to be so fucking far?

I see many other students walking in a hurry to their respective classes. Guess nobody is used to get up so early. I take a look at my watch, 6:57 am, three minutes to reach class. Seriously? This is blasphemy. I mean, who the hell in the right mind would schedule classes for seven in the morning?

"Hey Ems!" I see Alex pull up beside me.

"You slept in too?" I ask him.

"Yeah. Look I wanted to apologize for yesterday." He says. I smile at him.

"Its okay, I should've told you earlier. There is nothing to apologize for." I say reassuring him.

"Still, I want to make up to you. We'll go and catch ice cream after class, my treat." He says panting a little. I smile at him again when something hits my head. With my not-so-good reflexes, I catch the object.

"I don't have time for a sandwich." I say throwing it back to Luke.

"But you haven't had breakfast." He says. God this jogging is tiring me out. I look at my watch again and notice that I have approximately thirty seconds to enter the class. I am gonna strangle the Principal. That man has a death wish I tell you.

"Neither have you. I'll be fine. All the best!" I say speeding up. Both the guys wish me luck and I run through the hallway.

You can do this Ems. I encourage myself in my head. Just a little more.

I finally reach the class and burst through the door like my pants are on fire. I am highly relieved to see that our teacher has not yet arrived; even some of the students are still missing from their sits. Good to know I am not the only one who is late.

I spot Justin at the far back of the class and walk over to him. I plop down beside him panting heavily. He chuckles and hands me a water bottle. I thank him, quickly gulping down half of it.

"Is sex with Luke that exhausting?" he asks amused, making me choke on the water. I stare wide-eyed at him while he laughs his ass off.

"Just kidding." He says still laughing.

"Dickhead." I mutter under my breath. "How did you even wake up so early?" I ask him.

"I wanted to revise a little so I set an early alarm and chugged down some coffee and here I am." He shrugs. Wow, that's some serious dedication towards studies.

We both talk a little more before the teacher turns up, followed by some students. Mr. Harrington was one of the best teachers I've ever met. He is quite young and actually has some sense of humor. He gives us loads of homework and projects but never pressurizes us to complete all of it within the given time, he always adds a few more days for submission.

Today, his eyes look as tired as we all are. I guess the teachers hate the new timing too. I wonder if they'll join me in my diabolical plan to murder the great Mr. Beck who announced the whole schedule.

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"How can you even finish the whole thing?" I say eyeing the large triple scooped Belgian chocolate cone in Justin's hand.

"Well, first, its ice-cream and second, its chocolate." He says licking his ice cream at lightening speed. I bet he is gonna get another one. I shake my head slightly and take another spoon of my cookies and cream flavored scoop.

"I'm gonna run out of money if he keeps eating in that pace." Alex mutters taking a bite of his mango cone. I chuckle at him and we three devour our sweet treat.

Mine and Justin's class got over about an hour earlier along with Alex's so we three headed out to the small ice cream parlor just outside the campus. Poor Alice, Cole and Luke are still stuck in their pop quiz.

"Now I know why you bailed out on us the last time we came here." Justin says distractingly. He has already finished two of his scoops and is working on his last one. How can he eat so fast? I've barely finished half of my scoop.

"About that, I am really sorry for acting like a dick yesterday. I wasn't angry with you but with myself. I notice your weird food habits, I should've talked to you sooner, Emily, I am sorry." Alex says in a guilty way.

"I told you, Alex, there is nothing to apologize. I should have told you guys sooner but I am glad to have such a caring friend like you." I smile at him.

"Yeah I am sorry too, for stealing your ice cream, Alex." Justin says. Alex looks at his cone, which is half empty and then glares at Justin. I laugh at them, taking another bite of my ice cream.

Just then, Luke, Alice and Cole burst into the parlor.

"Oh my god, I am dying, I need air." Alice says panting heavily. Cole and Luke are panting heavily just like her.

"Oh my, I cant..." Cole tries to say something but then falls to the ground over dramatically. Alice and Luke hold him, the three of them putting on a show for everyone in the parlor.

"Cole! Breathe baby. You can't die on me. You promised we would get married and adopt a guinea pig named Cece. Don't leave me Cole!" Luke cries out onto Cole's chest.

What the fuck?

Alice is banging onto Cole chest saying something like 'I'll kill her, that munchkin.' Over and over again. Cole is still panting for air and holding Luke's hand as if Luke is the most precious gem in the world.

All three of them have gathered the attention of everyone present here. All of them are either watching them confused or amused.

"OH MY GOD! WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM?" Justin exclaims loudly in an over dramatic way and rushes over to the three of them.

"What happened? Mrs. White happened. That woman just kept on saying and saying without even pausing in between about the importance of getting good grade or something. Even after the bell, she continued for like twenty minutes. One of the student's ears started bleeding, literally." Alice explains moving her hands in all directions aggressively.

"OH MY GOD! COLE ARE YOU WITH ME?" Luke shouts holding Coles face I his hands. Both their faces are just a couple of inches apart giving out a really, really wrong picture. However, the passion both of them are showing towards makes the whole act look so believable, even I am getting overwhelmed.

"Luke, baby, don't cry. I'll...I'll be fine. I just..." he doesn't even finish the sentence, panting further.

"Here, maybe ice cream will help." Justin says, handing Luke my cookies and cream cup. How the fucking hell did he get my cup? It was in my hands a couple of seconds ago. Is he some kind of a ninja? Or better, a mutant. You know, like Quicksilver. Man Quicksilver is so cool and cute too.

"ONLY HALF A SCOOP WONT CUT IT YOU DUMBASS." Luke shouts and throws the ice cream cup towards us. Alex puts his arm around my shoulder and pulls me down just in time before the cup hits the wall behind us. I thank him quickly and we get up again to watch the excellent Broadway performance. If only I had some popcorn.

"Cole, baby." Luke says grabbing Cole's face again. "It will be okay. Everything will-..." he doesn't get to finish because the manager arrives with a furious look on his face. Really dude, first he is late, second, he can't interrupt the Oscar worthy performance being displayed in front of us and third, he interrupted the bromance moment. I mean, who doesn't ship Luke and Cole. Cuke could be a good name. Lol. Cuke. Hahahahaha.

Get yourself together Emily!

"WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON OUT HERE? GET OUT OF MY SHOP, NOW!" the manager yells loudly and me and Alex almost laugh out. For a big man like him, his voice is squeaky and small and it looks like he has to use every ounce of power in his body to shout that one sentence.

"Listen here, squeaky pants, this here..." Justin says, pointing his hand towards Luke who was cradling Cole's face to his chest. "This is called the 'bromance moment', so you better not interrupt this."

Alex still has an arm around me and we both are shaking wildly on our seats, trying to contain our laughter. If anyone says anything further, I am just going loose it and laugh so hard until I pass out.

"I DON'T CARE! GET OUT NOW OR I'LL CALL THE COPS ON YOU." The squirrel squeaks and that when I explode. I burst out laughing so hard that I don't even care the whole parlor is staring at me. Beside me, Alex is banging his hand on the desk repeatedly, laughing contagiously. We laugh so hard that tears stream down both of our faces.

All four them walk out grumbling but with huge smiles on their faces. They aren't even a bit sorry to the manager. Alex and I on the other hand continue laughing till the moment that our laughs become silent, but still hard. When I finally start loosing my breath and my stomach starts aching, I slow down a little. We both catch our breath, panting heavily.

We both walk out the parlor to see the four of them standing casually outside, laughing about what happened a few minutes ago.

"That was the best performance I've ever seen." Alex exclaims as we approach them. They look towards us and chuckle. Luke slings his arm around my shoulder, pulling him towards him.

"Did you like me acting?" he asks grinning towards me.

"Yeah, I was about to order an Oscar trophy for the best bromance couple." I say chuckling; he chuckles along with me and places a kiss on my forehead.

"Well, we can't go in there for a while." Alice states. 

"Yeah. I am tired anyway. Getting up at six was torture." Cole says wrapping his arm around Alice's waist.

"True that." Alex adds.

"I'm just gonna head back to my room and sleep. Thanks for the ice cream pal." Justin says patting Alex and walking away after bidding us a goodbye.

"I am relieved we have classes at the regular time tomorrow. We're gonna go too, see ya guys later." Alice and Cole say walking away. After a few minutes of talking, Alex also retreats to his room, leaving Luke and me.

"Lets buy some dinner so that we don't have to go to the cafeteria later and we'll spend the rest of the day in the dorm with movies." He suggests.

"I wanna watch Guardians Of The Galaxy." I say excited.

"Anything you want" he says kissing my cheek and leading us to the cafeteria.

He goes inside to buy food while I stand outside looking around the campus. It's already three in the afternoon. Wow, time passes really soon with friends. A hand is placed on my shoulder and I turn around to see Nick.

Nick is also in my class. He is pretty intelligent, almost always acing the tests. He is kind to everyone but I do hear some weird rumors about him sometimes.

"Hey Nick! What are you doing here?" I ask him politely.

"I wanted to return your notebook. You left it on your desk earlier. I thought I'd give it to you in class tomorrow but then I saw you here." He says, shoving my notebook towards me with a small smile.

"Thanks! I don't know what I would do if I lost it." Especially when quarterly exams are a week away.

"No problem. What are you doing here by the way?" he asks.

"Oh I am waiting for Luke. He is getting us some food." He nods. I fee an arm slipping around my waist and then Luke's voice.

"And now that I am here, you can leave us alone." He says, rather rudely and possessively I might add. I nudge him in the stomach to stop being rude to Nick but he just ignores me.

"Chill man, I am going." Nick says putting his hands up in surrender and walking away. "For now at least." He mutters under his breath but I hear him. Okay? What was that about?

"C'mon lets go." Luke says dragging me by my hand. "I don't want you talking to him." He states.

"Why? You jealous?" I tease him. He stops suddenly and his face turns serious.

"That guy is not good. He came from my high school. We were actually friends during freshman year. He used to hang out with all of us. But, then I got to know some really not so good things about him. Just stay away from him, okay?" he says in complete seriousness.

"Okay. He was returning me my notebook, that's it. You have nothing to worry about. Trust me." I say taking his face in my hands.

"I trust you. Its him I don't trust." He says pecking my lips. I roll my eyes and we continue walking to our dorm.

"So, how was your day?" he asks interlocking his fingers with mine.

"It was fine. I wasn't the only one running late so that was good. The ice cream parlor was the highlight of my day though. Even though you threw away my ice cream at the wall." I say laughing but Luke freezes. His face turns into a shocked one and his grip tightens on my hand.

"That was your ice cream?" he asks.

"Yes?" I reply but it comes out as a question.

"Why did Justin have it?"

"I don't know. I was eating it but then you all barged in and I got distracted. I think he just took it from my hands without me even noticing it. But, I ate half of it, it was really good." I reply. His face floods with guilt and I become confused. He begins dragging me somewhere again while I try to contemplate what's going on.

"Where are we going, Luke?" I ask noticing that we haven't turned in the direction of our dorm.

"To buy another scoop of ice cream for you." He replies as if it's the easiest solution to the question.

"But I already had ice cream I don't want another one." Okay, maybe I did want another scoop. It was cookies and cream, how could I deny it? I can't deny anything that has cookies in it.

He just ignores me and continues to drag me back to the same ice cream parlor. He tells me to wait out side with our dinner while he goes in. I wonder how he is going to get the ice cream. The manager seemed pretty pissed off earlier. It would be a surprise if he doesn't come out of the shop covered in whipped cream and chocolate sprinkles.

A couple of minutes later, he walks out completely clean with a cup of ice cream in his hand.

"Here ya go." He says taking the dinner and handing me the ice cream.

"How did you even get it? I thought the manager would have freaked and kicked you out again." I ask.

"Yeah, he did freak out but then I told him that my girl really liked ice cream and I would do anything in my power to give it to her." He says with a charming smile.

"You didn't have to, Luke. I had eaten enough earlier."

"Well half a scoop ice cream for lunch and no breakfast certainly isn't enough, pumpkin. C'mon now lets go and watch you movie." I pout slightly but start walking nonetheless.

"I kinda wanted more of this." I say eating the ice cream. "Thanks" I say shyly. He smiles at me brightly.

"No problem."

We reach our dorm ten minutes later and change into some comfortable clothes. We make ourselves comfortable on his bed and watch movies until dinnertime. I lay my head on his chest while he absent-mindedly plays with my hair. Days like this are what I really look forward to, just laying with each other doing whatever the hell we want or sometimes doing nothing at all.

We don't talk; we enjoy each other's presence in silence with Chris Pratt's sexy voice in the background. Every once in a while, Luke kisses the top of my head and continues to run his hands through me hair and I cherish and treasure each moment like this.

Another day of falling for Luke even deeper. I am falling in love with this man. It hits me like a truck, it's like an electric shock passing through my body as I realize that I am falling in love with him. Its not just because he takes good care of me and puts up with my problems and neither am I saying that I have fallen in love with him within a week, no, it's the combination of all the feelings, moments, secrets we have shared in the past six months of living in this dorm. It's the kindness and the friendship behind everything we have been through. And it's growing stronger by each passing day.

I realized that it wasn't the past two weeks of being together that made me love him, it's the past six months of being stuck in a dorm with each other. Even before we were together, when were both considered each other as 'friends', there was always a spark between us. A spark of something much more than friendship. A spark of compassion, kindness, sweetness, trust, faith.

A spark of love.

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