It's morning, The room was really messy, Saviour, Toby and his two roommates, Clint and Victor were all preparing for classes.
Clint was a 6'2, skinny but handsome light skinned dude, age 20, he was the oldest among them, he loved soccer and pretty much anyone who likes soccer too, and like most students, soccer bets/gambling were one of his favorite activities, he was a great cook, loved music and movies. Although he was Toby's roommate and course mate, they didn't really interact much since they had different interests, Toby didn't like football and his kind of music and movies taste were different. Toby was more of a slow, love , pop music and anime/games kind of person, Clint on the other hand loved K-drama and all kinds of movies but not anime, and he preferred rap music.
Victor on the other hand was also Toby's roommate, but not his coursemate, he was chocolate skinned and very muscular, age 19, he loved all things, all kind of trending music, slow or rap, both movies and anime, and soccer too, gambling too, so he vibed pretty well with his peers unlike Toby.
"Hurry up guys!" Saviour said as he wore his fancy sneakers added with crazy jean shorts and a white nice top, all good quality.
Toby on the other hand didn't wanna stand out, so he went with simple cool black jeans and a Tshirt.
"Let's go" he said as they all left for classes acting like the Grace/Toby incident didn't just happen last night.
He knew they'd still make fun of him about that later on in life, but not now, that's how boys are, they don't really apologize for things like this, you have to man up and face it and move on, and wait for the next person's turn to do something stupid to laugh about.I guess that's why boys have longer friendship.
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"By the way, your birthday is coming soon right?" Saviour asked as he approached Toby when the first class was over.
"Yeah" Toby said with his plain facial expression,
"So what are you gonna do?". Saviour asked, he knew Toby would just sit back and let the day slide, I mean , Toby seemed like a person that would love to celebrate it, not big though, but he just didn't want to celebrate it. It's that complicated for him.
"Hmm, nothing".. He replied as he started moving out of the lecture hall
Saviour expected that response but he wasn't gonna let this chance of teasing shy Toby about his upcoming birthday of course. His birthday was in 4days, he was gonna let everyone know in a way Toby wouldn't like.
"ATTENTION FROM THE CROWD"
"Hey birthday boy, Wait for me" he said in at the top of his voice expecting people to stare as he walked behind him.
Immediately Toby froze."please don't", he said as he started moving away from him as fast as he could.
As Toby walked out of the hall he sighted Isabel from afar and gave a warm smile as she looked at him but she rolled her eyes off acting like she never saw him which was weird.
For someone with Toby's level of social anxiety and lack of love expirience .. it kind of made created a heavy feeling in his Chest,
"Why did she do that?, hmm, I haven't seen her in a while, so why?, hmm"
[Writer] this write up is based on true life story of the romance journey of someone I know..so much Grace/Toby (romance) related story didn't really happened within these 4days to his birthday until his birthday night so I'm just gonna leave the boring part of his life out
Thank you. Love ya
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2nd May. Toby's birthday
"Hey birthday boy" wake up, Savior said, trying to wake Toby up, he had spent the previous night in Toby's place,
"Let's pour him water, it's his day" Victor said and they agreed as they laughed.
Hearing that, Toby immediately got up with a smile as he laughed pleading with them to stop.
They were his great friends, He had always imagined that they'd all graduate together, rich and happily but sadly, life isn't fun for everyone. Especially for people like Toby.
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"The first person to drink it all wins the money".
the evening of his birthday. Saviour had organized a little but fun party for them, it wasn't really a party but it was something, Saviour looked young and innocent but he was like I said before THE COMPLETE OPPOSITE OF TOBY.
Toby was a kind of person who needed deep connection with a girl, a girl who would listen and hear him out and he'd do the same, and Saviour was the type to do what he wants with anygirl and mind his business, I mean, he had the money so it wasn't hard for him to get any girl, but not for love. he was a street guy, but rich, so the kind of party he organized involved alcohols, lots and lots of them.
Toby had never drank in his life and since this was his birthday, he decided to give it a try.
Saviour bought some of the most expensive alcoholic drinks from the supermarket, and they all competed on who could drink the most, Victor drank and got so tired he needed to sleep, Clint on the other hand drank so much that he became so quiet..
Alcohol works in funny ways depending on the individual. The Quiet ones can become noisy and the noisy ones can become quiet or more noisy, but trust me, the quiet ones are always extra noisy.
Toby drank and drank a lot and the description he used was "I feel so free!", I can do anything "
He didn't care about anyone looking at him or laughing at him, it was as if the lock to the cage he was inside was broken. No one could stop him.
It was his first time and he took too much so, of course he'd act that way.
Saviour was the only one in control, he didn't just drink but he took some colored "sweets" ( yeah, those kind of sweets!) too but he was still in control, that's to show how experienced he was, so he tried to put Toby under control but Toby never listened
An extremely shy introverted person turned into the complete opposite in just one night, what is that?!
The Neighbors who noticed something wrong came to see what's up but he didn't care, Normal Toby would avoid them, instead he talked loudly with them..
And then he remembered a name "Grace",
"Oh, Grace, I should talk to her" he said , as he hurriedly walked outside to search for her
"What the fuck" Saviour said immediately as he hurriedly ran after him
"Stop bro" he said
"No, I need to tell her" Toby replied as he stopped
"Tell her what?, I thought you didn't like her" Saviour said as he grabbed the drunk Toby by the shoulder.
"I do, I don't know how or why, she's way out of my league, I have had many crushes in the past and I'd normally stare and avoid till the feelings fade away but this time I just don't want it to fade like it normally does, and I know it won't, I really like her do you understand?" Toby said, staring straight into his best friends eyes as the wind blew past them.
"I don't want a chance like this to pass, I don't know what to do, this could be my only chance"he said as he looked at Saviour hoping to get a push.
But Saviour did opposite, he gave a slight sigh as he held his friend in both hands and said in a calm tone "Just go back inside, you're drunk bro"
Toby didn't know what to do or say, it looked as if this emotional moment had made most of the alcohol clear off his eyes..
"Okay." He said calmly as he turned around to move.
"Hey Grace, come on let's go" a hot friend of Grace, Ginny , a hot young girl with the body shape any girl would pay for. Yeah, that shape, very tiny waist and nice tigh and of course both fronts and backs.(let's not be perverts and think too much about this my dear reader, love you all ) She had a good tinted low cut too, she was Grace's roommate and close friend
She was about to head out with Grace and it seemed like they were running late, though she didn't notice drunk Toby and Saviour standing close by
"Hurry up Grace" she called out Grace,
"I'm coming, wait up" The tiny and beautiful voice of Grace went into the drunk Toby's ear like a beautiful wind that cleared all the alcohol in his body. Hearing that voice cleared his eyes.
He finally heard the voice of the girl he wanted to talk to but I guess his hope of alcohol influence wasn't strong enough
"She's here, Byeee" he said to Saviour as he immediately turned around and rushed back to the apartment.
Even Saviour who was a play boy didn't understand any of what what happening to Toby, but it was something.
Drunk Toby became sober through the voice of a girl, is this the power of love or what?
Normally a person who drank that much would fall fast asleep after moving around so much, but not Toby, everyone fell asleep but he just couldn't, "did I really want to talk to her?, what would I have said?, Oh my God a lot of people saw me drunk and laughed, how will they see me tomorrow?, urrrghh why did I drink?!!.
He didn't know what to do nor how to feel so he walked out of his place at midnight around 2:00AM to look at the stars as he listened to a song he loved so much on headphones at max volume to calm himself
"SNAP by Rosa linn"