" Emily."
No answer.
She's being kind of rude at the moment.
I glare at her from my bed. She's laying down on her bed scrolling through Instagram while ignoring me. I never thought I would beg someone, especially Emily, to talk to me but look where we are now.
" Emily please talk to me."
She sighs and continues on scrolling. After I got home from taking Twinkle back to Gabby a week ago she's been giving me the famous Silent Treatment. I know she wasn't ready to give the dog back but I was doing it for her own good. I saw how attached she started growing to the dog and I needed to put a stop to it before things got out of hand.
Emily not talking to me pisses me off. I even asked her a few days ago if she could do my hair for me, which rarely happens, and she just got up and left. Then the other day I offered to grab us lunch and wanted to know what she wants to eat and she still ignored me. The girl holds a strong grudge.
You'd think I killed the dog by how's she's acting.
" Tyler kissed me." I blurt out.
No he didn't kiss me. He wouldn't have his balls if he tried something like that again.
Yeah right.
" Really?" Emily shrieks as she puts down her phone and turns towards me.
Of course this would get me a response out of her. Why didn't I think of this sooner?
" Ah-ha! I made you talk to me so now you can't go back to ignoring me because you broke the Silent Treatment." I smirk.
I watch as her face drops. I swear I can see her eye twitch. She shoots me a death glare.
" Damn it." she whines.
At least she's talking to me again.
" Listen I'm sorry I tackled you - "
" And straddled me. " Emily adds.
I roll my eyes but let out a chuckle. Just thinking back to that day cracks me up. Tyler and I make a good team.
" Yes and that but you have to understand I was only trying to protect you because... "
Emily quirks her left eyebrow.
" Because what?"
I sigh. I'm really going to say this. She has to forgive me after hearing these words coming from my mouth.
" Because you're my friend and I care about you. " I mumble.
I watch as Emily's eyes bulge from my confession. A huge grin creeps up onto her face as she jumps up from the bed and tackles me into a bone crushing hug.
" You called me your friend!" she exclaims loudly in my ear.
She's forgiven me. I hate having to live with a roommate that doesn't even acknowledge me. I prefer the bubbly Emily over the quiet one anytime.
Emily starts talking about Ashton and how Gabby keeps giving him the flirty eye. She gets cut off when there's a knock on the door.
"Who's that?" I question as Emily gets up from the bed and walks over to the door.
" My niece." she shrugs as she opens the door.
A little girl runs into the room and starts jumping on the bed. She doesn't look older than 4. Emily is talking to someone by the door while the girl keeps jumping on the bed and exclaiming how excited she is to be here. In all this I'm sitting on my bed with a horrified expression.
Dear God.
Emily closes the door and runs over to the little girl. She picks her up and swings her around in a tight hug. They both giggle like a teenage girl on her first date.
Did I miss something here?
" Tayla! I'm so happy to see you!" Emily shrieks as she puts down the little girl.
I clear my throat and both their attention shift to me.
" Oh silly me. Tayla this is Allison, my roommate." Emily says to the little girl.
" She's pwetty." she little girl giggles.
I give her an awkward smile. I don't necessarily like kids and this little girl looks like she's on a major sugar rush. Or it's just her personality. Makes sense that she is related to Emily.
" Hi uhm Em a word please. " I laugh nervously while pulling Emily into the en-suite.
Emily looks confused as she tells Tayla to not break anything. I close the door once we are in the bathroom.
" Mind explaining why there is a 4 year old in our room?"
" She's 3. I offered to babysit her today because my sister is in town for an important meeting." Emily shrugs.
I sigh. I have a lot of work to do and having the little one run around the room the whole day isn't going to make things easy on me. Hopefully Emily takes her out for the day and leaves me in peace to do my work.
" How late is your sister picking her up again?"
Emily thinks for a minute before shrugging.
" She's busy with meetings all day so she'll probably pick her up at 7 or so."
Great. Just great.
" Please tell me you are not going to keep her locked up in the room? I have a lot of work to do. " I plead.
" Of course I'm not going to keep her here the whole day silly. She's a unicorn. She needs to run free. " Emily explains.
I have no idea what she just said but I made out that Emily is taking her out for the day. That's all I care about.
Emily and I leave the bathroom only to be met by Tayla sitting on my bed with my phone pressed to hear ear.
" They went into the bawthwoom." she explains to the person on the other side.
Bawthwoom? Hah. That's actually adorable
" No I'm not." she giggles.
Wait she's talking on my phone. Shit. I walk over to my bed. Tayla's eyes double in size as she realizes she's been caught.
" Uh-oh. " she says. Before I can reach her she jumps off the bed with my phone still pressed to her ear. She runs past me and I miss her by a few inches.
" She has my phone!" I yell out and Emily finally realizes what's happening. She too dashes to get hold of Tayla. Being tiny counts in Tayla's favor as she manages to get away from Emily.
" They're chasing me!" Tayla yells into the phone.
" Help me!" she yells as Emily manages to get her arms around her little waist and pull her back.
Oh thank God she didn't drop my phone.
I take my words back. She isn't adorable anymore.
" It's your boyfwend. " Tayla pouts as she hands me my phone.
I immediately look at the ID caller. Tyler. Lucky me. Out of all the times he could've called he chose now to call me.
" You didn't hear anything." I say as I end the call and put my phone into my back pocket.
" You." I say pointing towards a terrified Tayla.
" Don't touch my phone." I warn her while shooting her a glare.
She might be cute but she's evil. I've met girls like her.
" I heawd youw phone winging and answed it." she pouts.
Look away from the pouting. I repeat, look away from the pouting.
Damn it she's good.
" Fine. Just don't do it again." I sigh.
Tayla nods her head and wriggles out of Emily's grasp. Emily's phone starts ringing and she quickly answers it.
" Fuck." she curses. I plant my hands over Tayla's ears and glare at Emily for cursing in front of her 3 year old niece. The woman has no shame.
" Okay I'll be there in ten minutes." she replies before ending the call.
She better not-
" I need you to watch over Tayla for an hour." Emily cringes while talking.
Haha. She's funny. Me? Babysitting? Yeah right.
" Not happening." I reply flopping down onto my bed.
Emily looks panicked as she paces around in the room.
" Please Ally. I have a job interview in 10 minutes. I really need this job to keep my parents off my back." she pleads.
I arch my eyebrow still not agreeing to it. Not happening.
" Pleaaassseeee." she whines while giving me her best puppy dog eyes.
Damn it. She's making those eyes again. They always get to me.
" Fine. One hour. " I finally give in after seeing a tear roll down her cheek. She's a good actress I'll give that to her.
" I could kiss you now!" she shrieks while gathering all her things in a rush.
" Please don't." I cringe.
Emily laughs as she makes her way over to the door.
" Call me if anything happens." Emily calls back before leaving the room.
Well that happened.
I feel Tayla's eyes on me. Looking over to her I see her sitting on Emily's bed just staring at me. Is she even able to blink? We keep staring at each other for what feels like forever. Eventually I roll my eyes and stand up from my bed.
" You hungry?" I ask grabbing my purse.
" I could eat." she shrugs taking my hand.
I'm about to let go of her hand when her grip tightens around mine. Definitely related to Emily.
We lock the door behind us and head over to my car. Once we reach my car I realize that I don't have a car seat. Fuck. Guess we're walking.
" Sorry babe. We're walking." I announce.
Tayla doesn't seem phased by the extra exercise we are getting in as she looks at her surroundings. Her hand is still tightly wrapped around mine. I get weird looks as I pass some students. As if it's a sin for a girl to walk around with a toddler.
I decided on walking to Dommy's Cafe seeing as it's close to campus and their food is really good. After a few minutes Tayla starts whining that her legs are sore from all the walking. She refuses to walk further and so I end up picking her up and carrying her on my hip. Luckily she's as light as a feather. Within minutes we reach the cafe.
" What do want kid?" I ask looking over the menu.
" A stawbewy milkshake!" she yells.
She doesn't need more sugar.
Try explaining that to her my conscience adds.
" Inside voices."
" Yes ma'am." she whispers making me chuckle.
I look through the menu until someone clears their throat next to me making me look up.
" Hey Ally." Ashton smiles.
" Hey Ash. How are you?" I ask putting down the menu and keeping a side eye on Tayla. Can't have her running off. Emily just forgave me for taking Twinkle away.
" I'm good. I'll be your waiter for the day. What can I get you guys to drink?" he asks with a small smile.
" She'll have-"
" Milkshake!" Tayla yells cutting me off.
My head is starting to hurt from all this yelling. What happened to inside voices?
" Yes a strawberry milkshake for the little one and I'll have the Nutella milkshake." I order. I might as well treat myself to a milkshake.
Ashton leaves to place in our orders and soon arrives with our milkshakes. Tayla looks as if she's about to pass out from excitement and immediately attacks her milkshake. I laugh just thinking of the poor person that has to give her a bath tonight.
Tayla surprisingly isn't someone who needs a lot of attention. As long as she has food in front of her she's in her own world. I can relate on that one. After we both finished I pay the bill and we unfortunately start to walk back to my building.
" Thank you Ally!" Tayla says while giving me a tight hug around my leg seeing as she can't reach further.
" No problem. Aunty Emily should be home by the time we get back."
I hope so.
She said only an hour. It's been an hour.
I have to carry Tayla again. We arrive at the dorm after what feels like forever. I don't like walking with a full tummy. I just don't like walking in general.
I put Tayla down and unlock the door.
" Remeber inside -"
I don't get to finish as Tayla sprints past me and into the room. I'm about to scold her when I hear her scream. It feels like time is slowing down as I too run into the room. I see Tayla with her mouth still open while shouting as she points over to a very terrified Tyler on my bed.
I walk over to Tayla and place my hand over her mouth to muffle her screams. I pick her up when she finally stops screaming.
" Stwange dangew!" she cries out.
I roll my eyes. She's so dramatic.
" It's okay Tayla. I know him." I laugh as I see Tyler's worried face. I never had a kid yelling 'stranger danger' at me so I don't know how he is feeling. The poor guy.
" We talked this morning." Tyler chuckles.
Recognizing his voice Tayla finally calms down.
" Oh yeah. You Ally's boyfwiend."
My face pales as Tyler bursts out laughing. He's going to tease me about this later on.
" Yes I'm her boyfriend." Tyler winks.
Asshole.
" Awe you guys in love?"
How much does this 3 year old know? She knows too much for her age.
" Okay that's enough for today." I say putting her down. Tyler gives me a quick wink.
A thought registers in my mind as I look at the room.
" How'd you get in? " I question Tyler as he gets comfortable on my bed.
" I have a key." he shrugs as if it's the most normal thing to have a key for my dorm.
" Which you got where exactly?"
" Emily gave me a spare key." he chuckles.
Cupid strikes again. Only this time it's beyond anything she's done before. Giving a guy, who we've barley known for 2 months, a key to our room? She needs to get her brain checked out.
Speaking of Emily. Where is she?
I pull out my phone and call Emily. She answers on the second ring.
" Don't hate me but my car broke down." is the first thing that comes out of her mouth.
Just my luck.
" Noooo." I whine. " How long are you going to be gone for?"
I hear rustling in the background before hearing a door close.
" The pickup truck is going to be here in the next hour or so." Emily says softly.
Breath in breath out.
" You owe me big time. " I mumble.
" I know I'm so sorry. "Emily apologizes.
" And what's this I hear about you giving Tyler a key to our-"
" Gotta go. Bye! " she ends the call.
Well played.
I turn my attention back on Tyler who is now braiding Tayla's hair. This is going to be a long day.
" Guess you're stuck with me." I say reaching Tayla.
" I might stick around for a while. I don't have any plans. " Tyler announces which makes Tayla clap her hands in excitement.
A long day indeed.
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