Tabitha goes to the cafeteria

I finish my last class for the day and it is about 4P.M.  I head to the cafeteria for some much needed food.  I pass all the tables for the frats and sororities but they look like that they give me a weird look for some reason.  I see one of the girls heading my way with also the same confused look on her face.

                        “So have you decided if you are going to join a sorority or not? Plus what is up with the wardrobe change I thought the outfit you were wearing earlier was cuter,” She says with a hopeful and yet confused look in her eyes.

                        “I’m sorry, I don’t think I have met you.  I didn’t change this is what I’ve been wearing all day and I just got out of classes,” I say probably giving and equally confused look on my face.

                        “Are you sure because I swear I was talking to a girl that looks almost exactly like you,” She says looking me over to see if I was the person she was talking to earlier.

                        “No I’m sure I would remember if I talked to and what I was wearing this morning,” I say trying not to sound mean to her.

                        “Okay, well if you are ever want to join a sorority think about us,” She says handing me some papers with information on them.

                        “Yeah, thanks, I’ll seriously think about it,” I said smiling.

                        I continue my journey to the cafeteria for much needed nourishment.  I go through the line and get a burger, cooked medium rare with pickles, mustard, and ketchup.  I walk out and look around the eating area for a place to eat.  I see a place to near the front doors to the cafeteria.  I go to the table, sit down, and start to eat my burger when I feel someone tapping me on my shoulder.  I turn to see that it is Brad from when I moved into my dorm room.

                        “Hey,” he says.

                        “Hey,” I say back not really sure what to say.

                        “So how was your first day of classes?” He asks sitting in the chair next to me. “I’m sure it was a bit overwhelming, right.  I know it was for me when I was a first year here.”

                        “Not really.  I’m used to heavy course loads so this will be a piece of cake,” I say dipping one of my fries into a puddle of ketchup on my plate.

                        “Well, you seem to be doing better than I did,” Brad says with a chuckle.  “I saw one of the sorority girls talking to you.  Are you planning on going for one of the houses?”

                        “I don’t know yet.  She actually thought I was some girl that she was talking to earlier today,” I said feeling a tinge of worry hitting me.  What if my twin is also at this college too?  Will I be able to do what I have been trained to do if we come in contact with each other?  I will just have to be extra careful and try not to come in contact with her.

                        “That’s weird.  You might have a doppelganger on campus,” Brad says with a laugh.

                        “Yeah you might be right,” I said laughing too.  But still I worry if she is really here or not.

                        We talk and laugh for a couple more hours and then we realized that the cafeteria was closing down for the evening.  So we gathered our belongings and walked out the front door to the courtyard.

                        We are walking across the courtyard when we hear a female voice calling Brad’s name.

                        “Brad, there you are I’ve been looking all over campus for you,” a young red head comes running up to us.

                        “Great,” says Brad and the look on his face showed that he wasn’t too pleased to see this person.

                        We stop walking to so the girl can finish catching up to us.  She finally gets up to us, although slightly out of breath.  She immediately links arms with Brad and Brad pulls his arm out from her grip.  I see a flash of sadness and then anger go across the girl’s face.  I try not to wonder about peoples relationships because it just causes too much drama and it is not worth the time to me.

                        “What do you want Chrissie?” Brad asks with a look of annoyance on his face.

                        “I just thought you would want to hang out tonight is all,” Chrissie says pouting and then she notices me.  The look on her face tells me that she not happy to see me with Brad.  “Who is she?  Your new girlfriend or something?”

                        “No, this is Tabitha.  I helped move her move into her dorm room yesterday,” Brad says trying hard to be polite.

                        “Oh, well do you want to hang out tonight?  I bought a movie that I think you will like and we can watch it together,” Chrissie says completely ignoring the fact that I am still standing right there.  I wonder if I should just leave and let them have some alone time.

                        “Well, I guess I’ll get going back to my dorm now and let you two talk,” I say and turn to start walking away.

                        “Wait, I’ll walk you back since this is your first time walking back on this campus and students do have a tendency of getting lost a lot on this campus,” Brad says.  “Sorry Chrissie not tonight I’ll see what my schedule looks like for the rest of the week and get back to you.”

                        “You know I could probably find my way back without your help if you really needed to talk to her,” I say as we are walking back to the dormitory.

                        “Yeah, I know but I really didn’t want to talk to her.  She sort of is stalking me because I’m part of a fraternity that is sort of have a unwritten law of seeing girls in her sorority but I’m not interested in any of them,” Brad says with a frown on his face.

                        “Oh, so have you only dated girls from that sorority?” I ask not really knowing why I was asking the question.

                        “I haven’t dated anyone since I started here actually,” Brad says.

                         We walk along in silence not really knowing now what to talk about.  I couldn’t believe that I asked a dating question.  I was raised that getting into a relationship would hinder me on .

                        “Yeah and probably tired too.  I guess I should get going to bed,” I said and then starting walking up the steps to the dormitory.

                        “Hey, if you don’t have any plans tomorrow night, do you want to go hang out?  I know a 24 hour coffee shop that is not far from campus,” Brad says looking a little nervous.                       

                        “Sure that sounds nice.  My last class ends at six so let’s meet up at seven,” I said with a smile.

                        “Sounds awesome, I’ll meet you here at seven then,” Brad says with a big grin on his face and with a wave walks off.

                        I walk up to my dorm room and lean against the door with a sigh.  I couldn’t believe that I have been here for one day and I already had a date tomorrow.  Then a thought crossed my mind of what am I going to wear?