The Girl Who Stutters and The Boy Who Mutters

ut of the trunk, " my sister, Anna, s

his point I'm just following Anna. When she does finally stop walking though we aren't in any building or anything, we're standing in an enormous l

most certainly not looking forwa

ys the weird girl with the stutter, when in fact it isn't a stutter. It's a speech deficiency, I'm not stupid or anyt

ce to party and make new friends. It's strictly education. There's no way aro

ar, my education is certainly not worth being called stutter girl again. The only

line doesn't fucking move, " Anna says

e back l-later, " I suggest s

. Okay maybe I'm exaggerating a bit, it was at least

ept fot the tired looking secretary. I feel bad for her, the f

na says dropping her bags to the f

n enough two pieces of paper are being printed

campus, " the secretary says handing Anna one of the two slips of p

mpt to make a dirty commen

a sec

efore I can finish anna snatches my key and the piece o

er, "we have to go b-back and

s no mist

supposed to

t hair, "you wouldn't have come had I told you otherwise.

-lied

r eyes shut, "Christ don't look at me like that Abby. Yo

way you so

lders, "this is a place full of new beginnings. We can be whoever we w

g down at the ground. Anna flinches beside me when she hears the nam

my speech deficiency. She got suspened our freshman year for punching Scott Rogers in t

as a social life. Anna has always been the popular one. She knows how to talk to people and she's quite the looker.

te them, " Anna says before perking up again. "The

at my sister. It's pretty clear that she's tryin

wonderful opportunity, " Anna says givi

nn

kiss on my cheek before sprinting off in the other direction. She'

make a complete fool out of myself if I had to live with a guy. I don't even full

e make it clear that I'm not saying I have ever attempted anything with my gender. I guess I've been on a couple first dates, if stud

wards my new dorm I si

heck it. The college sends a form telling you about your roommate, I never realized until now that I never actually got m

sted

this dorm room I alre

n and out before pushing the door open and

hirtles

riggers a chain of events that will undoubtely lead to u

definitely tri

shole's

threw a huge tantrum. He started screaming about how he wasn't supposed to even have a roommate this year a

not supposed to be here. I suggest you walk your little happy ass back down to

heated conversation in which went too fast for me to follow, at one point I'm fairly certain one of them started speaking French. I never actually paid attention unti

m my sister punched in the nose. Also the boy who got kicked out of the school about a month later and got sent to a private school bec

lly appearance wise. He doesn't look like the raging bad boy everyone knew him as in high school, instead he looks like a guy straight out of prep school, but then again it's like at the sa

change into prep

esn't even glance my way. He probably won't

sented to me recently, " the secret

ick bro hug type thing, so app

brows at the secretary, "I've been here less than

that there has been a mix up with how many rooms we have available. And because your father is the dean o

ugh, " Scott says shoving

the secretary says, "so I'm afraid Ms. Smit

y. I don't know if it's because he recognizes me, he doesn't like the id

I guess he never even had the courtesy to know what my real name is. He smirks at m

slightly more chipper. Maybe she figures we'll go about thi

ng more than I usually do, if that's even possible.

very tired eyes, "there aren't any other rooms I know of that I can give you.

but w

irl?" Scott asks raising an

ott. But I'm mostly just scared of having to live with this ass

anky old office lady today but I don't need either o

furrowing his eyebrows at her, "I mean sometimes

me. I used to help put on his diapers, I've known him a long t

lare at Scott before openin

f to college thing. I told Anna something horrible would

oor, "if we're going to share a room we need to establish which drawers