Tom made his way back to the dorms shortly after the morning (thankfully the rest of the Brednars, nor their servants, were yet home before he left). He rubbed his eyes, downed some cucumber water, and then entered the dorm room to the most unpleasant sound possible. He heard Casey groan out in despair from behind the bathroom door. He approached the door and gave it a light knock.
"Casey? You in there?"
"T-Toooom?" Casey groaned out "Is that you?"
"Yeah Casey it's me. What's wrong?"
"Uuuuuuuuugh. I have the worst hangover of my fucking li- bleggggh! - Oh sweet Hegel why did I have the extra Jaeger last night?!"
"I dunno Casey, sounds like a personal problem."
"Tom. Please. If you have any sense of camaraderie... pleaase kill me."
"Not doing that, Casey."
"Cowar- bleggggh!"
Just then, a knock came at the door.
"Oh please for all that is dialectical let that be death." Casey groaned out.
Tom rolled his eyes and answered the door, and there stood Amanda on the other side of it, dressed in a gorgeous curve-hugging lemon-yellow sundress with sunglasses and a bag to match.
"Hey there," she said "Hope you don't mind the surprise visit, Sydney lemme know which dorm hall you stayed in."
"Uh, sure" said Tom. "Mind if I ask why though?".
"Well, given how our first meeting was... weird, to say the least, I figured maybe we could just, y'know, hang out?"
Casey's groans came from the bathroom.
"Toooom. Pleeease tell me that- hurrrrkkk - that's death."
Tom called back, "No, it's Amanda. Y'know, the girl from your philosophy course?"
"Oh her? Ask her if she read - bluurrrgg - Engels."
She shook her head.
"She has not" Tom called out.
"Damn - ptew - it."
"So hey, I'm gonna go hang with Amanda here. I'll text Cliff and let him know your position right now."
"Than - guhehekeh - you."
The two made their way downstairs, where they were met with Alan.
"Ah, Tom! I've been meaning to talk with yo- Amandaaaaa!" he said, sliding next to her "How are you doing beautiful?".
"Still not remotely into you." she said coldly.
Alan shrugged. "Can't blame a guy for trying."
"You know Alan I'm surprised you'd want to date a black girl. Especially considering the whole thing with the barbecue sauce at the dinner party." said Tom.
Amanda turned to him. "What barbecue sauce thing at the dinner party?"
Alan went wide eyed. "N-nothing about the barbecue sauce thing at the dinner party!"
"Oh, Sydney didn't tell you about the barbecue sauce? I thought she told you all about the dinner party."
"I don't remember anything about barbecue sauce."
"Well she mentioned the bit about the burnt roast, I assume?"
"I mean yeah, it's kind of integral to the sto-"
"YOU KNOW WHAT TOM, I'LL SPEAK TO YOU LATER." Alan said loudly, making his way upstairs.
"Well that got rid of him," said Tom "So, did you have anything in mind?"
"I wanted to take you to a nice restaurant, get some brunch" said Amanda "But on the way I wanna know about the barbecue sauce. Because from the context of it I'm gonna hate that Hot Topic lookin' ass weasel a lot more."
"Brunch? Bit early for that it's only..." he said, taking out his phone. "...11:30 AM, wow, I slept way longer than I thought."
"C'mon Tom, I'll give you a taste of what being bougie's like." said Amanda, remote starting a black Mercedes Benz convertible in the parking lot.
"Ohhh, what have I gotten myself into?" he thought.
The two got in the car, and Amanda pressed a button to drop the roof.
Unlike Tom and Cliff, Amanda drove fairly smoothly, and played happy-sounding pop music that resonated perfectly with the summer weather. Offset only by the awful recollection Tom had to give about the dinner party.
They arrived at the restaraunt about ten minutes later, and got out of the car.