Part III: A Time To Remember
"Thank God, this is the last damn day for this shit," Ebony told her friend and fellow cheerleader, Erica. "Here it is, a big Friday and we have to go to all of these colleges just because it's College Week at school."
"Well, we would have had to do it sometime, Ebony. You do want to go to college when we graduate, don't you?"
Erica replied. "Yeah, but I just wish that they would let us do this during the summer. Anyhow, I have to go to the campus dormitory and meet some guy name Douglas. He sounds like a geek to me," Ebony said laughingly.
Erica began walking away and replied, "Well, have fun and I hope you find everything that you're looking for at this college." The two split up and Ebony began her trip across the campus of Brown University. After what seemed like a mile long hike across campus, Ebony arrives at the dormitory and looks at her appointment slip to remind herself of the room number.
"Okay, Room 325," she thinks to herself, "must be on the 3rd floor." As she walks to the elevator, she notices a lot of student lying around the lobby studying, mostly guys. She realizes that this is something that she will be doing a lot of when she gets to college in another two years.
Once on the third floor, she finds Room 325 and knocks on the door. There is loud music playing inside the room. Certainly not the type that she listens to. This sounds more like some type of Heavy Metal music. She then hears the music lowered and someone approaches the door. Once the door opens, she is totally surprised to see that it is someone that she knows.
"Alex? Do you live here with Douglas?", she asks.
"No, Ebony. Douglas is my last name. Long time, no see. I knew that I had a student assigned to me but I didn't know that it was you.", Alex replied. She entered his room and he grabbed Ebony's hand and pulled her to him. "Don't act as if you don't know me. After what we've been through, you can at least give me a hug."
Ebony is not sure what to do but figures that there is no harm in hugging him. But she notices that he is holding her quite snugly and affectionately.
"Damn, Ebony. I haven't seen you in so long. How's you and Mark doing?" He releases the hold and she continues to walk towards the only place that he has to sit, his bed.
"We're okay, I guess. He has helped me a lot with my studies," she replies.
"Excuse the appearance of my room. I have been studying a lot myself. That's why there are so many books on the desk and chair. So are you guys still dating?"
"Yeah, we still go out and all. So what are you supposed to be showing me around this campus?"
"Oh, damn Ebony. We got all day for that. Let's talk about the good times that we had. Well, more like the good time that the 3 of us had." It has been several months since that experience and Ebony still got a thrill looking at Alex's tongue piercing and she couldn't help but remember the joy it brought her that evening. She didn't tell Alex but just the thought of that evening began making her a little wet. "You look a little different, Ebony. What have you done to yourself?", Alex asked as he began looking at her as she sat on his bed. She was wearing her school uniform of a white blouse and dark blue plaid skirt that she apparently hemmed a little higher than school regulation normally allow. He could notice that she began excising, probably for the cheerleading team, because her thighs appeared more muscular than the last time he'd seen her.
Then Ebony explained, "Do you remember that evening, Alex?"
"Hell yeah, how could I forget?"
"Well, I became pregnant from that evening. I had a miscarriage two months after it but gained a little weight from it. So I began exercising more and keeping me body toned for the team."
