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Both of the girls stayed at school for the summer, hoping to make up some of the ground they had lost from missing the fall semester after Katrina last year. Class loads were heavy for a summer semester, for both of them, and they worked hard at their studies.
The bad news is that it left them little time for fun stuff, especially Sami with her job at The Grille and all. Add that to her photo shoots for the agency every couple of weeks or so, and our Sami-girl was one busy little beaver that summer.
Sami had talked with Bonnie about the project that Marcia wanted to do, using them as her models, and Bonnie pointed out, correctly, that the fall semester would be better for them both to do that. She was interested, alright, but not this summer.
Sami, agreeing with Bonnie, told Marcia that they were interested but not until the fall. Marcia was disappointed but resignedly asked Sami to call her when they were ready.
Sami stayed at school for the July Fourth holiday, picking up a couple of extra shifts from some co-workers who wanted the holiday off to party. Bonnie went to her home in Gulfport for the holiday, there being another family reunion at her parents' place.
"Can't really not go, sweetie," Bonnie said as she kissed Sami goodbye in their room, "they have these things every five years, and well, you how family is."
"Yeah, I do," Sami said, and then kissing Bonnie once more, she slapped Bonnie on her ass, saying, "Now get out of here, ahead of the traffic, and drive safely, okay?"
"Okay, baby, see you next Monday," and with that, Bonnie left for her drive to Gulfport.
Sami finished a report for her management class and hurriedly changed for her shift at the restaurant, rushing out of her door and damned near running into the girl who had her hand raised to knock, and which caused the young woman to jump back a bit.
"Oh, shit, you scared me," Sami laughingly said once she was over the shock of there being a body right outside of her door.
"I'm sorry, I was just about to knock when you opened the door so fast; hell, you scared me too," the girl replied with a laugh of her own.
"Wait; don't tell me....Bea, right? Room 312, right?" Sami said as her brain downloaded the information to her mouth.
"I'm impressed," Bea said with a chuckle, "I figured that you had blown off my invite to come and visit," brazenly looking at Sami as if she were a piece of meat that she was choosing for dinner.
"Been really busy, Bea, not unsociable," Sami replied as she locked the door to her room, "and now, I'm on my way to work across the street and I'll be late if I don't hurry," moving past Bea and heading for the stairwell.
Bea walked/ran down the stairwell with Sami and when they made it out of the dorm to the steps, she stopped Sami with a hand on Sami's arm.
"Look, I won't keep you; I'd just wanted to see if you'd like to hang out a bit over the Fourth, if you don't have anything else going on, that is," Bea offered as an explanation.
Looking at her watch, Sami realized that she still had a good ten minutes to make the two minute walk, so she relaxed a bit, and motioned with her head for Bea to walk along with her.
"Well, the only day that I'm not working is the Fourth; The Grille's closing for the holiday," Sami said, adding, "and my roomie's gone, so yeah, I guess so; what'd you have in mind?"
"I don't know, maybe hit a couple of bars for a few brews; you know, just kinda' hang out."
"I'm still about ten months shy of being 'legal' for the bars," Sami admitted to Bea, which caused Bea to smirk a bit.
"Please; this is N'awlins, honey, I know plenty of places where we can have a few without any problem at all. Look, I know you're rushed right now; drop by my room when you get off tonight and we'll figure something out, okay?" turning to walk away, her eyes on Sami.
"Okay," Sami said as she watched Bea's fine ass walk away from her, back to the dorm.
Her ass was the reason that Sami remembered everything else when she almost ran Bea over as she left her room; Sami remembered admiring her ass that afternoon, in the stairwell, when they had first talked.
Turning to look again at Bea as she walked towards her job, Sami thought that all in all, this whole thing was a bit strange, but what the hell, it surely beats the crap out of staying in her room on the Fourth, alone.
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"It's open," Sami heard Bea's voice say from the other side of the door when she had knocked.
"I almost didn't come by," Sami admitted when she walked into Bea's room, into Bea's private room, "I thought it might be too late."
"Nah, I was just catching up on some assigned reading shit," Bea said as she got up from her bed to welcome Sami with an offer of a coke or water from her dorm-sized fridge.
"Who'd you have to kill to get a room all for yourself?" Sami asked as she took the offered coke.
Laughing, Bea told her that she was the RA for the dorm, and RA's get their own rooms, "The school figures it gives the RA and the residents a private place to discuss any problems or concerns of the residents."
"Very fucking cool," Sami replied, as she dropped her tall, slender body onto the futon, with her back against the wall, facing Bea's bed, where Bea had taken up a sitting position, facing Sami.
"I knew our RA was named Bea, and I can't believe that I didn't make the connection when we ran into each other a few weeks back," Sami said after a sip from the cold can of cola.
"That's alright, sugar, I like to try to keep a low profile, so, no harm, no foul," Bea replied with a sweet smile for Sami.
Bea was a senior, and 23, graduating at the end of the upcoming fall semester with a degree in English and had been accepted to graduate school at UT, in Austin, Texas. She was Bonnie's height, give or take an inch, which made her 5'6ish, and Sami figured, about 120 lbs or so.
Her hair was short, with blonde highlighting, which showed off her baby-blues to full advantage. She was small-breasted, their nakedness showing through the simple, thin peasant blouse that she was wearing.
But her most redeeming physical quality was her fine, firm ass, no doubt about it, Sami thought, though her eyes fixated on Bea's breasts showing through the blouse.
"So, what's the plan, Stan," Sami quipped.
"Well, I've got wheels, so transportation won't be a problem, so I guess we just need to figure what it is we want to do." Bea answered.
"Since I have to work the lunch shift on the Fifth, I can't get too hammered," Sami joked, "but, a few brews and maybe some fried shrimp in Bucktown wouldn't be a bad idea."
Bucktown was near Lake Ponchatrain and a part of the City's metroplex.
"I know just the spot; an old friend of mine manages a place in Bucktown with cold, cold beer and delicious shrimp, as well as the best Redfish in Bucktown."
"Sounds like a plan, Bea," Sami said, rising and looking for a place to put her finished coke-can down.
"You're not leaving already?" Bea questioned as she took the can from Sami and tossed it into a waste basket at her desk.
"Yeah, I need to shower up from work; I smell like beers and burgers," Sami laughingly said as she sniffed at her shirt's sleeves.
"I like the smell of beer and burgers," Bea replied standing close to Sami now, and closing her eyes, she sniffed and opened her eyes afterwards, saying, "I don't know, but to me you smell good enough to eat," her voice laughing at her own pun, but her eyes saying something else. The double entendre wasn't lost on Sami, and it did cause her to rethink her plan of staying in her room, after her shower.
"So, after you've showered up, why don't you come back and we'll bullshit each other for a while; you game?" Bea asked, adding, "And if you have any reefer, I wouldn't mind a bit."
"This isn't a set-up to bust me for pot, is it?" Sami asked, but only half-joking when she said it.
"Relax, honey; I'm just out of my own stash at the moment and I can guarantee that we could find weed in over half of the girls' rooms in this dorm," Bea reassured Sami with a chuckle, "Hell, the fourth floor positively reeks of it, most days."
"See you in about a half hour," Sami told Bea as she opened the door to leave.
Bea's response was a small smile, which showed dimples that Sami hadn't noticed before.
It was actually only twenty minutes before Sami returned to Bea's suite, freshly showered, her hair still damp, and dressed in her bum-arounds, gym shorts and a well-worn tee-shirt showing Jagger's puffed-up lips and wagging tongue on the front, and a list of tour stops from eons past.
Bea still had her peasant blouse on but was wearing only panties, her shorts in a heap in the corner of the room. She had been reading when Sami knocked and then entered her room, her granny glasses perched near the end of her nose. Sami liked the look was her immediate impression when Bea had looked up from her book.