As soon as they were back in their dorm room, Nancy and Maura went to work. They took the mattresses off the bed and turned over the frames. Sure enough, there were the same holes drilled into the frames. They broke out the nuts and bolts and moved the bed frames so they could bolt them together again and form one big bed. Then they put the mattresses back on the double frame next to each other. They also added an additional purchase from the summer, queen size sheets to cover both mattresses at the same time.
The meal plan did not start until the first day of classes. For dinner that night, the girls ordered a pizza and sat around talking about their classes. They specifically stayed away from talking about Maria. Finally, Nancy's phone rang with a call from Maria. She answered it and put it on speaker.
"Maria you're on speaker."
"Hey, Nancy. Hey Maura. So glad to be back. Say, can I come down to say hi?"
"Yeah, sure. We're just hanging out."
It was a few minutes later when Maria knocked on the door and entered the room. When she came in, she closed the door. The first thing Nancy and Maura noticed was she still had her long hair. They had agreed that there was too much hair to shove under a wig and so if Maria had her long hair, she probably was not Alexis Vegas. Either way, there still were questions about the plotline in that little series of films that had to be discussed.
The other thing they noticed was that Maria was carrying what looked like a Styrofoam head. She placed it down on one of the desks and said, "We need to talk."
"Yes, I believe we do." said Nancy in a stern voice. Maria became anxious. She had known that her actions could be risking her friendship with Nancy and Maura, although she hoped if she could explain, they might understand and not be angry with her.
"I take it you've seen the movies?"
"Which movies Maria?"
"The movies we worked on over the summer. The ones with Mia, Jessi and Alexis."
"We?"
"Well, that was the project I was working on this summer that I told you about."
"You certainly did not tell us everything. The story lines seemed very familiar."
"Yes, well...I..."
"Maria, that was us, wasn't it? Do you have any idea what a shock it was to see our private lives on a screen in a porno movie?"
Nancy was laying it on thick. Maria was so worried and so anxious that she just focused on Nancy's interrogation. Had she looked over at Maura, she would have seen that she was not able to keep a straight face.
While they didn't know all the details, they knew Maria had talked to someone about their story and that was the basis for those movies. Far from being angry, they thought it was really hot. But they agreed they would give her some grief the first time they saw her, just to mess with her a little. Good natured fun between friends.
"Alright, let me be completely honest with you." She reached her hands behind her head and after a little bit of time, she lifted her hair off her head. The long hair was a wig and below it was the new short cut style of Alexis Vegas.
"So, you are Alexis Vegas!" Nancy shouted it at Maria as if it were an accusation.
"Alexis Vegas is a persona, a stage name. I am Maria Ruiz. And back in January I showed up at this campus and I was away from my friends and loved ones. I had no support system. I did not know anyone. I was worried that I did not have the intelligence to be successful at schoolwork and I had a roommate that hated my very existence.
"And then I was blessed to meet two extraordinary people who welcomed me, helped me, supported me. Me, Maria Ruiz. And we really connected and we made something special. And I hope I didn't ruin it because these two people are so important to me, Maria Ruiz. So, I am hoping that we can pick up from where we left things before the summer. What do you think?"
They were silent for about ten seconds for effect. Maura was the first to give in and said, "I think I'm gonna have sex with a porn star."
"We've already had sex with a porn star, we just didn't know it." added Nancy.
Maria's eyes lit up and she got a huge grin on her face and asked, "So you aren't mad at me?"
"More like turned on." Maura replied.
"YES!" Maria yelled. She took two steps and dove onto the bed, spreading her arms out and knocking Nancy and Maura backwards as she tried to hug them both at the same time.
They sat up on the bed together and Maria said, "I knew you would probably see the movies and I didn't know how you take them. The first episode was out a month ago. I kept waiting for you call and yell at me or something."
"Well, we were in my parents' house for a lot of the summer so there was a much more chaste existence."
Nancy snorted at that. Maria looked at Nancy and asked, "Is there a story behind that?"
"Yes, but yours first. How did our love story become your porn movie."
"Well, at the beginning of last semester, I hadn't wanted to talk to Krissy and Dawn about how I was doing here..."
