Wallwork Day

“When do you guys want breakfast?” is the normal group text for the Wallwork study group on Saturday mornings. The group is made up of old friends that went to the same high school and some new ones we met along the way. The first responses come within the hour and as college students the time agree on is well past normal breakfast times at 11:30 am. With the time set, we head to Folgers dining hall. Some of us are wide awake and others look like they rolled out of bed the minute before. Today I’m the only one that fits the wide awake category. There isn’t much talking till people started waking up and scarfing down their pancakes, hash browns, and sausage, or, like Hannah, bagels and under ripened fruit. As conversation starts to flow, we discuss what we’re studying that day. Amanda, an Asian Studies major with long wavy brown hair, has multiple chapters to read from The Glass Palace, and a quiz that follows. Katherine, is in the same major as Amanda and I am the lone nursing student. Hannah isn’t even joining us since she has a date with her boyfriend later that day. Secretly, we roll our eyes at her because none of us really like him. We leave …show more content…
Our things are still all over the place and we didn’t want anyone to take them. “You know this is probably why everything smells weird,” I say as we sit down. They agree with me but point out that it’s a different scent to add to the others. Katherine starts to tell us about her intense love of mac and cheese bites from Sheetz and how she can eat them every day. Cole becomes bored of us and leaves to get his own food at the Crimson Café. By the time he left, there was no possibility of us doing work anymore, so we shut down our laptops, put away our books and papers, and just let ourselves be free the rest of the