Michelle's eyes snapped open and she looked up to see Jobe dressed as Henchman 24 standing next to Millie. "You two ready to go?" He asked reaching down to give Millie a hand up.
"Yup!" Millie said popping up to her feet.
"Yeah." Michelle said repositioning her hefty body so that she could get up off the ground. _"That's Jobe... Millie is my roomie... So is Ryanne..." Michelle tried to process all of her changes, but she knew she needed to get up and get going with Millie and Jobe. Getting up from the ground was a bit of a struggle due to her size, but once Michelle got to her feet she readjusted her blue jumpsuit and began to follow Jobe and Millie as they searched for Ryanne and Adam. _"Holy shit, like what did I do..." Michelle thought as she followed her two friends through the mass of people. _"Okay... I'm a student at State now." Michelle reached up and adjusted her white helmet. _"And I'm dressed as... Sergeant Hatred after he grew boobs!" A memory of the "What Color is Your Cleansuit?" episode popped into her head. _"And I live with Millie... Millie is like a super amazing and kind person... And I live with Ryanne... Ryanne is prickly... But Ryanne is Ryanne... And if you are her friend she's got your back... And I also live with..."
"There you are!" Millie said approach a skinny goth girl with purple hair. "You and Adam ready to go?"
"Ryanne!" Michelle announced in her head as she stared at the weirdly familiar looking purple haired goth girl wearing a black crop top, a black skirt, and black and white striped tights. "Did I already talk to her?" Michelle's mental question was interrupted when a skinny guy wearing a white shirt, brown vest, and jeans walked up behind Ryanne. "Adam!" Michelle's inner monologue blurted out.
"Yeah we're ready." Ryanne said in her fairly monotone voice. "I see you found Michelle." Ryanne said poking her head around Millie and Jobe.
"Yup!" Millie said grabbing Jobe's arm. "We're all here and ready to head back to campus!"
The group navigated their way out of the party and into the parking lot where Ryanne's sedan was parked. Squeezing into the back seat with Mille and Jobe, Michelle let herself relax as she listened to the her roommates and their boyfriends chatter about the party. "It feels good to finally relax..." Michelle thought as she studied the dark city scenery through the window of Ryanne's car. "It's weird everything, like everything seems so new... Yet... Like, I've seen it all before..." She thought as the city scenery quickly morphed into the familiar sights of State's campus. "Ugh... I am totes exhausted from tonight... Like I can't wait to lay down in my bed and pass out..." Michelle told herself as Ryanne pulled into the parking lot. "But I've still got work to do..." Michelle thought glancing down at her rotund body. "Like I've got 3 more chances to downsize myself and remake my life. Then I can go to bed..." Michelle thought unfastening her seat belt and squeezing out of Ryanne's sedan.
"I'll grab it." Adam said walking around to the trunk of Ryanne's car. Popping open the trunk he pulled out a reusable grocery bag that looked to have a couple of heavy objects inside. "You guys are lucky I'm 21 now." He said walking back to the front of the car to join the rest of the group.
"That's right! Adam is a junior!" Michelle thought hearing the familiar clink of a couple bottles of wine bumping together inside the reusable grocery bag. "He's a year older than the rest of us... So he like buys for us now! Woot Woot!" Michelle perked up at the thought of drinking a couple glasses of wine. "I could totes use a glass or two before bed." Michelle thought as the group headed into the Ritcher dormitory.
"I hope she is feeling better." Millie said to Ryanne.
"Me too. I feel bad for her." Ryanne said opening the door to the stairwell. "Her Shoreleave costume was cute and I was looking forward to seeing her come out of her shell tonight."
"Like,who?" Michelle asked herself as she dove head first into a swarm of unexplored memories.
"Well maybe next year." Millie as she walked up the stairs ahead of Michelle. "Or maybe we should go to one cons that she's mentioned wanting to go to."
Ryanne let out a groan. "But think of the smell." Ryanne pushed open the stairwell door and entered the hallway that their flat was on. "You know those comic cons have to smell awful. I mean don't get me wrong, I would fight a bitch for Meg. But..." Ryanne gagged a little. "Being submerged in a mix of B.O. and Axe body spray makes me want to go lay down in traffic."
"Meg?" Suddenly an image of their other flatmate popped into Michelle's brain. "Meg?" Michelle tried to bring up a mental picture of the Meg that had saved her back at the party, but it was a blurry mess. "It has to be the same Meg! Like, they're the same height!" The blurry memory was just as tall as her roommate Meg, and Michelle could count the number of 6ft tall girls she knew on one hand. "OMG MEG!"
"Well hopefully the migraine stuff I gave her helped." Millie said as Ryanne unlocked the door to their flat
"I'm sure it worked. It has never failed me in the past." Adam said walking into the flat with the rest of the group.
"Wow..." Michelle mentally marveled at the flat that she shared with Ryanne, Millie, and Meg. Everything about the flat felt oddly familiar yet new. "I totes can remember all of this... But, like... It's new to me... Woah..." Michelle's body went into auto-pilot mode and she made her way over to the futon and sat down while Adam and Jobe opened up the bottles of wine.
"You having a glass?" Adam asked Michelle.
"Absolutely!" Michelle responded.
"She only gets two glasses. We don't need Trixie making an appearance tonight." Ryanne said looking at Michelle.
"Who's Trixie?" Michelle asked herself. A fraction of a second later blurred drunken memories began to stream through Michelle's brain. "O... I'm Trixie... O gawd.." Michelle thought as she cringed at her drunken antics. "I gotta stop doing that..." Michelle told herself as a series of one night stands paraded through her consciousness. "I'm better than that... I just need to not drink to excess... I can do better... I swear..." Michelle continued to barter with herself as the others returned from the mini-kitchen to the common area.
"I'm gonna go check on Meg." Millie said before scampering off to Meg's room.
"What do you guys wanna watch?" Adam said grabbing the TV remote. Ryanne, Jobe, and Michelle all responded with shrugs.
"Something chill." Meg said as she slowly walked out from her room with Millie.
"It is her!" Michelle cheered in her head. "That's the same girl!"
"How about Venture Bros?" Jobe interjected. "I mean look at us." Hearing no objections from anyone, Adam pulled the Venture Bros up on the TV and lowered the volume for the still woozy Meg.
"Did I miss anything?" Meg asked she slowly laid down on the floor in front of the two futons. Stretching out her long lanky legs, Meg looked back over and up to everyone on the futons. "I'm feeling a lot better by the way. So go ahead and um... spill the leaves." Meg said grinning at everyone.
