Song of the chapter: School's Out - Alice Cooper

Min arrived less than an hour after, earlier than usual. It was our last day on campus: summer was finally upon us.

I, being the overtly organized and OCD person I am, had packed up my things three days prior. It was a little amusing to watch Min panic, trying to find her lace Givenchy shift dress and blue Manolos.

"Did you ever consider the possibility that Rae took them?" Rae being the resident "borrower" of every girl's clothes on campus and Min's best friend.

"Rae left yesterday. I'm pretty sure I saw them under the table over there," she supposed, pacing up and down the room, her mane-like jet black hair swaying behind her.

I couldn't help laugh at the whole situation - it took me back to when I was pacing up and down Mitch's hotel room, looking for my favourite pair of black lace underwear, which he tore off me in heated passion and want, in a desperate attempt to leave.

I remember that that was the day I lost my virginity; I was crying frantically because I was afraid that he would leave me since I was new to the whole making love thing.

He was the exact opposite: he carried me to the bathroom and made sure I had a good hot shower, that I was warm and had something to change into. He even ordered room service, an assortment of delicious French pastries, my favourite ice-cream and The Notebook, which we, he, watched while I slept soundly in his arms.

It was the best night of my life; I remember that he kept reassuring me that he loved me too much to care if I didn't want us to have sex, saying that he wasn't pressuring me into anything. That he would wait for me.

"Zoe? Are you gonna help me or not? You do remember that my crazy parents bought me that outfit to wear to our big lunch today?" Min inquired, sounding very agitated. She constantly felt the pressure of not being an embarrassment to her parents weighing heavily on her shoulders.

Her parents, Dr. and Mrs. Kanagawa, are practically medical and legal royalty respectively - Dr. Kanagawa is the best neurosurgeon in the whole of the east coast. His wife, Mrs. Kanagawa, is a highly successful defense attorney, with innumerable effective trials under her belt.

They are also on the NYU school board hence Min's place at the prestigious university as well as the pressure to be like them. I'm the total opposite of her - I'm an exchange student from the Sorbonne-Paris University in France but I understand her pressure. Unlike her, I'm a scholarship kid who has to attain the best possible grades to ensure that I stay at school.

"Lemme go check in your laundry bin in the bathroom, okay? Maybe you put it there accidentally," I answered.

The bathroom was a total mess: Mitch's scent lingered in the air and I longed for him in my arms. I could hardly see through the steam from the shower earlier still trying to find its way out of the large, partially open windows.

Frantically, I spritzed a vanilla fragrant mist to try and mask the smell of a man, a beautiful man, hanging in the air.

I found Min's dress soon after the fog cleared, hanging from the bathroom mirror, a little damp. Shit, I said out loud. She is going to kill me, I thought.

"What is it, Z? Who are you swearing to?" she asked, half running through the glass door. "Have you found my dress yet? I really need it, you know? Oh my gosh, Zo! Why does it look wet?" she shrieked, her face becoming a little purplish. "Argh, I think I'm gonna be sick."

She went out with the gang, I guessed - she smelt of tequila and Lyle's indeterminate beachy scent.

As soon as she had had a bath and some very strong coffee to take the edge off, we made our way to her parents' Upper East Side penthouse. We were greeted by her gorgeous Puerto Rican housekeeper, Carla.

Luckily for us, Min especially, her parents suddenly had a change of plans. This gave us time to sleep soundly for over six hours - I was up all night engaged by my amazing boyfriend while she was hitting up almost every club in Manhattan with his friends.

I honestly didn't mind being with him; he just needed a little breather once in a while.