“We’re gonna be lateeeee” Remi Bakare moaned out as she looked all around her at the dark skies and also her dying phone

“Calm down Rem” Her best friend Lexia said while swatting her playfully

“You know I can’t. You’re not the one who is going to be in trouble if you’re late for curfew” Remi barked as she started hurrying to the closest bus stop. She’d moved to MaineBrook, South Carolina only five years ago but she already knew that there would be no cabs around at 12 in the morning and the fastest way to get around was by bus and car.

“That is such a stupid rule though” Remi’s other best friend Sanaai said in annoyance “You guys are all adults at this time. Who still makes curfew a thing?”

“Listen when you pay for my housing you can make my curfew but as a RA I’m supposed to set an example and not break curfew” Remi snapped as her Nigerian accent got thicker

“You guys are all 20 plus years in that damn dorm why do they still think having curfew even works?” Lexia mumbled as she flipped back her red hair as annoyance shined in her emerald green eyes

“I’m going to get yelled at by Maudine” Remi groaned as she tapped her foot wondering why the bus wasn’t coming. The buses usually came every 10 minutes yet it still wasn’t arriving

“ Maudine. She’s such a , like every other dorm building says that RAs don’t always have to be in their rooms on weekends. Why do you have to be in your room EVERY single day. Doesn’t she realize that you have friends and men you may want to sleep over with?!” Lexia said in annoyance again. The ginger definitely lived up to her name of being called a fiery red head

“She doesn’t want us to in the case of my kids needing me and me not being there. Besides I don’t have to be there everyday” Remi argued back even though she wasn’t sure why since the woman in question was  real .

“Yes you do-” Sanaai argued then overrode Remi’s protest “You , as a 24 year old adult, having to get permission to go to a sleepover isn’t you not having to sleep there every night?”

Remi just sighed since she knew they were right. She’d been so happy when she’d found out that she would be a Resident Assistant or RA at Saint Agatha University in Mainebrook. The RAs got free housing and food which was a heaven sent to a girl who , along with her parents, was struggling paying for tuition since she'd just moved to the United States.

She’d been so excited and ready to set out to become the best RA ever but that all came crashing down when she learned who she would have the … pleasure of being under. Maudine Fitzpatrick was a 35 year old woman who had taken it upon herself to keep the holiness of the catholic college alive. She wouldn’t let the girls do anything even going as far as banning male guests until the girls had to protest it and get the school board involved. Remi hated the woman but she was the woman who gave her evaluations so she could keep her job, so she was polite

“Why aren’t the buses running?!?!” Remi screeched as she looked at her watch. She had 45 minutes to get to her destination and even on a bus that was pushing it

“Girl chill it’ll be here soon… Wait” Sanaai said softly

“What?” Both girls said as they turned to look at her in worry

“Today… What is today?”

Remi looked at her in confusion before her face dropped and her bottom lip started to tremble “Today is a Sunday”

“ !!!! Buses stop running after 9” Lexia groaned as she put her head in her hands

“I’m screwed!!!” Remi couldn’t help but wail

“Okay calm down. Let’s think” Lexia said as she rubbed her friend’s back

“I knew I shouldn’t have agreed to come out” Remi bemoaned “I already have 2 strikes .Maudine is going do everything in her power to kick me out of the program”

“Shh I’m thinking” Lexia snapped as she started looking through her phone for someone to call.

Remi just sighed as she tried to think too. Their school was 25 minutes away by driving so by the time any of their friends would be able to get to them and drive them back it would surely be past 1 which was when curfew was

“It’s moments like this when we wish that I'd taken my dad’s offer to buy me a car huh?” Sanaai joked

The girls rolled their eyes since the car he wanted to buy her had more safety hazards than it did life left in it.

“I got it !” Lexia exclaimed as she saw a cop car as it approached. She raced to the sidewalk and started to flag him down

The car started to slow down as it reached them. Remi looked at her friend in amazement at her gall. The thing was that at the moment she was so desperate she couldn’t bring forth any feelings of shame.

“Sir , I’m sorry but we need your help” Lexia said as she leaned on the door blocking Remi’s view.

The officer in the car looked at her in suspicious “What’s the problem ma’am?”

“My friends and I are stranded with no way to get back to our dorms at Saint Aggie. Our phones are dying and the buses have stopped running. It’s getting late” Lexia said as she saw the man start to look worried “It’s getting so late…. And we’re so scared. It’s just us three girls”

Remi looked at her best friend with just silent adoration as she poured it on thick. At 5’7, Alexia was a bombshell. She was a sultry vixen that made boys drool but her freckles that were scattered across her nose and cheekbones  made her also look like an angel who one wanted to protect

Remi couldn’t see the man’s face but she was sure he was eating it up.As if on cue Lexia turned around and grinned at them as she ushered them into the back seat

As they were getting situated good manners made Remi lean up from her spot in the middle to thank the man

“Thank you so much for your help sir” She said softly with her thick accent that was laced with a british accent which she gained from schooling at a UK based school in Lagos“I hope we aren’t keeping you from any actual crimes or situations”

“No it’s no problem” The cop said as he recounted his position and working to the intercom before turning to her

Remi blinked her eyes in shock as she came eye to eye with an Asian man. From the way his hair and skin had been when she’d entered the car she’d expected him to be White but here she was looking into the face to an Asian male… A handsome Asian male with some of the darkest eyes and eyebrows she’d ever seen

She couldn’t help but blink again as he looked at her too before his lips twisted into a smile that showed off his cheeks’ twin dimples

“Trust me there is no problem at all” He said huskily as he continued to look at her even when she ducked her head to break his eye contact “The pleasure is all mine”

Lexia and Sanaai looked at each other since they’d been there to catch the last of the interaction. Slowly a smirk formed on their