Across the sea

Round 14: College
(Magdalena, Tate and Trent)

Last updates: Tate and Trent/Magdalena

Next updates: Magdalena/Tate and Trent

Narrated by Trent Kirby

So college was not quite as exciting as I thought it would be. It was cool living somewhere other than the farm but there was a lot of work to do if you wanted to a halfway decent grade! Tate and I got started right away.



You could say Tate was a little excited after he finished his first term paper.

Our dorm was almost entirely inhabited by males, with the notable exception of Magdalena. Tate and I were both already good friends with her. She was always nice to us, even though we're several years younger.

Tate has been...I don't know what he's doing. Freestyling, I guess you could loosely call it.

Not many people have been too impressed by his noise pollution but I gave him a pity donation.

Christa seemed to like it though.

In general, girls have been rather forward with Tate at Suffolk. I haven't been so lucky, which has kind of sucked.

Magdalena will talk to me but she talks to everyone.

And she very much has a boyfriend.

A boyfriend who helped her monopolise the elevator every time he visited.

Speaking of Magdalena, she has been sick recently. She didn't spread it to anyone else, despite making no effort to quarantine herself (thanks for that!) but in any case, the soup she made in the kitchen hit the spot and she's feeling a lot better now.

I've been continuing to do my own coursework but Tate has been finding it easier to just flatter other people into doing it for you. I can't believe our dormmates fall for it!

I surreptitiously managed to replace the Don't Wake The Llama table with a poker table, so we can have tournaments now! No one has noticed yet and I know us guys all prefer this new game table to the old one (Magdalena has yet to so much as glance at it).

Separately, without knowledge of the other twin doing it, Tate and I have both had a crack at Magdalena. She wasn't into it. I don't think I needed her hand smushed right into my face to get the message though.

So we headed down to The Ball & Biscuit to see if we could find some girls there. Nope. Not unless you count my aunt Georgette, which we obviously do not. Total sausage fest.

From there, we decided to try out The Old Brick, which was a little more lively on the female front. Tate danced with Carrie, who runs some sort of gamers' hangout. She said it was a secret.

I, at least, got a woman to talk to me.

But she didn't even tell me her name and walked away after just a few minutes of conversation. What am I doing wrong?!?

So I've given up and am just going to wait and see what (or, who) comes my way. I do really want to find someone and get married one day but I have plenty of time.

I've just been hanging out with Tate a lot lately. It's a good thing we don't make huge bets because I've found I'm not very good at poker.

Magdalena graduated, finally, with a 3.6 GPA. She's moved back to Sullivan and is living with her parents until she sorts out all her finances and can buy a house. Buying a house at 24...I hope I can be that lucky!

Random funny:
OK, not that funny but I was mildly amused that Tate and Trent aged into the same shirt, being twins and all. One of the ugliest shirts in the game too, apart from those cowboy monstrosities!

Notes:

• Tate and Trent both have 2 bolts with Magdalena. I briefly entertained setting one of them up with her when they were teens and one of them (I forgot which) even had his first kiss with her. In the end, I decided against it.