Dear Nicole,
Oh Wow, a baby? That is so awesome! Ryan is going to have a playmate, huh? Just amazing! How our lives have changed in the last fifteen years, right? And it's funny you should mention changes like this in your last letter because as I was saying before, four months earlier it seemed like my relationship with Felecia would be forever! We were so close and having such fun together; it did seem like it would never end.
We got to college, and it was great! The first month was off the charts. School was good, the college parties were something else. But then, all of a sudden...well, what happened was, she began going to Teddy's house every weekend. That was easy to understand; he only lived thirty minutes away, and his football team was doing very well. She would leave on Fridays to see his game, stay over on Saturdays and come back to school Sunday afternoons. But when his team made the playoffs, for some reason she began living at his house and commuting to school. Our schedules made meeting for lunch impossible. THEN I met Franklin and Samantha. (Laugh out loud!) At the time of our last party with Rachel, I hadn't seen Felecia for two weeks. BUT...
Oh my God, in my last letter I described the fun we had that night! It wore me out so much that the next day (at around 10:00am,) I would have still been sleeping except someone started knocking on the door of my room. I just laid there for a minute trying to shake the sleepy cobwebs out of my head, and then they started banging on the door!
I really was shocked when I opened it, "FELECIA!?"
She threw her arms around me and we hugged each other tightly, "Nance! Oh my God, I missed you so much!"
"Did you lose your key?"
"It's not lost, I forgot it at Teddy's house."
"But it's Saturday, what are you doing here?"
"I had a meeting with Jamie Arnold this morning; we have a project due in history class and we wanted to get a head start. Hey, want to go get some breakfast with me? We can catch up a bit before I go back to meet Jamie."
I jumped in the shower and a half hour later we were sitting in a booth at Denny's ordering coffee. All the way there in the car she was chattering about Teddy's game the night before; they had won their second playoff game by some kind of football miracle...a fumble recovery, a desperation pass, and a game winning field goal. I hadn't seen her this excited since who knows when...and we had NEVER talked about football before in our whole lives!
Then we got talking about the important stuff; she said, "So, what have you been up to all this time?" When I described my classes, the frat party contest, meeting Frankie and Sammie, the sexy fun...she laughed and smiled the whole time. When I got to the part about the night before, her mouth dropped open. "You mean the three of you initiated this girl Rachel in the "joy" of group sex?"
"Oh yes! When she left last night, she told me it was the most fun she'd ever had...EVER!"
Felecia looked at me and grinned, "I think I've created a monster! You're a fucking sex monster!"
We broke up laughing again, "But you know what?"
"There's more?"
"I met this other guy."
Felecia howled, "Oh, my God!"
"No seriously, he's a friend of Franklin's. The four of us are going to the Pearl Jam concert the Saturday after semester ends."
"So you're into 'Grunge' now?"
"Pearl Jam's okay, we'll have fun; this guy seems pretty special!"
"I've heard THAT before, ya know!"
I laughed and said, "Well, we haven't even gone out yet; who knows? But hey, are you and Teddy sleeping in the same bedroom now?"
Felecia shook her head, "Are you kidding? His parents are kinda oblivious; I'm pretty sure they have no idea what we've been up to."
"What HAVE you been up to?"
"Oh, the usual...fantastic fucking for sure; when we get the chance. Last weekend Lauren joined us again for another hot time! I want to hear about last night though; give me some details." For the next ten minutes I filled her in, she laughed hard about Phil and his friends in the library. When I got to the part about the sex with the four of us, she said, "You better stop, my love! I'm getting all turned on here and I have to meet Jamie again in forty-five minutes."
"Am I still your 'love?'"
Felecia's eyes softened and she took my hand, "Forever...best friends forever! But I have to tell you something; Teddy and I are talking about getting married next year!"
"SHUT UP! You are not!"
"No, it's true, we are; lots of colleges want him to play football for them and he's thinking of making it a requirement that they accommodate us! If he stayed here and played for Western, it could work out really well!"
"Oh my God, Felecia! Who else knows about this?"
"No one else; just you...I haven't even told my folks yet."
"When will you?"
"When we decide to do it for sure, I'm guessing in about eighteen months."
Right then we realized we were running up against the clock, so we paid the bill and headed out to the parking lot. "Hey, am I EVER going to be able to drive our car again?"
Felecia laughed and pushed me on the arm, "Of course, do you need it?"
I was giggling too, "Not at the moment; Sammie has hers and she's been an excellent substitute friend while you're off doing your thing!"
"Okay, exams are coming up week after next; I'll be back in the room that whole time and we'll get some stuff ironed out, okay? I'll be back next Sunday before exams start."
The coming week was kind of a blur what with exam reviews, finishing up a term paper, and two tests. I spent a lot of study time with Franklin and Samantha; we were so busy there was no time for much of anything else. Jason had bought the tickets, and we made that a small part of the conversation, but other than that, it was all business.
One highlight though, the four of us had lunch on Thursday. Oh my goodness, Nicole; my Jason! I don't think I told you before; he has such a sexy voice! Did I ever tell you that? The tones on his voice are on a frequency that speaks to some connect center in my brain that I didn't know I had! And right away I realized he could find humor in the weirdest things...like he could read the phone book and make it sound funny!
Anyway, I woke up Friday morning and while I was lying there, I realized, "Oh my God! I haven't been horny this whole week!" That made me giggle, "Nancy," I said to myself, "you really ARE growing up fast! Don't grow up too fast!" And as fate and coincidence would have it, that day while I was in the lunch line someone tapped me on the shoulder. Guess who ended up right behind me? "Hi, Rachel! Long time no see!"