Bonus Scene: Tommy

Inside Tommy's Dorm Room

Tommy Tanaka looked down at his phone, and waited. How long had it been since he asked Traci to send him a selfie? Ten minutes? Twenty? An hour?

OK, relax Tommy.

It hadn’t been that long. Fifteen minutes at most. But it sure felt longer. But why the delay though? He knew Traci had seen his last text. She said she was just going out for drinks. But she said the cafe, so maybe some boba tea?

Roommate is probably keeping her busy with girl talk, or whatever.

Tommy was starting to think he wasn’t going to be getting that selfie, so sent another quick message: Aww no pic?

This time, he didn’t have to wait long for a notification to pop up. Yes!

Eagerly, he checked the latest message and sure enough, Traci had sent him a picture. But it was kinda weird, not really what he was expecting. She had a surprised look on her face—but totally understandable given that there was another girl photo bombing her. That must be her roommates. Wait, is that other girl licking Traci’s ear? That’s kinda hot.

Tommy was a little disappointed that Traci had only shot herself from the shoulder up. He was hoping to see what kind of outfit Traci was wearing out tonight. But even looking kind of derpy and not smiling, she was still cute as hell.

“Back,” came a voice from the open doorway. Tommy’s roommate Derek walked in.

“Hey,” Tommy answered. “You find your phone?”

Derek nodded. “Yeah, it was down in the lobby. Lucky nobody made off with it. What you up to?”

“Texting with my girlfriend.”

“Yeah?”

“She just sent me a pic.” Tommy held up his phone.

Derek walked over, looming over Tommy. He was a pretty big guy, but more wide than tall, though still quite a bit taller than Tommy. He leaned in for a closer look at the image.

“Which one is your girl?” he asked.

Tommy pointed out Traci. “The one in front with the shorter hair.”

“Aw nice. Love me some Asian girls.”

“Oh…yeah. Uh, me too.”

Derek walked back over to his side of the room and sat on his bed, scrolling through his own phone. “She’s not here, huh? So where’s she going?”

“Williamston.”

“Oh damn.”

“Yeah, but it’s not too far away.”

Derek looked up from his phone. “Dude, that’s far enough. Especially a girl that cute. She gonna be knee deep in dick by the end of the week, man.”

What the fuck? Did Derek really say that about Traci?

“Uh, she’s not like—”

With a shrug, Derek went back to his phone. “OK if you say so. Cute little nerdy Asian girl like that running around a college campus on her own? She’s gonna have dudes chasing after her little ass day and night. Fuck, I’d give her a little bit of this myself, you know?” He grabbed his crotch and tugged twice.

Tommy couldn’t believe what he was hearing. This clown didn’t know anything about Traci, and already he was making assumptions like that. Tommy wanted to say something in defense of his girlfriend but he couldn’t bring himself to open his mouth.

Silently he lay back on his bed and looked at the image of Traci again. Then he sent a message asking her to call him. He needed to hear her voice right now.