(same cannon characters and universe as the tv show “the sex lives of college girls”)karissa, age 19, a fashion major, a student of essex university. starting her freshman year, she moves in with three new roomates, kimberly, bela, whitney, and the infamous leighton murray. karissa is pretty open about liking girls, but obviously leighton is still closeted, and that creates lots of tension between the two, because unbeknownst to karissa, leighton is down bad for her, she doesn’t know how to express it.