I wanted to write a Winlet one shot and my gf gave me the idea of doing a college AU. Let me know what you think!

She was there again. The girl with the flaming red curls and beautiful brown skin and a laugh that made Winter's heart trip every time she heard it in the hall. Winter had tried to figure out which class the girl had that brought her to the music building. It was hard though, since she always had to run from voice lessons straight to trig. She had tried running back after math was over ad waiting for her to come out of one of the classrooms, but her class must have been shorter because she was never around. She never seemed to go into any of the classrooms either. Winter had come early a few times trying to catch the redhead before class, but she always showed up 10 minutes after voice class started.

Winter saw her almost every day that she had voice lessons. The girl would sit on the bench across from the open classroom door and read or doodle. Sometimes she talked to this lanky grad student with messy brown hair that Winter disliked for no good reason.

Winter packed up her backpack hurriedly as soon as the teacher called the end of class. It was almost the end of the semester and she was determined to talk to this girl, trigonometry be damned.

As Winter rushed out of the classroom the girl was swinging her own backpack onto her shoulders. She started to walk off down the hall but Winter sprinted a couple steps and caught up with her.

"Hey." Winter said.

The girl paused and when she saw it was Winter who had stopped her she smiled so big that Winter wondered if she was supposed to know her from somewhere.

"Hey," Winter repeated, "I see you outside class all the time. What's your name?"

"Scarlet, what's yours?" The girl said, hints of a French accent lilting in her words.

"I'm Winter." Winter said and tried to find something else to say. What class do you have now?"

"Oh, I don't have class right now." Scarlet said with a grin like she had been caught with her hand in the cookie jar, but didn't mind at all.

Winter tilted her head. "But you're almost always here at the same time."

Scarlet pressed her lips together. "Well, can you keep a secret?"

Winter drew her eyebrows together. What secret reason could someone have for hanging out in the music building? She said yes anyways and the girl leaned in close.

"I just come here to listen to you sing." She whispered.

Winter was frozen with surprise.

Scarlet took a step back, her warm brown eyes were bright as she watched Winter's expression.

Winter blinked a couple of times. She felt a blush and wondered if Scarlet would notice it against her ebony black skin. "Why?" Was all she could think of saying.

"You have a wonderful voice! I'm surprised I don't have to compete for a seat, honestly." Scarlet said. "I brought my friend some coffee the first week of class and I heard you and I couldn't walk away."

"That grad student?" Winter asked, still blushing. "You're just friends?"

There must have been something in her voice when she mentioned the guy because Scarlet laughed when she said, "Yes that grad student and yes we're just friends."

Winter shifted on her feet, trying to find somewhere else to look.

Scarlet bit her lip, seeming to regret laughing. "Say, do you like coffee?"

Winter hated coffee, but she immediately said, "yes, I love it!"

"We should go get some." Scarlet said and for the first time looked a little vulnerable herself. "If you'd want to. I'd really like to get to know you."

"Me too. We should definitely go." Winter said. Maybe a little too quickly she thought, but then life was short so she added, "I'm free now actually."

Scarlet smiled her bright, full grin again. "I am too and now sounds great."

Winter smiled as they started walking through the crowded hallway again, this time together.