What is Love?
A/N: Okay, it's finally happened. I started writing a Jonnor Fanfiction. I've been wanting to do this for a while now, but I finally worked my nerve to actually do it. My inspiration for this is the Album Sound of a Woman by Kiesza. This takes place in an Alternate Universe and everything should be seen as non-cannon. This first chapter is about 1550 words long. Please, please please please let me know if you see something that should be corrected. Thanks Lovely's.
Chapter One: I Don't Know Why You're Not There.
Jude was walking around the campus trying to clear his thoughts. He couldn't believe that it was already his first day of college and he has yet to make any friends. Although it's not like the brunette went out of his way to meet anyone. The only person he really came in contact was his dorm roommate, but he rarely stayed in with Jude.
Jude didn't like leaving his dorm however. The small living quarters was his shelter like the Adams Fosters house used to be. The brunette knew that if anything went wrong he could hide away there. The only thing stopping him from staying is that he is paying thousands of dollars to go to these dumb classes.
Honestly, he was a Creative Writing Major and he had to take a math class. Wasn't this bullshit supposed to be over in high school? Another way the college system would take your money, Jude figured.
Jude wandered trying to find the right building but soon realized that he was lost and had about 10 more minutes to get to class. The brunette stopped in his tracks and did a 360 to see if he recognized anything. Much to his dismay, he didn't.
That's when he saw the pack of students chatting near a tree. If it had been one person, he'd probably would've been fine to approach them, but there was six of them and his anxiety made it difficult to walk closer to them. All he had to do was ask where Diamond Hall was. One of the young adults made eye contact with Jude and that's all it took to scare him off.
The young female noticed him earlier looking around like he didn't know where he was but when they made eye contact, it was clear to her. She told her group to hold on and began to walk towards Jude, who was walking the away from the group.
"Hey!" She yelled to Jude, who didn't turn around.
"Is she talking to me?" Jude mumbled to himself. He began to look over his shoulder but the girl was already at his side. "Whoa." Jude managed to say.
"Hey," The young female was very pretty with long hair that went to the middle of her back. "you look lost. Where are you going?"
Jude stared at the girl for a little bit. "Oh I'm not lost, I'm just…" Jude stopped lying, he couldn't make an excuse for what he was doing.
"Oh well, if you're not lost."
"I'm trying to get to Diamond Hall." Jude grumbled to the girl, which in turn made the girl give the biggest grin.
"Okay," The girl grabbed Jude's shoulders and turned him around. "That building over there is Diamond Hall." Jude sighed as he saw that it was still a good distance away.
"Thanks, uh."
"Taylor." She spoke quickly.
"Right, thanks Taylor." Jude began walking towards Diamond Hall.
"What's your name!?" She yelled before he could get too far away.
"Jude." The brunette responded only loud enough for her to hear.
"Well, see ya around Jude!"
"See ya." Jude responded at this point speed walking towards the building.
Jude looked over his shoulder once he thought he was far enough away and saw the girl talking to her friends again.
Jude made his way to the Diamond Hall and to the classroom but found that no one was there. The room was dark and when he stepped inside, the lights turned on. Jude was now confused and stepped out the classroom to see if there was a sign or a letter or anything that would've told him where the class was.
Jude started to panic as his breathing became unsteady. This isn't happening. First he was late and now he was lost. Jude walked back into the classroom and took a seat to calm himself. The young brunette read once that he needs to take control of his surroundings if he starts having a panic attack and that's what he tried doing.
First he grabbed onto the desk in front of him, touch. Then he sniffed the air taking in the scent, only smelling his cologne. Then he went to taste, only tasting the minty aftertaste of his toothpaste. Then he opened his eyes to look at the whiteboard. That's when he saw the message on the wall.
"Class has been moved to Diamond 214." Jude said to himself, jumping out of his seat to run out the door. "Shit." Jude knew he was late already, but this made him even more anxious knowing that the attention would be on him once he reached the correct room.
As he ran down the steps, he almost tripped over his shoelaces that were now loose. He stopped because he thought that would draw attention to him, he retied the shoelaces. "Okay," Jude mumbled again. "get a grip Jude."
Jude opened the door to the second floor and walked quickly. He saw that the even numbers were on the right side so he only looked to the right. "220, 218, 216, 214, 212." Jude passed his class and quickly turned around. "214." Jude took a breath and knocked on the closed door.
The professor, walked to the door and opened it after seeing the young man.
"You must be Mr. Adams Foster." The professor said to him.
"Yes sir, I'm sorry I'm late…" The man put a hand to him.
"It's the first day, you're okay, please take a seat." The older man let his hand flow through the air to signify that he could sit anywhere.
"Thanks." Jude walked in and saw a few seats open. If he was honest he didn't want to sit next to anyone, but there wasn't really that option so he went to the second row of the classroom and walked up an empty chair. "Can I sit here?" The young brunette asked the female next to the spot.
"It's a free country." She spoke harshly.
"Okay?" Jude sat down and took a second glance at the blacked hair girl.
"Here pass this to Jude." Jude heard his name and he saw the professor handing something to the boy in front of him. The sandy haired boy turned around and gave a shy smile towards Jude along with the paper the professor gave to him.
"Thanks." Jude spoke to the young man in front of him.
"No prob." Was all that came out of his mouth and he quickly turned back around to face the professor.
"Okay, so let's end today's class by introducing ourselves." The professor said with a big grin.
All of Jude's thoughts became a jumbled mess. He couldn't introduce himself, not in front of all the people in here. Jude looked around the room and saw all the different faces as they began introducing themselves, beginning in the front row.
When it was the sandy haired boys turn he turned around to look at everyone. "My name is Connor Stevens, I'm a freshman, I'm here because of a baseball scholarship, uh." The boy identified as Connor took a breath. "I really don't know what I want to do yet. But that's what college is for right?"
A couple of the students in the class said yeah, or right. Then it was Jude's turn. The young man took a breath and tried pulling the best smile he could.
"Hi, my na-name is Jude Adams Fost-Foster." He stuttered as everyone was looking at him. "Uh, um, I'm a freshman and I want to be a creat-." Jude paused, did he want to admit he wanted to be a creative writer. Out of everything he could choose from, was it creative writing. "I want to get some degree in business, or something." Jude quietly added or something at the end lying to the class.
The black haired girl rolled her eyes and spoke loudly. Jude wasn't listening however, he thought that her name might be Dalilah or Daria, but he was too preoccupied by his thoughts.
After the last person presented Jude gathered his items and put them in his back pack. He let almost everyone leave the room before he started to get up.
"Hey," The Connor guy said to Jude.
"Hi." Jude responded shyly. Jude couldn't look at this guy for more than two seconds because of his beauty. He had a ripped body, perfect hair and the shirt to flaunt his muscles. Jude knew he was gay, but looking at this piece of heaven, he knew for sure he was a thousand percent gay.
"Are you any good at math?" Connor said meekly to Jude.
"A little, why?"
"Do you want a homework partner?" Connor said with the kindest smile.
"Oh, uh, I don't think I'm that good." Jude replied too scared to accept his offer.
"It's cool, let me know next class though if you reconsider." Connor grabbed his items and was about to leave. "My names Connor by the way."
"I remember." Jude responded.
"Oh right, we introduced ourselves." Connor gave a small laugh. "See ya next week Jude." Connor turned around and walked away.
"Bye." Jude said with a small smile. The way Connor said his name gave him butterflies. "Next week." Jude had a bigger smile on his face.
