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"Ouch!" Nicole yelped. She rubbed the side of her head before rubbing the sleep out of her eyes.

"Careful there, sweetheart," chuckled Doc. He kept one hand on the wheel and another hanging out the window, while waggling eyebrows in the rearview mirror.

"Eyes on the road there," warned Nicole. Her head ached from banging against the car window. It ached considerably for what seemed to be one bang, making her wonder exactly how many head-bangs it had taken to wake her up.

Doc eased the steering wheel to the left, passing through an intersection. Nicole's eyes flicked forward.

"Holy..." she breathed.

The campus was beautiful. Large brick building upon building upon building came into view. A couple modern buildings failed to miss Nicole's eye, and she gaped at the architecture. Glass panels lined the side of one building, allowing sunlight to filter straight through one face of the building and straight through the other. Towering over a large grassy area was a ginormous rhododendron tree, beautiful reddish pink blossoms strewing the ground. Countless students walked among the paths, suitcases and duffles in tow, wandering around to find their dorm. Other students, only a select few, had already settled and lay in the grass, laughing and talking.

Doc pulled into the parking garage, blocking off Nicole's view of the idyllic-looking campus.

"Thanks for the ride, Doc," Nicole said, grabbing her bags from the trunk. "I know you'd rather have had Wynonna in the car, too, but you managed to put up with me."

"Easy to, with you resting as easy as a lamb," smiled Doc. He retrieved his own luggage before slamming the trunk shut and locking the car. "Nice thing about being a returning student is bringing a car."

"Nice thing about being a new student is just being here." Nicole mumbled some incoherent, still wrapping her mind around the picture-perfect university she was to attend.

Doc wheeled his suitcase towards the parking garage's exit. "You coming?"

"Yeah! Uh... yeah! Of course!" Nicole shook herself from her dazed state, following Doc to check in.

She was so ready for college.

Get ready to meet Waverly in the next chapter!