It was the beginning of the new semester. Nasir woke early, he loved college, vacations… not so much. So he takes a bath, puts some jeand and a t-shirt on as the weather was still nice enough to not wear a jacket, does his hair, arrange is bag, sends a good-morning text to his boyfriend Dave while eating breakfast, brushes his teeth and got out of his dorm room, thankfully a single this year. His first class of the year was Ancient History, although he is an architecture student, he had always love history.

He finds his class and choose his seat. He sat in the middle of the room, in the right side. One of the good things on arriving early was that he can always choose his favored seat, not too much in the front, not too much in the back. Not long after, the room started to fill up. The teacher arrived, a 50-or so years old man with thick glasses. Nasir liked the man, he did not waste to much time on silly introductions and began explaining the evaluation of the class. There was a final exam and a paper worth of 40% of the grade to be delivered in the middle of the semester, that way they are going to have the rest of it to study. The paper is to be made in pairs, assigned alphabetically by the teacher. He was pair up with a girl named Naevia, two rows down his own. When their names were called, she looked back and smiled. It is a warm smile and she had kind eyes, but the contact is to breif to Nasit to notice much more. The teacher delivered her two copies of the assigned paper. Nasir onlyhoped that she is a hard worker, he hated to have to do the entire paper all by himself.

The rest of the class passed quickly. For Nasir it was a nice break of all the mathematics and the physics necessary to make a building to stay up. In the end, Naevia approach him.

"Hi, I'm Naevia", she says with a smile. Nasir look up from his bag and is meet with a medium-high, brown-colored, fit looking girl with her hair in a ponytail and the kind eyes he only saw briefly. She is a very pretty girl.

"Nasir, pleasure to meet you".

"So, we are working on this together…" She look at the papers in her hand. "It looks that our theme is Ancient Rome, more specifically their entertainment forms."

"Good, I always love those gladiators stories."

"Me too. Although I only know what I saw in movies and tv series. That's why I took this class, I want to know more about it. Besides, it is nice to learn more than just our necessary classes."

"I presume you aren't a history student?"

"No, I'm going to be a nurse", she said it with pride in her voice. Nasir could see it. She look like she care with people.

"I'm an architecture student. I think we share a liking to history then", Nasir smile to her for the first time.

"It seems like we do", Naevia smile grow. "We should exchange number and e-mails" "Yeah". Nasir grabs a paper and wrote his information.

"Great! I will text you my e-mail and we can arrange a time both of are free. I got to go. See your later."

"Bye!" Nasir liked her. Maybe then could become friends, she seemed nice enough… And Dave couldn't bitch him too much about it sense she has his work partner. Either way, he decided to text Dave again, telling him the news.

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In his next class, Nasir received Naevia text, asking if he wanted to meet for coffee the next day, and that way they could organize their work. He said yes, that he was free at 16h, to meet him in the bar near the Health Center, there they have great coffee.

Nothing happen the rest of the day, he meet his class mates, their did a bit of casual conversation. Nasir didn't have a lot of friends, actually his only true friend has Chadara, a girl he met in high school and now studied art in the same universityas he. He is a very private person, even Chadara didn't know all that happens now to him. He made a mental note to call her, they hadn't been together since the end of the previous semester, in the beginning of the summer. Chadara went home, but Nasir had stayed in town.

At lunch, Dave called him. "Hi, Nasir"

"Hello, Dave. How's work?"

"Good. So who is this Naevia person?", always straight to the point, not even bothering to ask Nasir how he was. Dave hasn't in his best mood. But then, lately, he never really has…

"She a girl that get paired with me in our Ancient History class, she is going to by a nurse. Neither of us knows too much about the subject, so we gonna need to spend some time together doing our research." Nasir had already told him that inhos text, but thought it was better to repeat it and get all the information in one time. He knows that Dave won't like that and that way has like ripping a band-aid.

"A nurse, hey? I liked to met her." Nasir wasn't surprise, Dave wanted to know all of his friends, or anyone that Nasir spend some long period of time.

"Of course. We gonna met tomorrow. I can talk to her then and ask her to met us someday."

"Perfect." Nasir could almost hear the satisfaction smile. "I want you to come dinner with me tomorrow and tell me how this meeting with her go."

"Yeah, ok. At what time must I be in your place?"

"8 o'clock. Don't be late. Bye."

"Bye." Well, that wasn't so bad. Nasir only hoped that dinner the next day went as good as this conversation.