It was only 5 am when Laura's dad starts to wake her up and clearly, she does hate waking up this early. But of course that doesn't leave her to obliging since it's her first day as a freshman at Silas University.

Laura's actually excited and scared. Mostly scared. It's going to be her first time living in her own, without her dad. Her first time living in a dormitory. The first time she would be living outside of her city, which would be approximately 3 hours away from her home. The home she had stayed in since she was born. It isn't that far but it would be different not having her dad around, all the time.

Another knock on her door and dad, came in and nudges her shoulder.

"Honey, wake up. You surely don't want to be late for your first day."

She murmurs to her pillow, "Alright dad. I'm coming down in thirty minutes."

At exactly 6 am, Laura and her dad started their journey towards Silas University. Laura is silently fidgeting on her seat, which doesn't go unnoticed by her dad.

"Honey, are you okay?" A light jab comes across to her rib.

"Huh?" Laura looks over to her dad confused.

"Well you've been silent for almost 30 minutes of this ride; you're trying to scare me."

Laura forces a smile, but a half-hearted one. "I'm okay dad. I think I'm just a little bit anxious about what I'm about to look forward to. You know, being away from you and everything's new."

"I get that Laura, but don't worry everything's gonna be fine. Remember what your mom always tells you?"

"Life is nothing but adventure." Laura answers her smile finally turning into a genuine one.

When Laura and her dad came into her dormitory room, Laura somewhat felt a loneliness tugging in her heart and she tried her best not to cry. "This is it dad."

"Yeah this is it honey. But don't worry; you're going to be fine. You'll meet a lot of friends here. If something goes wrong, which I am sure is not going to happen, I'm just a phone or text away."

"Thanks dad." She hugs him tight, not having the intention to let go but she knows she has to. She knows she has an orientation to go to at 10:30 and her dad needs to travel back home. As soon as her dad kissed the top of her head, she reluctantly lets go.

"I have to go now Laura. Be safe here and have fun."

"I will dad. I love you and drive safely on your way home."

"Will do and I love you too."

After Laura dislodged her things on her cabinet she turns to check her phone for the time. It says, 10 which means, its only 30 minutes before the orientation starts. Laura sits on her bed, giving it a try. She smiles to herself as she feels how comfortable it would be sleeping on that bed. She knows it's not as comfortable as her twin bed back home but this isn't so bad either. Besides when she came to her room last weekend to dislodge her other things, she already knew it'll be her bed for the next months. She even remember how her dad teased her that day, telling her he knows she wouldn't be able to sleep without her yellow pillow that is why he told her that she should bring it along with her and she did.

The bell rings signalling that the orientation is about to start followed by an announcement telling students to proceed to auditorium B. As Laura stood up, she frowns as she notices that the bed on the other side of the room is still uncovered and empty. She wonders where her roommate is.

The moment Laura walks in to auditorium B, she notices a huge wave of students, everyone is talking, group of boys, group girls, group of boys and girls and she wonders, will she ever fit in? Only she can find out.

She walks towards the registration table to sign in her name and she was greeted with a girl wearing floral blouse with smile on her face. "Hi, I'm Perry, what year are you in?" She asks Laura as she hands in a black pen.

She smiles and politely answers Perry. I'm Laura Hollis and I'm a freshman."

Perry nudges the girl to her right. "Danny—she's yours. She's a freshman."

The Danny girl finally detaches the phone from her hand and finally looked up to Laura before she could even raise her eyebrow. "Hi. I'm Danny; please write down your name on here and on this sticker ID." Laura did as she was told and after she did, Danny stood up and Laura bites the inner part of her cheek to avoid her shock with how tall Danny is. She felt like gnome, she tells herself.

"So—"Danny speaks up as she looks down to Laura's sticker ID. "I'm Danny as Perry told you earlier and welcome to Silas, right now I would be ushering you to where freshmen seats. We have assigned everyone a seat so it wouldn't be hard to give the handbooks and manuals." Danny explains as they walked towards the upper right area of the auditorium.

"Oh thanks" Laura offers her a smile. "Uh- so what year are you in? I suspect you aren't a freshman since you're uh an organizer of this orientation."

"Well, being the president of the Summer Society it is my responsibility to make sure events like this will be organized. We organize events alongside with the Zetas. The president of Zeta is my annoying best friend Kirsch. And I'm a sophomore." Danny smiles back to Laura as Laura took a sit.

"So, uhm- I'm going to head back to the registration table before they think I'm ditching them and Perry wouldn't like the idea of that. And nice meeting you." Danny felt so shy extending a hand to shake Laura's hand and she feels weird about it. She's not like this in front of girls—she's normally confident when it comes to girls, but there must be something about Laura that made her shy.

When Danny walked back to the registration area, a smile never left her lips and when she sat back down, she immediately rummage through her bag and there she found her blue notebook, across the cover "In Danny's Own Mind" is written. She gently opens it and wrote her first entry on her new journal for this school year.

September 10, 2014.

"I wasn't completely in the mood to be here on this orientation after I had a fight with my best friend Kirsch. I know it's petty and knowing how sweet he is, he will definitely find a way to apologize to me. So I forced myself to be here, after all I need to be here to set an example and to do one of my duties as the Summer Society President.

I am angrily typing out a reply to Kirsch when I suddenly felt a nudged on my elbow 'Danny—she's yours. She's a freshman". I reluctantly looked up for a few seconds since I'm on heated debated and I silently, cursed when I got interrupted by Perry telling me that I needed to assist a freshman. To be honest, I didn't want to handle the freshmen—freshmen are babies.

When I finally looked up, the girl I'm about to usher is hovering in front of me, a nervous smile playing on her lips. And my heart skips a bit with how lovely her face is.

She's wearing a fuchsia button up blouse; her hair is long—ash brown color. She smells like fruit, probably her soap? Shampoo? Lotion? Whatever it is she smells good. As I walked her to where the freshmen will be seated I suddenly felt a smile creep out my lips. She's so cute and tiny. She's probably half my size.

When I was about to get back to registration table, I felt a little weird. I was nervous talking to her for the first time and I couldn't even extend my hand without shaking which is by the way I pray to all the gods and goddesses she didn't notice. "

After two hours of the orientation, Laura was on her way out of the auditorium to go to the cafeteria and have her lunch when she heard someone calls her name. It's Lafontaine, the girl seated next to her during the orientation.

She comes to a halt and turns around to face Lafontaine. "Hey" She answers.

"Are you going to head back to your room?"

"I was actually heading to the cafeteria. I'm starving." Laura laughs.

"Oh cool. Come join us then."

"Alright." Maybe her first day at Silas wouldn't be as lonely as she thought it would be.

During their lunch, Laura find out that Perry and Danny are both taking up Literature while she's taking up journalism. Aside from being the president of Summer Society, Danny is also a TA. Both Perry and Danny are. Lafontaine is Perry's childhood friend, though she's younger but it still counts that way because they are neighbours and they've been friends since Perry was seven and Lafontaine was six.

They were on the middle of a conversation when a buff, tall and handsome guy tackles Danny. Maybe the guy is Danny's boyfriend. It isn't possible for her to have a boyfriend, she's pretty after all.

"Fuck off, Kirsch" she elbows him on the stomach.

"Stop that Kirsch, you know Danny's mad at you." Perry reprimands Kirsch. And if Laura could remember, this Kirsch is her best friend.

Kirsch and another guy sat down in front of them. Perry clears her throat. "Boys, this is Laura. Laura Hollis, she's a freshman and be nice."

"Come on Mommy Perry", the guy in black shirt teases "When was the time you remember us being not nice."

"Right. Perry counters. "Laura this is Kirsch and Will."

Danny interrupts the introduction by asking Will. "Where's your sister, Will?"

Laura looks up and all of a sudden she got interested to this absent sister of his.

"Well, you know Carmilla, she loves the grand entrance. I think she's gonna be here by next week. She doesn't want to go here on a mid-week." He answers before taking a huge bite on his sandwhich.

"So Laura," Lafontaine asks. "What room are you in, in our dormitory?"

Before Laura can answer, Perry speaks up "Well she's Carmilla's roommate. They're assigned to Room 307."

"Oh. No wonder half of the room is still empty." Laura says.

Hope this isn't too bad for a first chapter. Comments are welcome, thanks! -F