Into The Light
By: CNJ
PG-13
1: Back Home Again
Liza:
"Home, sweet twin city home!"
I crowed as Claudia Kishi and I finally got off the plane and headed out
of the airport, looking for a cab. After six wonderful weeks in Europe
with my friends, Katie Shannon, Christie Winchell, Dekeisha Adams, and
Whitney Larkin, it felt good to be back home in Minnesota. It was a rather
muggy August day and classes would be starting again at Granite U. for
another month. My friends and I would be starting our third year in college
this fall.
"Yeah, home again," Claudia
agreed. She's another friend of mine, who's a dormmate. She'd gone to Stoneybrook
High while I'd gone to Burkeview High and we briefly met in high school
while we were growing up in Connecticut. This summer, after I'd gotten
back from Europe with my friends, also known as the Five R Us, we'd stopped
in Bridgeport for the weekend to see our folks and siblings. It turned
out Claudia had also been in nearby Stoneybrook visiting her folks and
we lucked out on having the same flight back home together, so here we
were. We finally got a cab and were on our way back to Granite U. in the
outskirts of Minneapolis.
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"I saw Kristy in Stoneybrook,"
Claudia told me as we rode back to Granite U. Claudia has a group of friends
that made up the Baby-Sitters' Club in high school is Kristy Thomas is
one of them.
"Yeah...how's she been?"
I asked.
"Been doing all right. She
was visiting her folks too. Her classes at Fellowdean start in early September
too." Fellowdean U. is in New York City. Mona Vaughn and Mary Anne Spier,
two of her other friends are also in New York City at nearby Staten U.
"I have to e-mail my other
friends, see how they got home," I told her as we pulled up on campus.
Katie is at Georgetown U. in Washington, DC while Christie is at Aberdine
in Vermont, which is the same college that Stacey McGill from the Baby-Sitters'
Club or BSC for short goes to also. Dekeisha's at New York U. in the upstate
campus while Whitney goes to MIT in Massachussetts along with Melissa McConnell.
As soon as we pulled up into the parking lot and paid the driver, I noticed
something a little fishy. Boxes were piled up outside by the bushes. Big
trash day or something, I figured as Claudia and I unloaded our luggage.
Claudia noticed too as the cab drove off. We slowly headed toward the door,
carting our things behind us on a carrier. Just then, Carol Vyman came
out, hauling a table with her.
"Heyy, what's going on?"
Claudia asked.
"They're consolidating,"
Carol told us.
"What?!" I gasped.
"Van Gogh Hall was bought
out to a private company and there's a battle about that, so all of us
have to move into other dorms until they get it settled."
"Oh, God..." I looked up
at the three-story brick building, then at Carol, my eyes wide.
"So we have a month to find
other dorms or housing," Carol opened the hatchback of her car and shoved
the table inside.
More later!