The College Life

Chapter One

Summary: So the people that say that the college years are the best of your life? Heh, they are such liars. I mean, I had everything perfect and planned out. But here I am, in a huge mansion/house with four overly sexy guys because there are no more dorms left! And...and how am I going to pay for this?

A/N: I'm lacking inspiration these days so one day I decided to watch The Hills on MTV and so this popped into my head. Here it goes. Oh, and every college tip I use is not always mine. You could probably pick them out…

Disclaimer: Don't own it!

Things College Students Need To Know Number 1: You need to know to forget what Mister Rogers told you years ago: You're not special. In fact, there's room for improvement.

"I'll be okay mom…you can let go now." I said. My air supply was running low from this crushing bear hug my mom is giving me. I knew that those weight classes she took had something to do with it.

"I know, honey." But, she still didn't let go.

My mom has always been so very attached to me since it's only us two around. That's what made it even harder to leave this place and go to college two hundred miles away.

I'm standing with my bags at the door, which is open waiting for me to exit, and my mom sniffling like she just caught the flu. Somehow finding the strength in my thin arms, I pull out and place my hands on her shoulders.

My mom almost looks exactly like me, from what people tell us. We have the same eyes, this emerald green color than runs in the family. While her hair is a beautiful red, mine is pink like cotton candy and she has laugh lines while I have bags under my eyes from studying hard on exams to enter this college.

"I can't believe you're going. It's like, just yesterday I was changing your diapers." And then the water works come. She's bawling like a baby and I needed to get out of here to check in.

"Mom, Mom, Mom!" I yell over her loud cries, jeez she is too emotional.

"Oh! Yes, make sure you call me when you get in and I'll be over in a week to check your dorm okay?" She kisses my forehead and helps me drag my bags out to my car, which I bought myself with my own working money. I managed to ease the salesman into a good price, good mileage and air conditioning that actually works every time you turn it on. I know for normal teens the just get a car for their sweet sixteen, or just hope for their parents to get one in the future. But since, my life has been so rough and my mom struggling for jobs, I wanted to do this by myself, my own car, with my own money. And it felt damn good.

"Bye mom!" I said as I pulled out of our beat up, rocky driveway. I waved one last time and turned the corner.

Soon, I was on the highway, and I pulled down the windows letting the last of the summer air blow at my face. It was sunny and with puffy clouds every where, I felt freedom at last. I turned up my Boys Like Girls CD so loud and sung along, not caring at the adults glared at me or the guys giving me looks, it was just me vs. the world now. Not one can stop me.

My name is Sakura Haruno. I'm eighteen years old and live -well used to- in the worst part of Konoha County with my loving single mother, Serena. For the past two and a half years I've been working day and night for this day, the day when I'd finally live my own life and start all over. I got into one of the best schools with a full scholarship in the academics where I intend to truly find who I am and what I'm here for. I maybe "5'5" and only 115 pounds but I'm filled with power and energy right now I could explode.

-.-.-

So, after I've calmed down at little bit and switch to some calming music to settle the nerves in my stomach, I reached my paradise. It's everything I saw in the brochures and more. It looked like somewhere in places like Beverly Hills, with palm trees and everything.

On my way to the orientation for the freshman, I'm just observing the scenery and soaking it in. I noticed that it wasn't too far from the beach and even had some mountains off in the distance. Their were people walking around, you could tell which ones were new and which one's weren't. The buildings were all a smooth beige color and…wait a Starbucks Coffee place as well. I've learned to love caffeine sincethat's what kept me up in all those nights of studying.

The people looked like models, right out of the magazine itself, with clothes from brands like Hollister and Abercrombie & Fitch. Girls with the perfect tans and hair, and guys with the built bodies and million dollar smiles.

Don't get me wrong though, it's not like I spent everyday cooped up in my house studying for this. I jogged and went to the gym four times a week and lost some extra flab. I didn't have that strikingly-stunning-oh-my-god body, but I was almost there.

Anyway, the orientation was inside the auditorium which was like, five times bigger than my high school one. Then this lady with the biggest boobs ever came up to the podium. She began talking about how different college was than high school. Blah, blah I knew all of that by now. And then my phone in my back pocket vibrated.

Opening up my red EnV phone, which I got from my aunt for my birthday, I had a new text message. It was from my best friend Ino.

Ino: R u on campus yet?

Me: Yup and it's so awesome I could just die

For a moment, I glance back up at Huge Boobs and she's ranting on about keeping your head in the books and to not get caught up in the parties. Some guys in the back whooped and slapped hands, when I looked back there they were all laughing but one turned and saw me. Before anything else I turned around.

I felt him stare at my back for a second, and then my phone buzzed.

Ino: Cool! I wish I could be there…how do the guys look?

I looked up thinking about the guy that caught my eye, but I didn't look back instead I saw a cute guy with spiky brown hair ask a question about how food was here. The friends he was with laughed, I sighed and looked at the keyboard on my phone.

Me: Gorgeous Idk how im going to find a guy here…

Ino and me, were as you could say, like two peas in a pod. We almost did everything together like, go to the mall and sneak into rated R movies when we were sophomores. But we also had our differences, Ino was the beautiful one with bleach blonde hair and sapphire eyes. She goes through boys like an obese kid goes through a box of Twinkies. One after another.

As for me, I've only had two boyfriends, one in sophomore year and one in senior year. Sai and Gaara were their names and both relationships were long-term. But all ended badly, for example, Sai somehow found out that he was gay and dumped me. Yeah, I cried at Ino's for days. And then there was Gaara who may have come off as an emo kid, but was one great kisser. He moved away and that was half of me gone. I cried at Ino's for weeks.

But I'm better now, I'm almost, maybe not entirely, ready for a relationship.

Ino: Come on Sak! Ur sexy now! Yule get one before you know it. Oh and I broke up with Deidara

Me: WTF!

Usually when either me or Ino have a recent we'd have Fatty Days. We'd gather up as much junk food and sit in front of her TV and watch sad romance movies or action-packed ones. Last time, when she had a break up we drove to the store, got cokes and bags of BBQ chips and Hershey bars, and then we watched Kill Bill 1.

Ino: yea we just didn't feel it anymore so….and besides I think he was cheating on me

I let out a huge sigh and looked back at the stage and Huge Boobs finally brings her speech to a conclusion. Everyone starts to scatter and head to their dorms.

Me: u think evry1s cheating on u but I gotta go to my dorm ill call u later

I slid my phone back into the pocket of my jeans and turn around. But I hit a solid wall, or that's what it felt like.

"Er, sorry." I mumbled apologetically. I looked up to see a six foot tan, very hot guy in front of me. Dressed in khaki shorts and a white Fall Out Boy T-shirt he looked down at me with chocolate brown eyes, and smirked. I seriously think that the guys here must be very good friends with the dentist because his smile was too white for words to describe.

He looked like those hot surfers that you see in those commercials running in slow-motion on the beach, flipping their hair and looking almost irresistible.

"No problem. Hey, are you new here?"

I'm just staring at his face so long, I almost miss the question. What was I supposed to say, "Yeah I'm new here you can tell right?" Then I'd really sound like a high-schooler. I'd prepared so much for the courses of this school, I forgot on how to be social with strangers.

"Uh, yeah pretty much." I laugh a little. "Are you?"

"No, upperclassmen." Aw, shit I'm talking to an upperclassmen, he'll probably be talking about me later on with his friends.

"So, if you need like, any trouble finding anything then you can ask me. I'm everywhere." He jokes. And then some other guy with bushy hair and sunglasses come up behind him and places a hand on his shoulder. "Dude, we gotta get ready for the party tonight." This guy then glances at me and looks up and down. "Whoa." He slides his glasses down and winks. I look around nervously.

"All right I'll be there." He says annoyingly. But the guys still standing there looking at me. "So, you know, I'm single."

"Yeah, yeah." The guy pushes him off somewhere and I'm blushing. First day, I've already gotten hit on. I wonder what I'd be like if Ino was here, that guy would probably fall head over heels.

"So, I've got to get ready for this party thing. We have it for you know the upperclassmen returning."

"Oh." I say. A signal that people like me aren't invited.

"But you could come if you want to. I'll let you in." He gives me some weird looking smirk that rises my heart beat by too much.

"Ah okay sure."

"It's at Fire Hall on the first floor." He checks his watch. "Hope I see you there…oh, and the name's Kiba by the way." He holds out his hand and I shake it. "Sakura."

"Sakura…" He repeats seductively. And he turns around heading to who knows where.

I began to walk back to my car. So far today I've gotten hit on by an upperclassmen and invited to a party by another upperclassmen. So it's all good. Except I didn't know where the hell Fire Hall was. I drive to the dorm registration area.

I'm the last one in line, and no one comes in after me. Luckily, I went online and registered for a dorm already so all I had to do was basically say my name is Sakura Haruno. I smile to myself, there really is no point of being nervous anymore, everything is going smoothly.

Once I'm at the front of the line there's this really pretty lady with crimson eyes and a very low cut shirt. Next to her was a guy with sideburns and a cigarette hanging out his mouth.

"Hi, I'm Sakura Haruno and I've already scheduled for a dorm?"

She slides her finger down the checklist in front of her and she checks the next page and the other and the other….

And then she looks and me. "Um, I don't see you here. Let me check the computer."

I watched her with confused eyes as she switched to a black laptop.

"I'm sorry but I don't see your name in the files."

What the hell? Files? My name has got to be in those files! I took a breath and cleared my head.

"But I scheduled for one online."

"Yes you can schedule for one, but if you don't get here in time then your room will be given away."

I look at the man beside her.

"What? No one told me that!"

"You didn't have to be so blunt Asuma." The lady scowled and then she gave me a smile. Again, the teeth are perfectly whitened. "I'll check if any dorms are left."

She reached across the table and grabbed another list. "You're in luck we have one place open, but it's not really on the campus."

"O-Okay." I said. She wrote down the address on a small card and handed it to me. This was my only hope for a place to stay, so I took it willingly and walked stiffly out the door.

-.-.-

"5624 Ocean Avenue." I said as I followed Mrs. Kurenai's instructions into a neighborhood that had a nice sign labeled: Paradise Estates. I'm used to entering apartment complexes with letters missing on the signs or sometimes the sign was even gone.

The first house I saw had to be the biggest I'd ever seen in my entire life. With a five car garage, rock-lined pool, three stories, brick front and so many windows that it was ridiculous. Well, that's a good sign. My roommate is rich. But the bad side, is how I'm going to pay for it. I cringed.

But it's my only choice, because I needed a place to live even if I'd have to get two jobs to pay for rent. This college is where I want to be and I'm not backing down.

As I made a left turn around the corner and looked at every house in view. This was where the movie stars had to live, or where talk-show hosts like Oprah and Jerry Springer live. It had to be. All the lawns were nice and green. Here, it must be illegal to have brown laws.

Where I'm from we just gave up on our lawn, my mom and I tried planting flowers but they just died within weeks because we forgot to water them. Sadly, the family with green thumbs skipped our generation.

"5620, 5621, 5622, 5623...5624." The house - I mean, mansion - was so huge, I thought it was bigger than any other house in the neighborhood. It's so big, it's just obnoxious. I mean, you would think so to if you were standing here in the driveway.

At a slow pace, I walk up the paved, nicely by the way, walkway. I stared at the doorknob, even it's so obnoxious it makes want to cry and I reached up to ring the doorbell.

After ten seconds of standing here, I hear footsteps coming to the door and it swings open.

Oh. My. God. My mouth just drops.

This has to be the wrong house, seriously.

In front is at least a six feet tall guy with raven hair and dark, tired eyes. I then notice one important fact. He. Is. Shirtless!

His skin is so pale on his chest which is very sexy. He wasn't too muscular, but just the right amount to make him hot. The guy only wore jeans with a black belt, even though they still hung on his slim hips, giving me a slight view of his boxers…

And he just looks and me and says. "Sorry, we don't want anymore Girl Scout Cookies."

My eyebrow twitches. There is silence between us. I open my mouth but another voice interrupts.

"Oh my god more Girl Scout Cookies! Do you guys have Chocolate Truffle yet?" A blonde guy races to the door and peeks in front of the other shirtless guy at me. His blue eyes stare at me and then at the other guy.

"Oh, so you're another ex, I get it."

My eyebrow twitches but before I can say one word another guy comes through rambling.

"Okay, I'm not paying this time. But can we get the Thin Mints?" His long, sexy brown hair hung down in a low ponytail and his purple pupil-less eyes stared at me and then at the raven head. Then the blonde whispers very loudly. "I think she's one of Sasuke's ex's!" Oh, and did I mention that he was shirtless too?

Both of my eyebrows twitch.

And then yet one more guy that just isn't wearing a shirt comes up behind the last guy. His eyes tired and his hair tied in a high spiky ponytail.

"Girl Scout Cookies are so troublesome, they're not even that good." His eyes wonder at me and then this Sasuke guy in front of me.

"Another ex?"

This time I sigh and calmly respond. "No, I'm not his ex."

"So, are you like selling cookies then?" The blonde retorts.

I just let out a scream, a frustrated one, because frankly these guys aren't getting the picture. All of a sudden a pair of hands cover my mouth and I'm pulled inside the house. I didn't know who was pulling me but I just landed on a couch with all these guys standing in front of me like I'm about to be tortured.

"This has got to be the wrong house, the wrong house." I'm panicking because I've seen this on movies, where the girl doesn't make it outside the house...?

"If you're not my ex and not selling cookies then what are you here for?" The raven head asks.

"The dorm assigner person said that there's an extra room here for me to stay. But I think I have the wrong place." I get up and push past them to head for the door. But before I can even get my hand on the doorknob the pupil-less guy places his back on the door.

"We do have an extra room here." He says thoughtfully.

"But I have the address. It's 5624 Ocean Avenue?" I read off the paper and look up at the pupil-less guy and then at the others.

The blonde raises an eyebrow and shoots Sasuke a look before turning back to me. "Well, you're in the right place."

This has got to be just one big conspiracy against me.

God…why me?

A/N: So, is it cool, awesome, weird? Please let me know. I just posted this cause I'm just excited for it I guess, I'm being spontaneous. This story will not be long about ten chapters I'm guessing. It'll be fun. So:

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