Chapter 1 Flings
"Hey Crane! Got any plans for tonight?" Dale said in thick mancunian accent. Niles Crane sat on the suede sofa of the dorm room he shared with his roommate at Cambridge, reading one of his favorite, and in his opinion best written books of all time A Tale of Two Cities. He was so engrossed in his book that he didn't hear Dale's question.
"Crane!" he shouted. Niles suddenly jumped startled by his roommate's screams.
"What?" he responded.
"Do you have any plans tonight?"
"Oh, no. I think I'll just stay in have a quiet night reading my book."
"I swear Crane; you're a bloody old git. My grandfather gets more action than you and he's 80. You leave Sunday man! Find yourself a girl, have a fling, do something!"
Niles ignore his friend's crude suggestion and turned back to his book. "Have a good time Dale."
"You damned right I will," he said grabbing his jacket and slamming the door behind him, making all the items hanging on the wall swing from side to side.
Niles was a psychiatry student at Cambridge University, about to finish the semester in less than 24 hours. He'd been at Cambridge University for a year, going back to the states for special occasions like his parents' or brother's birthdays, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. Unlike his roommate Dale who liked to party almost every night of the week and went to London quite often to the clubs, Niles liked to spend his days exploring the city, going to museums, and doing his schoolwork. During his time at Cambridge, Niles had had the pleasure of meeting many beautiful women who would only see him as a friend and who constantly rejected his requests for dates. After so many rejections, Niles had given up on dating for a while and decided it was best for him -and his ego- to stay in and catch up on his reading. Still he couldn't help but feel envious of his Casanova friend and roommate who could easily get women to date him. Niles had never been a confident individual but he never gave up on the hope that someday, he too would find somebody to love. Tomorrow would've been his last day of classes and thought it pointless to go out and have a "fling", as Dale so crudely put it, with a girl he was never going to see again.