Getting into university was definitely a lot of hard work and never been easy for Savannah Lawson, who preferred herself to be resilient and unknown to the public. Fair complexion with perched nose, high cheekbones and sparkling brown eyes, she never considered herself popular and outstanding in schools. In fact she just wished she could breezed her way out of this hell and gained a degree in Economic. Next she going to get a job and end! Her hair was tied in braids and she comfortable wearing her huge glass.
During her first entrance registration to the academy, she was assigned to her hot senior, Austin Ryder who considered the most senior facilitator in the academy, already in his final year there. Austin was well-known there from Information Technology and Multimedia department, top-scorer for many years there and active in football and basketball. Fair-skinned, high-cheekbones, dreamy blue eyes with tall and muscular body, he was also famous among the girls there.
First time meeting him, Savannah was truly comfortable to befriend him and she discovered just how friendly, supportive and kind guy he was. She almost imagined him as her elder brother. He took her on a guide throughout the university, introducing her to fellow students and department staffs.
"By the way, if you need anything you can always contact me. I'm easier to find at my local studio just on level 3 of the west wing building," he said.
Phoebe just grinned hesitantly, "Well alright. Then I'll see you later. Thanks Mr Skylar." She walked past him and straight into her class. Skylar handed her his phone no that he wrote on a letter and she promised to call him if she needed him.
Inside the Literature class, she was introduced to few terrible clicks including the "Mean Girls" and "Wicked Jocks". These girls only cared about popularity, styles, prom and shopping and worse, they're blonde! The jocks group was smoking hot but had bad attitude. They loved to cheat on their girls and made it into a game to score as initiation. Oh great what have I got myself into.
During the gap between the previous lesson and afterward, Savi was approached by the leadr of the jock group Denison who was staring at her since she first entered the classroom. He offered her a handshake and introduced his gang consisted of Laurie, Leo, Henry & Chandler.
"So you are new here. Where are you from?" he asked her shakily.
"I'm just moved from Dallas and its my first day here," she confessed.
"Great then, maybe you can hangout with us sometimes!We had many new things that you might find exciting!" he nudged over her. That's annoying!
"I'll see if I can find time to hangout with you guys. Anyway thanks for the invitation. Although your girls over there don't look very welcoming," she joked.
During recess hours, Savi went to the West Wing building heading up to level 3 by taking the elevator. She finally found her way to the studio where she caught Austin doing a live broadcast on the air. The place was cozy and comfortable, the kind of space she looking for if she want to work on something. Austin welcomed her with a broad grin and let her to sit next to him, showing all the backstage pass aspects of radio deejay.
"You are very talented in this, I'm quite impressed!" she claimed.
"This is just a few things, I done more of the hardcore stuffs before I can say its a very challenging task." he admitted.
"Being student, facilitators, deejay, coach and magazine founder I'm really surprise how you got time to handle them all con-currently," she joked.
"Here's the deal. I'll tell you the secret but promised me you won't tell anybody. It took me the whole day to figure out how my schedule work." he leaned over his chair and turn on the music.
Just a few minutes later, Keith the junior deejay came in and greeted them and Austin asked in to cover him up for an hour. "How about I buy you a lunch, we talked about it there?"
Phoebe nodded, "Hmm, sounds like fun. I'm all for it!"
He rose up and packed up his stuffs, "All right, perfect. Let's get outta here!"
In the cafe, Austin treated her cheeseburger and fries while he had summer sausages and scrambled eggs. As he was pouring coffee to both of the cups, he winked at a girl nearby. She laughed and walked in, heading straight to them.
"Savi, this is Lily Leonetti from the art class. She's one of the famous junior students here and one of your seniors too. If you needed all the girly stuffs you can ask her," he pointed out.
"Yeah right, I got nothing to do this semester and God, its awfully boring!" she snorted. Savi noticed she had her nails polished and colored.
"Wow, that look stunning. Where did you get that?" Savi asked spontaneously.
Lily stunned for a while, "You mean this?" pointing at her colored nails. "I got them at Vera Manicure just few blocks from here. I can take you there, no problem at all."
Savi jumped in joy, "Awesome!I'm looking forward for that!"
After the trio finished their meals, Austin excused himself to accompany Savi to her classroom and Lily gave her number to Savi for future contact. Being in university didn't sound so bad.
"Alright, so we already here. Take care, beauty!" he waved goodbye and blew a kiss over her.
Stunned with his action and the word 'beauty' coming from his lips, she strode off happily back into the classroom.
Inside, she noticed the boys and girls were busy gossiping with one another and she manage to pickup one of their conversation that concerned her. They were talking about her friendliness with their senior.
"Looks like you are spending most of your quality time with Sr Skylar. Do you on something with him?" Denison asked teasingly.
Savi tried hard to ignore the silly questions but he kept on following her and now he stood at her desk, treating her like criminal. "What?I didn't do anything illegal!" she pleaded.
"You said you are too busy to hangout with the rest of us. But you seemed to be so free to spend time with him," he accused.
"You know what?I don't have time for this. You want to pick on a lady go pick on someone else!Screw you all!"she blurted. Suddenly an unexpected shakiness hit them when suddenly the books from the cases flew across the room and hit everybody there except Savi. Then the lights exploded one by one and leaving the room dark for once.
"What did you do freak!"Denison accused Savi on the occurrence. Now everybody looked at her with this weird way as if she was the one causing the incident. She bolt out from the classroom and headed outside then she ran straight to the girls' restroom and cried out loud.
Once she finished, she packed up her things and went out before accidentally bumped into Austin again. Noticing her runny mascara, Austin held her, "What happened to you. Did any of the students pick on you?" He smiled reassuringly at her and followed her to the library. She told him about the incident and how she was teased for being too close with him. He chuckled and patted her back.
"They are jealous. Trust me on that. I never let them get too far with me so they been intimidated that I befriended one of the junior and they want to cast you out from their group," he said. "Tell them this, fuck them!"
Savi felt a lot better after telling him and she really felt that brother-sister bond between them going stronger. He offered her a ride home and she accepted.
They left the academy after 6 and headed straight home. Hunter dropped her in front of her house and waved her goodbye. "Don't you want to come in and have some tea with my family?' she offered.
"Nope, that's okay. I'm running a bit late so I'll better go now. See ya tomorrow. Remember what I told you, okay?" he sped off and Savi went inside, locking the door from behind.
When she went up to her room, suddenly her mom Augustina called from the kitchen downstairs. "How's your first day there?" Savi tossed her bag and went downstairs to catch her mom cooking dinner.
"Well just great. Just that some students there act like such a jerk!" she confessed.
"Come on. Cheer up you'll go through it soon. I knew you'll do." she reassured her.
Phoebe sighed, "I hope so. But I met this great senior, more like a brother to me. His name is Austin and he was my facilitator there. He'd helped me a lot."
"That's great to hear. You'll fit in someday. Also bring him to our house sometimes. I would love to meet him!" Her mom seemed very determined to meet him.
"I have to tell him, but I won't promised anything as he is a very busy guy there!" she warned her mom.
The next morning Savi was coming late to the academy and luckily, Austin was on duty there that morning and he let her go by helping her pretending that she was sick. Savi was thankful to him and invited Austin for dinner tonight. He gave a wry smile and nodded saying he would come to meet her tonight as promised.
She went into her class and the reaction still the same she gotten yesterday, yet she still pretended as nothing happened and continued with her study. Denison sent out a threatening glance at her and she tried her best to ignore it. Emma from the "Mean Girls" clique gave her a warning look and continued with her activity. Now she completely felt uncomfortable.
When the bell rang, it was already recess time and Savi quickly packed her things up to get to Austin's studio as quickly to meet with him and Lily but Emma and her gang stopped her.
"Hey, loser!Where do you thing you were going?' she teased after blocking her path.
"None of your business!Just stay away from me." Savi gave a warning tone.
"Uuuhhh...we scared. Like hell!I saw you getting lovey-dovey with Denison yesterday. Be warned lady!He's mine!" she slapped her hard and Savi stumbled to the ground.
The rest of the girls laughed, "Ha ha ha ha, suit you!"
I hated college, she cursed to herself.