Chapter 1: New Life
He sat in his new apartment and looked at the outline of the city, to be honest he was meek and had no idea where he was or why he even bothered coming out here. To him this was all new and to be honest he even wished he was here right now.
He remembered getting a thing in the mail, it was a scholership to Kollage in New York due to his writing skills. Many art teachers were thrilled with one of his stories the one with the " scary neighbor man" and how it seemed he write from experience. They also wanted to see how well he would do with their creative writing courses.
He was estatic! He signed up right away didn't bother to tell his parents, ran up stairs and packed his bags and took the next bus to New York City. Of coarse that was last week and now even it felt as if he was only there for five seconds.
Todd walked out of his small secluded bedroom, tripping over boxes and 7/11 grocery store bags that were filled to make it out of his room and into the kitchen. He dodged his head seeing as now he was 6''3 from being so small during his childhood years, even though he was 19 now it still seemed to be new to him. The kitchen was just adjacent to the bedroom and was probably the biggest room in the house, wooded cupboards and floors, with jade colored counters covered the place perfectly. All he had right now was a fridge and and a small nightstand with a chair, he sighed as he walked to the fridge and grabbed an apple.
He walked down the clastropic hallway and into the living room, this room was his favorite out of his house only for one reason though. The whole front wall where the Tv was situated was just window which could make him see the street perfectly, while the other walls were painted pale orange and had old pictures that the tenants didn't take, he saw it as a house warming gift and planted himself on a leather couch he found out on the streets. It was in good shape, no bugs or rips in it at all. He took a seat as he grabbed the remote off of the armrest and started to flick through the channels when his phone started to ring, hestiently he stood up and walked back to his kitchen where the phone was situated.
" Hello?" His unusally small voice for an 19 year old answered.
" Hey Squeegee" A mild, male voice answered playfully, Todd hid a smile a bit as he laughed and returned back to the couch. It was Dale Perkins an newfound friend which he met in his Journalism class. He was a short, midly stubbed kid with brown eyes and scruffed red hair with tips of blonde highlighted through it. He had one ear pireced and had big lips for a guy, however he got along with Todd because of his warped humor.
" Hey man are you going to Sandra's party tonight? First week off baby might as well party for a bit" Even while talking Todd could imagene Dale dancing a little bit. he shifted a bit uncomfortably.
" I dunno man, I have to grab some stuff and I do have that job application tomorrow in the morning"
Dale did a boo at the other end before laughing a heartfelt laugh.
" I hear ya, anyways nothing much is going on, couple of drinks that's about it" Dale paused for a bit then contunied. " It's gonna be me, Sandra, Craig and Winny" Todd blinked at the name Winny.
" Wendy Grays? The vegan is going to the party tonight?" Todd asked quietly. Winny is a good friend of his, a small girl who is fairly tall for others of her age, even though she has a bossy air to her she is nice to Todd and his cluster of friends. She has green eyes and her hair is chocolate brown and she is a prep, already named head cheerleader in the first week of school she has the popularity hands down.
" Yep" Dale replied with a bit of a stifled laugh.
" That's a first, anyways shame I'm gonna miss it" Todd said before hanging up after Dale's goodbye. He placed the phone beside him on the couch and shifted so he was laying down, he pulled his quilt around him and slowly drifted off to sleep.
When he awoke it was much later in the afternoon it also took him by surprise to see a thunder storm had erupted during his slumber, pounded rain on the streets as well as his windows. Todd pulled the quilt off of himself and put it on the back of his couch, turned the Tv off and started to walk to his bathroom.
KNOCK, KNOCK, KNOCK,
It came to a surprise when he heard the knocking from his front door, he peered down the steps at the small porch, he had no windows near there but knew someone was at the door. He walked down and opened the door.
Drenched in front of him was a girl, about his age staring kindly at him. She had long blonde hair with neon pink streaks going down her body length ponytail and her scuffed bangs were covered with seaweed green dye. She wore a black sweater that had a belt around her red and black striped tank top, she also wore a codroy skirt with green and black striped leggings. Her eyes were a beatiful brown, through clattered teeth she smiled and polietly shook Todd's hands.
" I-I'm sorry to disturb you, b-but do you have an extra room for a new found Kollage student?"