Chapter 1
Sweat is dripping from her head, she never thought moving would be this difficult and tiring. She has just unpacked the last box when she heard her roommate enter the room.
"Mary, you've been in this room all day, you should go out, have some fun!" Kenna said with a cheerful tone
Kenna, her roommate is also a first year student; she's majoring in English and arrived in the dorm a day earlier than Mary.
"Yes mum" Mary said jokingly
"and I would only arrange some things and decorate a bit then I'm done" Mary added
"Yes! Does this mean that you'll come with me?" Kenna asked
"come to where?"
"there will be a party near the campus tonight, it's a great opportunity to meet new friends!" Kenna said, the excitement reflecting in her voice
"nahh, I'll pass" Mary said
"Why, are you busy or something?" Kenna said clearly disappointed
"I'm just not into it" Mary said while transferring her books to the shelf next to her bed
"someone's an introvert" Kenna said, trying to convince Mary
"I am not! I'm just… I don't know, I'm not really good at socializing with other people" Mary said
"You'll be fine, you're going with me and that's final" Kenna said as she walks to Mary and puts away the books on Mary's bed
"You can continue arranging your things tomorrow" Kenna said
Mary shot Kenna a disapproving yet challenging look
"Don't look at me like that, I promise, you won't regret it" Kenna added
* 4 hours later*
"it's too crowded here!" Mary said almost shouting
"Well duh Mary, it's a party, of course lots of people will be here" Kenna said
Mary is wearing black high waisted shorts and a creamy white crop top, which makes her uncomfortable, she thinks it's too short yet she wore it anyway
"Do I look fine to you?" Mary said
Kenna rolled her eyes
"Are you seriously asking me that question? With legs like that, boys would be drooling as soon as they saw you" Kenna said
"I'm serious Kenna" Mary said
"I am too, now stop looking so nervous and go talk to someone" Kenna said
"Yes…MUM" Mary said as she smiles at her friend, it's really comforting knowing that Kenna's here, she's been in the campus for three days and so far she only has… one friend ha! What an achievement, she said to herself
After few minutes of walking past through the crowd, she finally found a chair to sit on, there will only two vacant chairs in sight and she feels so lucky for finding the last two ones just in time
So much for finding someone to talk to and there's no way she's going back to that crowd, she feel so squished and her feet hurt from walking so much. Kenna is nowhere to be found and she feels so awkward sitting here all alone
"hey" she heard a deep voice but she didn't bother to know where it came from, she's practically invisible right now, who would even talk to her
"hey, are you alone?" A guy with curly blond hair asked her, his British accent noticeable
"who, me?" Mary said clearly shocked that someone actually acknowledged her existence
"No, I was actually talking to the chair" the guy said
"oh" Mary said embarrassed
"yes you, silly" the guy said with a smile
"uhm no, I'm not alone, I came here with a friend" Mary said composing herself
"where is she now?" the guy said, his eyes were so blue , Mary could hardly form a coherent response
"how do you know it's a 'she'?" Mary said
"well a boy shouldn't leave a girl like you alone, that's what I know" the guy said
"I'm Francis by the way, Francis Valois… and you're?"
"Mary" Mary said, not wanting to prolong the conversation, she doesn't want to embarrass herself any further to this gorgeous blond beside her
"Just Mary?" Francis said
"Yeah, just Mary" Mary said, quickly looking away as if uninterested, she and Francis just sit there with an awkward silence
"Francis!" a blond girl shouted near the bottom of the stage
Mary was quite annoyed, she finally found someone to talk to then some girl just ruined it, well not exactly, she ruined it to be honest, this handsome guy came to talk to her and she suddenly go into to full dumb bitch mode Mary said to herself
"wait a sec!" Francis said to the girl
"hey look, I really hate leaving you here alone, but I really I have to go, it was nice meeting you, just Mary" he said and smiled one last time before he walks away
A few seconds later, Kenna came into view
"did you just sit there alone for the past hour?" Kenna said with disbelief
"maybe… maybe not" Mary said
"did you even talked to someone?" Kenna said
"well, technically yes… he talked to me first" Mary said
"where is he now?" Kenna said clearly interested
"uhm… he left, obviously. But enough about me, where have you been?" Mary asked
"I met someone, his name is Sebastian, Bash for short, and he's majoring in Civil Engineering" Kenna said gleefully
"well, at least one of us got lucky" Mary said throwing a smile to her friend
"they're setting up the stage, I guess the band will perform soon" Kenna said as looks to the stage
"what band" Mary asked
"the band with the gorgeous vocalist, they say he plays the guitar too but only on rare occasions" Kenna said
"well I hope he sings well" Mary said
"of course he does, that's why girls are drooling over him all over campus" Kenna said
"have you even met the guy?" Mary asked
"no, but I would LOVE to" Kenna said as she elbows Mary
"oh admit it, I know you do too" Kenna added
Mary just smiled to her friend, not really knowing what to respond
"There he is!" Kenna said with excitement
"that's the guy" Mary said completely shocked
"I told you he's gorgeous" Kenna said
"he's the one who talked to me earlier" Mary said still wide-eyed
"he did what?!" Kenna said almost screaming
"did you get his number, or did he get yours?!" Kenna added
"uhm no, maybe I was a little bit… cold to him" Mary said embarrassingly
"you did not just said that" Kenna stared to her friend, shock written all over her face
"I was nervous!" Mary said as though defending herself
"Good evening everyone" Francis said on the microphone, girls' loud screams followed, Mary and Kenna can barely hear the other things he said, when the cheering toned down a little bit, Francis spoke again
"My first song is dedicated to 'Just Mary'"