Lexa's POV
"Hurry up, loser ! Don't want to be late for first day of college", my brother Alec yelled from the driving seat.
"Yeah just a second..", I whispered to myself as I ran my fingers over my journal. Did I want to take this with me? It had all my feelings of all these years written in it. Did I want to let go as yet? I couldn't just leave it and let my aunt find it. I took a deep breath closing my eyes as I shoved the book in my bag and ran out.

Sitting down in the car to see Alec jamming to Black Eyed Peas, really?
He sensed my disapproval to his music taste and drove rolling his eyes.

An hour later we arrived at East High College and boy was I nervous already. The huge building had red flags symbolising wildcats as their mascot.
I stepped out and slammed the door shut.
"Whoa..easy, this baby ain't cheap", Alec stroked the hood of this car.
"Yeah, I-just, sorry", I said shaking my head and wiping my sweaty palms on my jeans.
Alec walked over to me and handed me my suitcase, yeah thanks I get it I'll carry my own shit. Walking over to the office we recieved our schedules, dorm locations and college extra curricular actives routine. Wow, they really had the year planned.
"Here's your room", Alec whispered turning the knob to open the door.
"Thanks", I managed to choke out as I walked in and set my bags on the bed.
The room was a nice shade of blue and the windows had a black frame. Two beds placed divided the room into somewhat two equal territories, a side table and a small lamp placed over it, lastly there was a long study table which had a vase on it, empty. I noticed another suitcase that didn't belong to either Alec or I. I figured that would be my roommate.
"Okay, my dorm is in the other tower that is probably not so far away from here.", Alec furrowed his thick eyebrows in confusion.
"You suck at maps as much as I do", I say as I walk over and glance at the paper. Yikes.
"I'm still smarter than you so yeah, bye!", he said as he shut the door and left me standing alone in the middle of the peculiar smelling room.
I followed the smell, a fruity scent took me towards the bathroom. Suddenly, the door opened to show a boy who was almost as tall as I am.
"Oh hey! Are you my roommate?", he asked happily.
All I could do was nod admiring the light pink eye shadow that coated his eyelids.
"You're staring, also yes I know my makeup is flawless. I'm Magnus.", he reached his hand out.
"Hi, I'm Lexa. Nice to meet you.", I say shaking his hand. He let go of my hand to sit on his bed, tying his laces.
"Where are you going?", I asked. I sucked at conversation starters. Was this even conversation starter?
"Um..classes start in two hours, till then I'm going to look around campus and interact with Homo Sapiens. You wanna join?", he asked looking up.
I shrugged and he chuckled as we both made our way out.
The halls were jam packed with people, their luggage, some even brought their own pillows?
"Oh hey, Blakes!", Magnus screamed in my ear before he ran towards two people, a boy and a girl, standing against their lockers. Making my way to them I got a better view of the pretty girl and the tall muscular boy.
"Hey, who are you?", the girl with the brown hair spoke looking at me up and down.
Before I could answer Magnus spoke.
"Guys, this is my roommate Lexa and Lexa these are the Blakes, Bellamy and Octavia. Bellamy and I have been best friends since third grade so there's that."
"What are you guys studying?", Bellamy spoke gesturing his hand towards me.
"Pre-Engieneering but I've also taken English Literature as an extra.", I say.
"Alright! That sounds cool, I'm more of a social science kind of guy so Sociology and Psychology are my majors", he smiled widely. He sure was a very joyous person which brought a smile into my face too.
"Oh, I'm an art whore, art this, art that, it's my passion and I love it", Magnus chirped and we all laughed at his choice of words.
"Your sketches are the best, honestly. I want to be a writer or like an actor I haven't really decided but I hope to find my way this year. Literature, Drama, Music and other small activities shall be my burden this year", Octavia says shifting her glances between Magnus and I.
These people were nice so far, hopefully being away from home would bring me a chance to think about things and move on from my past, from the things I did, I saw, the actions I carried out, that one person I hurt, I hope she doesn't remember me since we were young at the time but pain is pain and it's pretty heavy to just shake off. I wasn't exactly proud of the rigid ball of rage I had sort of allowed myself to become but maybe it will get better, maybe someday I will be able to live for myself.

The bell rang indicating that classes are about to start. I spent the two hours hanging out with Bellamy, Octavia and Magnus eating pizza in the cafeteria and talking about alien conspiracy theories. Time table showed I had chemistry lab first. I sighed and got up excusing myself and saying bye to the others and made my way to the Lab. "Okay class today we will be working with different elements are the ways in which we can identify them", the teacher spoke in her high pitched voice.
"Excuse me miss, may I say that outfit looks really nice on you? Red is totally your color", a boy in a leather jacket said as he snickered with his Asian friend.
"Thank you, Jasper Jordan. Take your seat. This may be a first day dare but I do not appreciate these kind of comments from my students. I will now pair you all up with your lab partners for the year. Jasper Jordan and Monty Green, Anya Larkin and Lincoln Grey, Lexa Woods and Raven Reyes.", Miss Karen spoke on but my gaze searched the room hoping to find a Raven.
A brunette girl approached me holding various apparatus, who looked like she needed help. I held onto the conical flask that slipped from her grip.
"Hey thanks buddy", she spoke cheerily.
"It's no problem, are you Raven?"
"Yup, that is me. You must be Lexa, at least that's what the teacher told me when she pointed at you", Raven went on.
"Yeah. We should get started.", I say putting on my lab coat.
"You seem cool and all but I was hoping to being paired up with my boyfriend, Finn. I guess they pair us up with students according to our faculty. Finn is pre-medical, the blondie next to him must be too.", she gestured towards a boy who had long hair and blocked my view from the his partner who had blonde hair.
"I know he's hot but don't drool, now come on, I need help", Raven tapped my shoulder.
"Oh no, I was just trying to see his partner", I defended.
"Awh, tough cookie. I'm kidding.", she raised an eyebrow handing me a matchbox.
I chuckled lightly. Raven seemed like a nice friendly soul. For someone who was between being an introvert and extrovert I was sure as hell keeping up with all these new names and new faces.