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Clare's POV

The car ride was long and tiresome. I stopped for gas when I first left, and didn't need to fill it up again. So that meant I was literally stuck in the van for four hours. I didn't want to stop unless absolutely necessary, so I literally drove straight through. It was boring, but I had the radio so it wasn't that unpleasant. I just really wanted to get there.

When I arrived, I parked in the student lot meant for my dorm. Unfortunately, I was on the third floor so I had some walking to do with unloading, but I was too excited to care. I had my own room, and I got my own space where I could work on my writing. I also had looked at the floor plan when I got my room assignment and found out it was one of the largest single rooms on that floor.

I lucked out with that, but wasn't complaining. However, I was next to a double. So that could be troubling if they are loud. But only time would tell if they were. After I parked the van, I decided to go find my dorm. Then I would start moving the boxes into it.

I walked into the dorm and immediately, was surrounded by simplicity and elegance. The room was a basic lobby area that was a cross between a business and a home. It had the executive and formal edge to the furniture that gave everything a modest look. Two-seater sofas lined the walls sporadically, and were placed in clusters around the room.

The fixtures around the room, were what made it have a homey feel to it. The lights above were elegant chandeliers, but they were ones you would find in a home and it gave the room a nice glow. There were also giant, arched windows on both sides of the doors, the one I came in and the one opposite me. The sun was slowly setting, and it cast a warm glow over everything, mixing well with the chandeliers' light. There were people coming and going but for the most part no one was actually sitting in the lobby.

There was a door across from me, that lead into the campus itself, and two arch ways that lead in different directions on the adjacent walls. One went to the stairwells that lead upstairs, that I was currently heading towards, and one went to a few dorm rooms that specifically were singles and only upperclassmen can stay in those. Supposedly they were bigger.

Heading up the stairs, I passed by students that were heading in all directions. Currently, the majority of the students looked to be moving in. Some were with families, and most were moving things into rooms. Some of the students looked like they were heading to classes, and even though most students didn't start until the fall semester began, others either continued from the spring into summer, or they started in the early admissions option.

I had that option, but that would have me moving here back in May and not now. Jake and I both believed it was too soon to do that, especially since I wasn't officially graduated yet. Granted I didn't even go to my own graduation, I still hadn't received my diploma yet, meaning that I wasn't technically a graduate until June.

When I arrived at my floor, I walked towards the area where my dorm was supposed to be, following a print out of the layout of the floor. It was given to me in the welcome package I received, in the mail a couple weeks ago. The package also included my room key. I found my room, it was located right in front of the bathrooms and to the right of the stairs.

When I unlocked it and went in, I saw that the room was bare, besides the actual furniture in it. It had a bed up against the right side of the room under the window. A wardrobe sat at the foot of the bed. On the opposite side of the room, was were the desk and the bookshelf sat side by side.

All of which I knew would be there, because it said so in my welcome package. There was also a micro-fridge combination, that I was renting through the school's discount, and it had already arrived and was set up. Everything else I had to bring with me.

After taking a good look around, I left the room, and decided to start getting my things from the van, since it was already getting dark outside. As I was closing the door, I bumped into someone walking by.

"Oh. Gosh. I'm so sorry. I wasn't looking where I was going." I exclaimed turning around to apologize to the person. It was a guy around my age, maybe a little older, and he was looking me up and down.

"Don't worry about it." He smirked. The smirk reminded me of Eli briefly, before I shook away the memory. "I'll see you around?"

"Yeah." I smiled briefly, as I watched him walk off. Right then, I knew I was going to like it here.