"Don't freak out!! It's not only me and you; we have more roommates, I just meant that I know where you have to go" Andrew said to me while I gather my breath back and my facal expression totally changes.
He offers to help carry my suitcase to the dorm. On our way, I apologize to him for my reaction while giving any explanation. He didn't say anything more than " It's okay" and continued walking. Once we made it to the stairs, he informed me of the dorm rules and how we were gonna share it with two other guys and girls.
"I haven't met either of the guys and only one of the girls. I don't really recall her full name, but she is really nice as well" He opened the door to this big apartment it wasn't just a dorm it was a house and the kitchen and living room were nothing compared to the rest of the place. Each of us had our own room while sharing a restroom between all of us that of course that didn't sound convincing at all but I guess it was better than to sleep with a stranger. I looked for the room with my named taped on the door and got all of my things inside.
It was a pretty nice room with full size bed, a desk, and a dresser; mostly everything that is needed. As I explore the rest of the dorm, I notice someone in the kitchen, a tall girl with long black hair prepping some food. She must be one of my neighbors from the dorm. Approaching the door to leave, she turns around, stopping me. "Hi, you must be Arizona. My name is Eliza."
I turn back toward her, "Yea that's my name. How do you know my it?"
"You just came out from the room that was assigned to you." she replies.
"That's right, my bad. Well, it's nice to meet you Eliza." I said as I shake her hand, she looks me directly in the eyes and telling me to call her Eli. Apparently I wasn't as subtle as I thought while trying to end this conversation because she just smile and says, "l'll let you go seems that you are in a hurry to leave." I smile, and go to respond but am cut off by Andrews appearance telling us to be ready for tonight. We both turn, giving him a confused look.
He notices our confusion so he continues, "We are having a get together tonight so we can introduce and get to know each other."
"Okay." We respond a the same time.
"Great! I'll see you guys there." he says and walks away. I turn around saying bye to the brunette and leave the dorm. Outside the building, I approach April and Alex who were apparently waiting for me. We decide to take a walk around the campus and look for our classrooms so we had a sense of where each one was located which took up most of the evening. We found this little coffee shop in an ally a few streets back from the school. I checked the time and it was almost 10 o'clock. I remember what Andrew told us so I turn around and told my friends that I had to leave. Quickly making my way back to the dorms, I run over someone at the stairs once again today.
"I'm sorry, go ahead." he said as I stopped. "Thanks" I say walking pass him and opening the door to find Andrew and Eliza sitting down on the couch. "Hey guys sorry I'm a little late." Eliza stands up, giving me her sit.
"Actually you are not, we are waiting for everyone else. Apparently everyone forgot about it. Would you mind joining us for a glass of wine?"
"Sure, only if it's white." I say as I sit and look at her. She always has this bright perky smile as if a completely different world is happening in her head. She seems to be a nice person to hang around, same as Andrew. I wonder how the rest of our roommates look and if they're nice. As I grab the glass of wine from Eliza, the door opens and the same guy I ran into while coming here enters the dorm. "Hey Drew, I'm sorry guys I had to make call and it ended up taking a while." He fixes his eyes on Eliza and I, "I believe you two are my roommates, right?" He says as he approaches us. "Two beautiful lady's, my name is Jackson." He turns his attention to just me, "Didn't I just run into you?" He asks.
Before I can answer Andrew cuts in, "So you like to run into guys Arizona?" he asks as he gets up and gets another glass of wine. As I roll my eyes at him I can't help but to see that Eliza has a questionable facial expression while waiting for an answer.
The door burst open with the rest of our roommates. Maggie, someone I went to college with for the first year and if I'm not mistaken the other guy is Derek Shepherd, one of the top students in this University. "Hey guys, welcome." he says. Apparently we have a third year student in our dorm. I guess we need supervision or something. "Eliza did you give them the tour without me?" He refers to her like if they knew each other before this moment. I would be lying if I said that I didn't feel a bit intrigued but I guess by the familiarity of their talk, there's history between them.
"Actually, no i didn't have the pleasure to do that since no one has actually been here for more than 20 minutes during the day." She has this demanding attitude with power in her voice, it's intriguing. Derek gets a glass of wine as he starts to move around the room, pulling out his phone.
He tells us that it is a pleasure to meet us and that basically everyone knows who he is but that we actually need the complete explanation.
"Eliza, here, is a second year student and we have been assigned to this group to help you guys for a few months or until the end of the year, it's up to you guys. In my case, I'm not only going to be tutoring I, also, offer my friendship and knowledge in equality."
He seems to be honest and a great person, I like this guy well no more than I like his sister but no one needs to know that. That thought runs on my mind with a smile on my face. I feel Andrews voice in my ear and I drop of my cloud where I left Amelia Shepherd. "Are you going to become one of his fans?" He ask sarcastically.
"Well guys tonight we want to get to know each other, basically talk about classes, teachers, and whatever that comes in the moment." The evening went by smooth talking about medical stuff, career goals, and what teachers were the best on campus. For us four as freshman, we got Meredith Grey as our Anatomy and Neuroscience professor, Richard Webber for Biochemistry, Addison Montgomery for Embryology, Teddy Altman for Immunology, Callie Torres for Human Behavior and Genetics, Erica Hahn for Psychology, and Mark Sloan for Cell Biology. From what I know so far, these are the best teachers you can have to help obtain your medical career.
Time flew by quickly between the talk and the wine. I realized that the only one that didn't share a lot about their life was Eliza and it made me curious, "Well guys, we should call it a night since we need our energy with the start of classes tomorrow, and we need a restroom schedule since it's only one here. There are two showers, one toilet, and two sinks. Oh! Just a heads up, whoever has Dr. Torres for first class, be on time. Punctuality is the key for her AND don't miss Psychology with Hahn. Those two have an agreement or something against students." With that said, Derek walked to his room leaving us with a concern face.
"It's going to be okay, it takes a little bit of time to adjust to everything. Goodnight Arizona." I hear in my ear, and with that she disappeared to her room. I looked at Maggie who seems to be tipsy. After guiding her to her room, I went to my room feeling like my brain was about to explode with all the information I took in tonight, Just as I feel myself dosing off, I can't help but feel so intrigued by the personality of my brunette roommate, and that's how I know it's going to either be a good or horrific year.