Lilette and Nicki woke up the next morning and grabbed some breakfast before going to Freshman Orientation.

"Ok those breakfast sandwiches were way better than the ones we have back home!" Lilette exclaimed as the girls walked down the sidewalk.

"That's because they were made with New York bagels." Nicki replied, also thinking about how good they were. "New York City is known for their amazing bagels."

The two girls continued walking until they caught up with a small group of boys who looked like they were also headed to orientation. When Lilette got a closer look, she noticed one of the boys looked very familiar.

"Michael?" Lilette called out.

The boy turned around. He thought the voice sounded familiar. "Lilette?"

With the initial shock quickly fading, the two immediately hugged.

"What are you doing here?!" Lilette asked, still very surprised to see him.

"Oh, you know, just trying to become New York's newest lawyer." Michael laughed a little. "I'm majoring in pre-law. I want to be able to help people whose rights and privileges are always being taken away, specifically the LGBT community. What about you?"

"Awe. Michael, I think that's great! And I'm majoring in theatre." Lilette replied and then asked, "What about Sasha? Is she here with you?"

"Of course you are. Next to Simon and Gwen you were Stanton's little star." Michael poked fun at Lilette. "And unfortunately no. I wish she could've come but it would've been impossible with Maggie. And she got enough scholarships to completely pay for community college, so she's doing that and then going to Penn State."

"That's awesome! How old is Maggie now? I haven't seen you guys since her baby shower, but I've been trying to keep up on Facebook. And speaking of Simon and Gwen, how are they doing?" Lilette bombarded Michael with questions. She felt guilty for not keeping up with her friends the way she should have.

"What is this, 20 questions?" Michael joked. "I'm kidding. Maggie is a year and a half. She'll be two in February. And I'm sure you've seen on Facebook that Gwen and Gordy are still together. They are doing a sort of long distance thing as well. Gwen is at Penn State and Gordy is at community college with Sasha. As for Simon and Jeremy, they are also still together. Jeremy went to California for film school, and if I'm remembering correctly..."

Michael trailed off and nodded toward a kid up ahead. He called out, "Hey Simon!"

The young man turned around and smiled, knowing exactly who called him. He lightly jogged over to the small group.

"Hey Michael!" Simon hugged Michael. As he did, he noticed a familiar face off to his side. "LILETTE!"

"SIMON!" Lilette wrapped her arms around him as tightly as she could. She loved having her best friend back in her life.

"I can't believe you're here! What are you doing here?" Simon asked excitedly.

"Same as you it looks like. My new roommate Nicki and I are headed to orientation." Lilette said before stopping for a moment. She realized something. "Crap! Nicki I'm so sorry. Everyone this is Nicki."

"Hey guys." Nicki replied. "And Lilette don't worry. You're just excited to see your friends again."

The small group continued down the sidewalk until they got to the area in Central Park listed on the Orientation map.

"Look at all these kids!" Lilette said what the group was thinking. Along with themselves there looked to be another 500 freshman standing around socializing.

As they walked around looking for somewhere to sign in, they found another familiar face.

"Jolene!" Michael, Lilette, and Simon all screamed at once.

"Hey guys!" Jolene walked over to the group. "OMG LILETTE!"

Lilette hugged her old friend. "I missed you! What have you been up to? What brings you to NYU?"

"Theatre, duh!" Jolene jokingly flipped her hair, pretending to be conceited.

"Me too!" Lilette said excitedly.

"Well then I guess you'll be coming with me to auditions this afternoon after orientation." Jolene said, then got the attention of the whole group. "Come on guys, sign in is this way."

All the kids signed in with the upperclassmen Orientation leaders and got broken up into groups to do fun "get to know each other" exercises. These included a treasure hunt around Central Park for NYU swag, trivia games about pop culture and New York City (the Stanton crew excelled at any question Broadway related), games in the style of the show "Minute to Win It," and once the groups came back together, they did a flash-mob style dance to the Cupid Shuffle. The kids all felt a little childish and stupid by the end of the day, but the activities served their purpose. Whether the new students became instant best friends or not, they could at least all get along and tolerate each other, which is all the orientation leaders cared about. After all the fun activities, the students were also told a little history about the school, as well as given a more in depth tour.

Since Lilette and Jolene got put into different groups, Jolene texted Lilette the address and directions to get to the theatre.

As she walked, Lilette listened to her audition song. She had it down completely, but she wondered if it was good enough. She had aced all of her auditions in high school, but this was different. This was the big leagues. She didn't have a plan B. Her whole life was theatre. She figured maybe she should take the rest of this walk to create that plan B, just in case things didn't go well.