Chapter 4, I like this one a lot. Please enjoy it.

"Luuuuuuuuuuce," A high pitched voice sang from above Luce making her scowl. She opened her sleepy eyes to see her auburn haired roommate sitting on a rolling desk chair above her, waiting for her to wake up.

"What?" Luce said sleepily, turning her back on her friend and burying her head in her pillow.

"You got some 'splaning to do still, Lucy." Nora sang and Luce grabbed her pillow and threw it at her friend. She was dead tired, after getting inside at nearly one a.m. who wouldn't be? And if she told Nora she could imagine what she'd think, which isn't what happened at all. Luce and Daniel just spent the whole night, well, talking. About everything and nothing, how Texas and California were so different, and how different the rest of the world was. They talked about their favorite books and singers and movies and they didn't stop until the owner of the restaurant told them they were closing donw for the night, the reason they had to leave.

"Do you know what time it is?" Nora asked, standing up, her hands on her hips. "It's elven forty six, Luce. Nearly noon. We have to get ready for class tomorrow, remember?"

That jostled Luce awake. She immediately sat up and hit her head hard against the top bunk bed, making her cry out.

"Graceful," Nora said approvingly, rolling back to her window still, grabbing a white piece of paper and scribbling something on it with a pen. She hopped off the still and onto the window, opening it and holding up the paper. There was an appreciative cry from outside.

"Jordan and Haley?" Luce asked.

"Nope," Nora replied, leaning back and closing the window. "Alyssa and Christi. They wanted to know when you woke up so we could all get some breakfast. Or in this case, lunch."

Luce rolled her eyes, pulling the blankets off her and rolling onto her feet as she walked over to her closet and pulled out a towel.

"You gonna take a shower?" Nora asked, without looking up. She was focusing on making an intricate design on her nails with a black stencil.

"Yeah," Luce replied, walking over and grabbing her brush and tooth brush and some tooth paste. "I'll be back in like twenty minutes alright?"

"Mmmhmmm," Nora answered, holding something in her teeth.

Luce rolled her eyes, opening her dorm room door and walking outside. She was about half way there when she heard someone fall in step with her.

"Hey," A very familiar boy said and she turned to see a dark haired boy with amazing emerald green eyes standing there. Max.

"Hi," Luce said coyly, and started walking a bit faster.

"You're Lucinda right?" Max asked, keeping step with her, completely oblivious to the fact she did not want him there.

"It's Luce, actually." Luce replied quickly. She was almost at the bathroom, just a few more seconds of awkward confrontation.

"Luce," Max repeated, tasting the word on his tongue. The action made Luce shiver and not the way she did with Daniel, with fear. A fear she didn't understand nor did she want to. "That's pretty,"

"Thanks," Luce replied briskly, she was almost to the door.

"My name's Max," He said, holding out his hand, which Luce could see vaguely out of the corner of her eye. Don't be rude, she thought and stopped, holding back a sigh and grabbed his hand, shaking it twice before releasing it.

"I know," Luce admitted, taking her hand back and turning to talk the rest of the way to the bathroom alone. She'd gotten to the door pretty quickly and managed opened it to when Max grabbed it and kept it open.

"What?" Luce asked hoping she didn't sound to mean, but this boy was getting on her nerves.

"I….I'm sorry," Max said, taking a step back. "I don't know what came over me," He sighed. "I saw you at the party. Actually, I've seen you a lot. Like at the freshman orientation. I think you're cute and maybe you'd want to hang out or something. I didn't mean to like stalk you across the hallway."

Luce gave him a doubtful look. "I wonder what you're girlfriend will say about us hanging out?"

Maxx shook his head. "Oh lord, you heard about that." He gave her a small wistful smile. "Look. I'm going to try to level with you, alright? Lily is not my girlfriend. She was, last year but when I got into emerald and she didn't she demanded that I didn't go and stayed there with her. But when I wouldn't she told me that she'd break up with me if I left and I thought maybe that was best. I wanted to kind of reinvent myself when I got to college, try to be a better person and then when I get here I hear about all these people who are supposed to be spying on me for her, making sure I don't do anything and going around telling people I'm a player." He sighed. "It just sucks, okay? I never wanted any of this, and I don't think I want you to get involved either. I'm sorry,"

"I'm sorry too," Luce said quietly, feeling her heart break. She felt honestly sorry for the boy, who hadn't asked to be stalked by his crazy ex. Maybe he wasn't even a player; maybe it was just rumors that said he was one. But didn't Nora know more about him? She'll have to ask later. "No one deserves that,"

Max's smile widened slightly, seeming more genuine. "Thanks," He leaned against the doorway where Luce was standing. "So, you want to hangout whenever?"

Luce shrugged. "I'll think about it," Was she flirting? After she'd just been on the most amazing date ever with the most amazing boy she'd ever met? Get a hold of yourself girl.

"Cool," He said with a grin, reaching into his pocket and pulling out a green guitar pick which he handed to her. "It has my room number on it."

Luce reached out and took the pick from Max, looking down at the number printed on it. 13.

"Lucky thirteen, right?" Max asked, giving her a small chuckle.

Luce nodded, her fist tightening around the small piece of colored plastic. "Thanks Max,"

"No problem, Luce." Max replied softly and then just waited as if he wanted to say more, but didn't. "I'll see you around, alright?" He turned around and started walking down the hallway and Luce turned around and shut the door, just realizing now the pick in her hands was the exact same shade as Max's eyes.

The end, yay Cam is back, and hopefully he will be more Cam-yier later. Please review?