Author's note: Hey again... sorry that it has been forever... i have been on holiday and stuff, thats not really an excuse though :( i have been writing though so you'll get a few more chapters within the next couple of days... although not tomorrow or the day after as i will be away with school... anyway here is the next chapter with a focus on Emma, its pretty short and not very interesting but just bear with me.. hope you still enjoy it!
After Graduation: Chapter 14
Emma was settling into university life just fine. She liked having a regular schedule. Even though she had loved traveling the world, there were way too many surprises and random changes for her liking. She preferred a life with regularity, where she had most of the control. She loved all her classes and found them interesting and challenging. Emma loved challenges; she really felt she was learning something.
Life in general was treating her well, she loved all her professors and her roommate was easy to live with. Rosie was a real sweetheart, but also really shy. She mostly kept to herself, as if not wanting to bother Emma. It was nice considering it made it easier for Emma to keep her secret, well, a secret. However, Emma felt sorry for the girl, and often tried to engage in conversation and inviting her to do things together. She quickly found out that Rosie hadn't had a very easy time growing up, which was what had made her the way she was, but as time went on, Emma earned her trust and Rosie was slowly coming out of her shell.
Besides Rosie, Emma also made a couple of other friend. They were mostly girls who lived in the same corridor or who were in some of her classes. She also enjoyed their company, going out for drinks or shopping, or studying together. Emma felt good with these friends around her. Growing up she mostly only had Cleo and people from the swim team, as swimming took up such a large part of her life, and after that she only had her close knit of mermaid friends and the close people around them. Then when she was traveling the world, she basically only had her family to rely on as they moved from place to place so fast they never really had a chance to make new friends everywhere they went. That's why she felt good having a whole group f friends now. However, there was no way in hell they could replace her true friends back at the Gold Coast. She obviously missed them, especially Ash, but being a mermaid she sometimes swam down there to see them, although her time and excuses were limited. She did get to see Lewis quite regularly though, as they were not very far from one another. She was glad, because after all, she had known him almost as long as she had known Cleo, and she felt safe knowing that there was someone who knew about her secret. Just in case.