Its fucking 2AM do not expect a long Author Note.

TRIGGER WARNING

II. Joy

Joy expected, at least, her parents to be for breakfast in this special day. But of course, they were not.
She found a note pasted to her Orange Juice glass: an emergency at work, had to leave early. Mum

Typical excuse, thought Joy, who by now was already used to this. She remembered when she was around the age of 5, and it would take her 2 minutes to read the note, she would think her parents were superheroes and they were somewhere out there saving the world. Of course, those thoughts soon banished, and she was left with the thoughts she still has and is so afraid of.

Joy grabbed her glass and started walking around the house. She had never liked to seat in the table to eat, she would rather walk around or watch TV. The fact that seating and being all alone, not having someone who would talk to her, someone who would ask her something, someone who would make her company while she ate, was the reason she would rather not seat and face a plain boring white wall. And it wasn't like she was going to eat anything, anyway.

Soon after, the orange juice had disappeared, and Joy went on search for her backpack. A taxi would be in her front door any time soon, and she would be finally on her way to University.
She wanted to have everything ready, she didn't want to forget anything important. She of course, had already checked her backpack at least 9 times but she was sure something was missing. She had that feeling in which she felt like she was forgetting something; she had always been like it, even if nothing was being forgotten. But then, there was nothing wrong in checking again.

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Don't Let Me Go by The Summer Set, blasted from her earbuds as she got off the taxi and paid the driver.
As soon as Joy got off the taxi she was amazed by Anubis University, it was enormous. The classrooms where in the centre it was two 6 floored building with at least ten rooms per floor. To the classrooms' left there was a football court, a basketball, American football, volleyball, and tennis courts too. To the right were the dorms, 6 tall building each one of five floors.

Joy watched as the taxi drove away and grabbed her luggage, which wasn't much to be sincere. Joy had never been one to want –need– a lot of clothing, of course, she didn't dressed in whatever she found thrown somewhere in her room, she did try to look somehow presentable and it didn't matter where she was going.

Joy went to the secretary room, she had problems arriving but she managed. She was told her dorm room and was given her timetable. She said her thanks and left. She had now to go to her room, which she didn't know where it was, she considered walking back in and asking for direction but she didn't want to talk to that lady again. Joy wasn't afraid of her, nor did she find her creepy, Joy just didn't like talking to strangers, much less and old woman who kept telling her what a lovely time she'll have and the amount of friends she'll make.

Joy walked for a while, completely lost, she felt stupid. She felt like the other teenagers who were walking through the university, were thinking of the lost newbie and laughing. She had always felt like people were looking at her every move, felt like they were judging her, felt like she was the reason of their laugher, and she hated it. She hated hearing her name and then hearing laugher, it made her think they were laughing at her, even if they mentioned her name 15 minutes before it, making her feel quite stupid.

She had no choice, she had to ask someone or she'll spend all her time wandering around Anubis University. She spotted a guy, who seemed her age, seating on a bench, reading a book: The Solar System Is Your Friend

Quite weird, thought Joy, to find a 17-years-old reading that kind of book.

Though, it was rare for Joy she found it funny. She let a tiny smile play on her face as she approached the boy. His hair was a dark –really dark– shade of brown, his eyes were a blue-ish green shade and they lighten up with every line he read of his book. He had an old brown messenger bag by his side with more books, which were slightly getting out of the bag.

As if noticing the sudden shadow, he looked up meeting his eyes with Joy's.

"Uh… may I help you?" he asked kindly, Joy noticed the nervousness on his voice and had the urge to smile a little thinking that that might be the way everybody hears her.

"Uh…" Joy hadn't thought what to say to the boy, she didn't know what to say and she was already nervous to talk to him–anyone really. "Can you help get to my dorm, I've just arrived and I'm quite lost" she had the urge to ran away from him in that moment, she had said everything so fast, barely taking a breath, that she thought he might think she was crazy,

Instead, he closed his book placed it on his bag, stood up and said in a still nervous voice "Oh sure. I'm Fabian, by the way. Anyway, which is your building letter?"

"I'm Joy" she said, a little bit less awkward this time. She checked the paper the secretary had given her, read it until she found the building letter "uh… Letter C"

He nodded and signalled her to follow; she didn't hesitate. Every once in a while Fabian would look back just to make sure Joy was following and send her a reassuring smile. They didn't talked in the way, and somehow it wasn't awkward, at least not for Joy. The walk wasn't long though, soon enough they were in front of building letter C.

"Here you are" he said, "mind if I ask your room number?"

"Not really" she looked through the papers again "twenty-eight" she finally said

"I'm pretty sure that is on the second floor" he sent her a smile and said "Well nice to meet you, Joy, maybe I'll see you later" with that he turned on his heel and walked away.

Joy stared at the building for a while before finally walking in. She wanted, and at the same time didn't, to meet her roommate. She just hoped for it not to be a nosy roommate who would look through her things or grabbed her things.

She found her room, just as Fabian had said, on the second floor. Surprisingly, the door was open and Joy quickly walked in. Joy had thought she'll find an empty room or a girly girl with a pinky bed set, but what she found was the total opposite. Black and red luggage in a corner of the room, a bed half made and a redhead seating in it, who as soon as she saw Joy said:

"Who are you?"

Hope you liked it. By the way, I don't know how Uni is so if you are a University student, and know I've got something wrong please don't hesitate in telling me. Now I should go to sleep.

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