Chapter 5
It's the first day of college and everybody was standing on the campus grounds and Rikki said "Well today's the day." "The first day" Cleo started, "of the rest" Bella continued, "of our lives" Emma finished "Yup let's go." Jake said. And with that they were off to their classes. Jake had computer sciences and business economics and Cleo and Lewis had marine biology together. Will has started zoology while Bella is taking classes to become a music teacher. Emma is studying to become a primary school teacher while Rikki is taking business economics. Jake has the first round of classes in the morning with Jake taking computer sciences first for half the morning from 7:00am to 10:00 am and gets business economics with Rikki for the second half from 10:15 am to 12:00 pm leaving them both with the afternoon off. Everybody else has their classes from 11:00 am to 5:00 pm. Jakes computer science class went well and soon it was time for business economics and both Rikki and Jake had the same class. Jake had taken a break in the lounge and fell asleep while Rikki had gone for a morning swim cuz she had the morning off but lost track of the time and was soon running across campus saying "Oh my god I can't believe I lost track of the time!" and she made her way across campus and half way there decided to use the cafeteria as a shortcut but half way through the cafeteria she tripped over a pair of legs hanging off a chair with none other than Jake fast asleep! "AAHH!" she screamed and fell flat on her face and Jake woke up totally surprised saying "What the-" but he slid off the chair and fell flat on his butt saying "OW!" and he stood up and saw that out of all the people who coulda tripped on his feet it was none other than Rikki. When he saw her on the ground he exclaimed "Oh my god! Did you trip over me? I'm so sorry Rikki!" and he helped her up and started to help her pick things up and when they were done he asked Rikki what time it is and she said "10:10am I gotta get to class see ya later." "10:10am huh? I've got a class in a few minutes too. See ya!" and he used his superspeed and ran to his business economics class and stopped right outside the door and walked in and saw the clock say 10:13am and sat in class and got his books out and a few minutes later Rikki ran through the door just a couple minutes too late and much to Jakes surprise they were in the same class. You're late miss Chadwick." said their professor. "Sorry" said a slightly embarrassed Rikki and she sees Jake sitting at a desk pointing to the desk next to him and she sits down and Jake said "I guess you made it to class." "Yeah but I didn't expect you here." she said "Likewise" he responded and then they went on with the class and when class was over Jake said "Why don't we go for a swim?" and Rikki replied with "Sure I could really go for a nice swim!" "Okay then why don't we go to my place? I live on a beach." "Okay I guess." so they walk to Jake's Jeep and get in and Jake says "This'll be fun." so he pulls up to a mansion and gets out and says "You coming or not? "This is your place?" Rikki says with a surprised smile and says "Wow this mansion is even bigger than Zane's place before he moved!" (Start Flashback) "Rikki This is your last chance to get back together with me cuz soon I'm off to college in Britain." Zane said "Good riddance! I finally don't have to be bothered by you anymore! And I'm glad Sophie's gone too!" replied Rikki. Sophie had moved across the country for a great job opportunity so Rikki was happy she didn't have to see her anymore. (End Flashback)
"Who's Zane?" Jake asked "Oh an old boyfriend. We used to own a café together called Rikki's café and when we broke up the business went underwater and he caused a lot of trouble for us. He moved away and frankly I'm glad he's gone." Rikki replied "Oh okay. Well let's go swimming now." Jake said "Wait a minute I wanna check out your place." Rikki said "umm okay I guess." so they went inside and Jake showed her around his place including a home theater system that looked like it belonged in a movie theater and a massive movie and tv show library along with some great video games. Then he showed her the kitchen with an overstocked fridge, pantry, and cupboards and his queen sized bed in his master bedroom. And soon they were done and jake asked "Now can we go swimming?" and Rikki said "Okay and they went outside and Jake said "Oh by the way I own this beach for several kilometers either way from my mansion" and Rikki said "All of this is yours?" and he said "Yup." so then he jumped in the water and they swam to the reef and when they got there Jake said "Man the reefs here in Australia are even better than the one in California!" and he swam through a particularly colorful part of the reef and Rikki said "yeah these reefs are pretty great. I'll race you to mako!" and Jake and Rikki simultaneously counted down "three…two…one!" and they were off! Rikki started out in the lead but then Jake caught up and started to take the lead when Rikki said "oh no you don't!" and sped up then jake said "I'm not gonna lose!" and they split up when they almost ran into a large rock and then on the other side of the rock Rikki saw Jake ahead of her and when she tried to move around him he blocked her while saying "Nope! I'm not letting you pass me!" every time she tried to move around him he'd block her until they got to mako when he had to make a sharp turn and she turned faster and passed him and went into the moon pool. And when he surfaced he congratulated her on her victory and they went back to the beach and he gave her a ride back to the dorms then went home for the day.