I know I'm off to a slow start, but i promise that everything will come into light soon. Please Read and Review.
"Students, Students, it's really very difficult to speak when it's 100 of you and 1 of me so if you could please be quiet so I could give you your first assignment for the semester, it would be much appreciated," shouted my anatomy lecturer Dr. Jackson.
"Hey, little birdie told me we have a newbies in town," whispered Monty who was sitting on my left.
"I thought they left new intakes for spring, newbies must be special," I replied as I took down the last of my notes.
After class finished, Monty and I packed up our stuff and headed outside, where my other two friends Raven and Jasper – whom I hadn't seen since I got back - were waiting. As soon as Raven saw me she came up and hugged me and said, "We don't have to talk about it if you don't want to. But what I would like to talk to you about is the juicier details of your vacation, how was Venezuela?"
"Please, I don't want to talk about that either," I replied.
"Was it that bad?" asked Raven, raising her eyebrows.
"Let's just say, it started of on a good note and ended sourly," I replied.
"Well, aren't you going to ask me how was mine?" asked Raven.
"Ohh….I got so tied up in my own mama drama that I completely forgot to press you for details. How was NASA?" Raven was majoring in aeronautical engineering and she was one of the lucky few to have gotten through to do an internship at the space agency. How did we become friends? Well, let's just say we met under unfortunate circumstances; my first year at UCLA I dated her now ex-boyfriend, Finn Collins, while he was still seeing her, and when we realized he played us both, we began to bond over ways to destroy the sneaky son of a bitch. After, we just started bonding over everything, boys, clothes, shoes, school, life and the list goes on. It was through Raven that I met with Jasper, the biochemistry major and Monty who was going into home medicine. The four of us had remained together since then, prompting Jasper to refer to us as the Awesome Foursome…a reference I didn't agree on.
"NASA was nice, made some new acquaintances," she started and then looked at me, "met a guy. They also offered to hold a minor vacancy for me after I finish my degree. It's minor, but it's NASA. Who doesn't want to work for NASA. If I was offered to mop their floors I would do it." This is what I loved about Raven. She sets her eyes on something she wants and she goes for it. She had enough enthusiasm for both of us. She was strong and independent and willful. Raven continued talking about her internship and I didn't mind listening. But something urged me to look forward as we walked down the corridor and that was when I saw…him. It was like seeing a ghost. I stared with my eyes opened wide when I noticed that he saw me too. Brown eyes, hair slicked back and that damn devilish grin that you can never miss. It was like he was burdened with some kind of glorious purpose because you can't possibly look so good. But he walked right pass me, as though we were strangers, when we were far from that.
"Clarke," Raven snapped her fingers in front of my face, "are you listening to me?"
"I'm sorry, what'd you say?"
"I was asking you if you were going back to your dorm or are you coming with us to Starbucks. God, you look as though you've seen a ghost. Pull yourself together girl. The last two months couldn't have been that bad," Raven had that look on her face. The one that said she needed an explanation as to what was happening to her.
"Raven, I would tell you everything…later. I promise," I assured her.
"You better. I can't have my bestie blanking out on me all the time," she said.
As we walked through the doors onto the sidewalk, Raven hugged me; "I'd see you later for Art History."
We went our seperate directions. Raven, Monty and Jasper towards the campus gates, and me towards my dorm. But on the way over to my dorm, I kept telling myself that he's not here, that he's just an illusion. That he was just here to haunt me. Everything was still so clear in my mind, that one night, of the many nights we had together, and then the morning after he just left – like a thief in the night. I never got a chance to say good-bye to either one of them. There was no letter, no kind of explanation as to what happened. I never even got an address or a phone number or an email address. So I left as well, with my heartbroken by a guy whom I had known for no less than a month or two. A guy who left you like that after such a short time isn't supposed to break your heart like that. But what actually made it hurt was that, the time I spent with him was permanently engraved in my mind. The fact that he helped me take my mind of whatever was going on back at home would always be something that I'll remember. When I reached to my dorm room, I met my dorm mate passed out in nothing but her underwear – at least she had a great night last night. I changed into some comfortable pants and lied down on my bed with my microbiology textbook, with hope of getting some work done and taking my mind of Bellamy Blake.