Before
4 Days
8:00 AM
Park
I pull up to the driveway with my friend Alisha in a van.
"Thank god! We're finally here! 3 hours of driving!"
"Says the one who didn't drive…" I say teasfully. She playfully punches me in the elbow. We both go to the back seat and the trunk and begin unpacking our suitcases filled with clothes and other necessities (electronics). When we are done, I slam the trunk down until it hits the point where this is a little click. The school was big, I can tell you that. Even as a college, it was pretty big. Across the street, there was the baseball field which some people were already casually playing on. There were a few trees planted up between the line of the lot of the campus and the parking lot. Our suitcases meet the pavement with a low clunk and we go off to the administration desk.
I talk to the girl at the gray table just outside the campus' admin's office. She has brown hair, glasses, and a t-shirt. Alisha talks to her first.
"Alisha Gem Johnson," she says looking at the papers with the names covering it with certain names highlighted in yellow and pink.
"Ah, yes, here you go, this shows your schedule, study hall, campus activities, roommate, and room number," the girl says with a smile.
"Thanks you, um," Alisha peers at the name tag,"Cathy."
I walk up next once she goes off and sets her things down by a tree, waiting for me. I walk up to Cathy and say ,"Hi, um," I stutter," I'm Park Sheridan"
She flips through several pages with her eyes gazing and skimming over the papers looking for my name. She finally finds it and gives me a file. She then repeats everything she says to Alisha a few moments ago.
"Yes, thank you," I reply back generously with a small smile. I then tuck the file under my arms and stroll off with it to the tree which was beside my friend.
"So, what classes did you get?" I ask her.
"Um lets see," she says as she un-tucks the file from under her arm, grabs the paper and begins reading out the classes.
"Huh it looks like we have drama together on thursdays and tuesdays."
"Uh - huh," she says with a nod, "So anyways, I'm gonna go unpack and we can meet back here tonight at 7."
"Yah sure, okay," I say with a little nod. iI turn back and take my suitcases. I look at the paper the girl gave to me and read the number. Room 872. I walk around and after a few helpless and confusing minutes, I go up and ask a man who was sitting on a bench with the girl I see earlier. Wait no, this girl has shorter hair. Oh well, I just shrug it off. I go up and ask them where Room 872 is. He points to the left and tells me the directions to get there. After he is finished, I gather my stuff again and stroll off towards my room. After a good 10 minute walk, I reach my dorm which is in a one story building but decorated nicely by murals plastered among the walls. I open the door with my keys and walk in to a guy putting up a poster.
"Oh hey! You must be my new roommate, um…" he tries to think.
"Park." I finish for him.
"Nice to meet you Park."
"Same for you." I say with a half-smile.
I unpack my bags and begin putting up my room. When I'm finished I look around at it making sure I wasn't missing anything. Okay, Posters, pictures, laptop, headphones, comics, movies. Yup, all here.
As I am about to leave, my phone rings, I take it out and flip it up. "Hello?"
"Yah, are you there honey?" My mom said, probably having a concerned/oerky face behind this other end of the line.
"Yah, Alisha and I just got here a few moments ago" I reply. I begin filling in the details, which wasn't that much to be honest, and then I hang up.
As I walk out of the dorm a girl suddenly approaches me and says in a seductive voice "Hey, you're cute, wanna...:" she draws little circles against the hem(?) of my shirt and pushes me against the door, "hang out in my room…?"
Unsure what to do at this awkward moment, I do the only thing I can think of and I silently hold my breath and faint till I see nothing but darkness. I can feel myself floating beyond the galaxy of souls. Drifting, drifting away.