Falling in love? || Karlnap

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-Nick POV-

I got in my car, all my bags in the back seat and trunk. I waved goodbye to my parents out the window and drove down our long driveway. Today I was moving into my dorm for college, it was my first year and I was excited to go, all my soccer friends basically went to the same college as me. I had been playing soccer since I was three and still loved it, I was hoping to get on a good team and maybe go to a national soccer team. 

It was a 5 hour drive to the college from my house, by the time I had made it there I was very tired, I got out of my car after pulling up to the administration building. (a/n k so im not in college and idk what its called but like the building where you like get the keys to your dorm and shit.)

I got the keys to my dorm and drove up to the building, the outside looked like a huge house, big white pillars holding up the gable roof and thick steps up toward the white door. I got out of my car again and opened the front door one of the keys on the chain, it opened and I was met with a grand staircase and two open walls that led into a massive kitchen and a living room. I walked up the stairs, looking around. 

I had not expected it to be this nice, like, at all. The doors had the names of people on them with magazine letters and shapes, I looked around the hallway, none of the doors on this floor had my name on it so I walked around the second floor, trying to find the next set of stairs. 

You could look over the small balcony fence and down to the bottom floor, more people were coming in the door now, holding suitcases and bags full of everything. 

I walked up the next set of stairs, on the top floor were 7 doors, they all had colorful magazine paper names on them like the lower ones but these ones were more spaced apart. I walked up to the door that had a piece of paper that read 'Nick' on it in a colorful orange.

I got the other key out of my pocket and opened the door, it was quiet and empty so I was guessing my roommate hadn't got here yet. 

Inside the door there was a small coat room, a shoe rack, and a bench. I walked through the open wall and on the right was a tiny kitchen. It had 6 cabinets and a fridge. There was a counter that had stools on the other side of it, on that same side there was a small room that had two beds pressed against either sides of the wall. on the side of both beds was a nightside table. 

Near the door was a small bathroom, it had a small toilet and shower, there was a little sink that had a tiny mirror hung on the wall. 

I sighed, putting my backpack down on the bed that wasn't nearest to the kitchen. This is small. I thought to myself, of course it was, it was a dorm after all. Hopefully my roommate wasn't weird. 

I decided to go on a run, I put in some headphones and put on shorts and a gray shirt. I started to play music and jogged down all the stairs, I walked out of the house and looked around outside the street was slow, only about two cars going by in five minutes. Our house was surrounded by other houses, they all looked different, some modern, some old fashion. 

I started running around the block, making my way toward the campus. There were trees that lined a very long path, and at the end of the path were some stairs that led up to a building. I was three days early to the start of school so I had some time to settle in. 

I ran for almost an hour until the sun started setting. I had taken off my shirt while I was running and I kept it off as I came into the house, there were people sitting at the dining room table and and the living room, looking at their phones. 

I climbed up all the stairs and opened the door to my dorm, I was just about to lay down when I noticed something small in the corner of my eye, I turned so that I was facing it and jumped. There was someone sitting at the counter on a stool, they had their phone out but were studying me, their nails were painted a jet black and their hair was a caramel color. 

"Hi." I said awkwardly waving at them. 

"Hey." He said back to me, still studying my face, after a second he went back to scrolling through his phone, the light from his phone bounced off his face, making it able to see a scatter of freckles across his cheeks and nose. He looked up, eyes widened. "OH! Sorry, I'm Karl." He said smiling. 

I laughed a little, "It's fine, I'm Nick." I said with a small grin. 

(a/n let's pretend theres not a bathroom in their dorm room and theres like a shared bathroom for everyone in the house. sorry!)

He went back to slumped over his phone and I grabbed a towel from my bag, walking out the door to go shower in the shared bathroom. 

I showered quickly and got changed in the large bathroom, it had about 15 stalls with toilets and 20 showers with a short curtain covering it. I walked out of the bathroom and to my dorm, when I walked in I looked at the small clock hanging over the opened up wall, it was almost 7:30. 

I felt my phone buzz in my back pocket so I pulled it out, it had 5 messages from my friends talking about getting dinner. I replied that I was down for anything and walked to my bed. I looked around the room and noticed Karl wasn't here, he was probably at dinner. 

My friends told me to meet them at some pizza restaurant so I grabbed a jacket and walked outside, it was warm out since summer was just ending so I left my jacket zipper open. 

When I got to the restaurant I saw my friends sitting outside, I had 4 friends, Clay, George, Darryl, and Luke. We all had been doing soccer together since middle school and we've been going to the same school since. I walked up behind them, "hey guys." I said, making them all look back toward me. 

There was a variety of Nick's and pats on the back, we all sat down again and ordered pizza, afterward we walked to the neighborhood of houses that held all the students and split off into our own ones. I knew Clay and George were in the same house but I didn't know about Luke and Darryl. 

When I got back to my dorm Karl was in there asleep on his bed, it looked like he had decorated his side. There were fake vines that lined the walls and small paper flowers hanging by strings that were on the ceiling, gently swaying when I walked in the room. 

My room was still it's plain beige color and I decided I would decorate tomorrow. 

I put on some shorts and a shirt and slowly made my way over to my bed, my legs sore from running for so long and the long drive. 

I quickly slipped out of consciousness and fell into a deep sleep, my breathing steady. 

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