Heavy is the Head

Aurora - 2

Chapter 8

Naveen dropped Aurora off first, but she still managed to be half an hour late for her first class. The reason? Because her cover was blown straight away, and she had to come clean about her identity.

It all started with Aurora being assigned to her roommate in the Air dormitories, a bubbly girl with dark red hair called Ariel. She had seemed nice enough, and Aurora had a nice conversation with her before heading off to have a quick conversation with the resident hall director, a friend of Aunt Mavis called Tinkerbell. When she came back to her room, there was another girl in their room deep in conversation with Ariel.

"I'm sure that she's that new singer." Jasmine pressed, furrowing her eyebrows down into her concentration face as she scrolled through the image results on her phone for 'Briar Rose'.

"How could you possibly tell?!" Ariel replied, looking extremely uninterested.

"I'm telling you..." Jasmine was cut off by Aurora entering the room, so she rushed up to her with a massive smile on her face, "You're Briar Rose, aren't you?"

So, for the next half an hour, she was bombarded with questions about everything from how her music career started to her relationship with The Princes. It turned out that Jasmine was a big fan of her music while Ariel had never heard of her but was obsessed with The Princes.

"You've never had a crush on any of them?" Ariel asked, raising an eyebrow disbelievingly.

"We're just friends, Ariel. It's like Naveen is the dad of the group, Eric is the mum, Beast/Adam is the annoying older brother and Philip..." Aurora wrinkled her nose, like she had just caught a waft of a terrible smell, "Anyway, I can't imagine dating any of them and I'm sure they'd say the same about me."

"You should have seen the chaos that you caused on Twitter with that interview earlier," Jasmine laughed holding up her phone, "R.I.P. Brilip has been trending since then!"

Aurora rolled her eyes, "I don't understand why people even ship me with him! Eric and I are much closer, but there's been no shipping!"

"It's the banter, I suppose. People love a good enemies to lovers romance." Ariel shrugged.

And those were the words that plagued Aurora for the rest of the day like a bad itch. There was one moment where she laughed out loud at the thought of Philip ever crushing on her, even slightly, and the teacher told her off in front of everyone.

"Miss Borealis, if it's all the same to you, I would like to continue my lesson without any further interruptions. Some of us didn't go gallivanting off for a whole year, and it's not fair to then come back and be late and then be disruptive. Some of these students actually care about their education!"

So then the embarrassment of that ensured Aurora couldn't pay attention for the rest of the lesson and when the task was set, she had no clue what to do which meant she spent most of the afternoon with her head on her desk in despair, while Ariel and Jasmine chatted in the background. When it became evident that she wasn't going to get any work done, she picked up her phone and called Noah like she had promised to do before she left.

"Hey."

"Haha, are you struggling with the work already?!" Noah cackled.

"It's really not funny. I have no idea what I'm supposed to be doing."

"You were laughing at me when I couldn't do that Geography project. Skipping a whole year of school isn't so fun now is it?"

"This is supposed to be the basics and I'm supposed to be smart! What is happening to me?!"