Scowling birds , huge dust hurricanes, thousands of men running towards me with weapons in the hands , a couple helicopters floating in the sky ..shooting at us and one briefcase in my hand . All of this started with one single phone call 10 days ago !!
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That was the most cliché starting ever right !?? .. No this is not that huge scale of a story .. none of the above mentioned things is gonna happen to me .. Ever !!
By the way Hi I'm Leo , feels like a dog name right !? .. I don't know what motivated my parents to name me this , I'm not even a Leo , I'm a Sagittarius .
I hate this name .. "Leo" .. I've heard far too many dog jokes and Titanic jokes (coz Leonardo DiCaprio is in the Titanic Movie or something I don't know .. teens are crazy .. you can't provide a logical explanation to everything) ..
But today .. I'm gonna change this .. everything !! I'm no longer going by Leo .. I mean I'm still Leo and will be "legally" .. but in my daily life .. I'm going to introduce myself with a better name.
A more normal and less common name. I haven't thought of a name yet .. but I know it's not going to be a small 3 letter name like ken , joe , lou .. No I want it to be huge . Okay , not huge but the average size. I don't know ... What about jack ... noooooo that would increase the Titanic jokes . By the way if you are thinking how I'm going to deal with the people who already know my name ... Well sir for that I apologize .. I didn't disclose all of the information .. even though this not being a cliché story .. but today is my first day at the college , I moved here recently for college .. obviously . Doesn't it feel like you've read a similar story a million times which starts with a teen who is going to attend the first day at college and knows no one there .. I knowww but that's a popular beginning set up for a reason .. because it makes for a super interesting story .
See I'm being completely honest right now .. I don't know what is going to happen .. I don't know the genre of this story , or what characters it has , if I'm going to get a girl or no .. I don't know !! And I don't even promise this is going to be interesting .. I just want some company when I explore this new life .. my new life . So if you have nothing better to do than to follow a teen to his college .. come along !!
I'm still thinking what should I name myself .. really stressful .. totally understood what my parents went through .. Maybe I don't blame anymore for keeping my name Leo ... No I do still blame them .. because they knew what they were doing .. literally our dog who had just died 3 days ago when I was born .. his name was also Leo !! So I don't know if that has to do anything with me being stuck with this weird name.. I hope not !! Okay anyways I can't think of a name yet .. maybe let's just figure it out on our way to the college .. I'm all ready with my clothes and my weird hairdo. C'mon let's leave xx
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Okay so just a bit of background setup while we're driving to the college , I'm now moved to Alynthia 2 months ago , just to get used to this city and my apartment before the college starts ..
It's a pretty large city , I haven't seen the entire city myself , but maybe that is because I've not been an outdoorsy kind of guy , I like to stay in my comfort zone , So I never opted for a city tour , though I've heard it has some great places to visit .. maybe someday I will take a city tour . There are only 3 major locations I go outside my apartment , One My College of which today is the opening day , Two a café nearby .. I only go to this café because the owner is my landlord and unlike stereotypical landlords mine is sweet and is hella impressed by me .. and I seriously don't know why , but because of my relations with the owner the waiters are friendly to me and they let me have as much fun as I can for as long as I can .. and Three The Local Port.. 3 times a week for one hour each time .
Okay so the road to college is a 20 minutes drive , I blast sick songs for 20 whole minutes annoying everybody in the way .. by the way if you haven't figured out yet , I drive my car to the college , No I don't have a license yet but no one in the city seems to care about it ... so you don't care about it either .. okay ?
Okay we've reached college and shit we forgot about the name. I got so tangled up in telling you my story that I forgot about naming myself . Ooh that feels weird when you say it out loud.
Okay I've found a way .. to generate a random name .. any guesses !? GOOGLE ..
So I googled " random name generator " and it took me to a site and after a hot minute of poking my screen , the name Google generated was "VINCENT POOLE " .. what!?
I feel to have name like a dog than to have a name like a Napoleon's Right hand or something ..
Okay let's generate another one LAURENCE CADWELL what the hell .. okay another one RALPH POPE .. I'm not lying this is what's really coming up , TRISTAN FLOWERS and i had specified male as gender .. *Sigh*
Okay you know what .. I'm going to stick to Leo .. Leo Starsworth .. yes that's my full name .. shut your laughing mouths .. i see you mocking me .. I literally need to start a hastag .. #StopNameShaming .. lol
Anyway let's enter the college , I throw my phone in the small pocket in my backpack which I feels was designed for a phone because it's so small you can't even fit a pencil in it .. I mean not a long normal size one .. if you are using it for years and it is short enough .. maybe it might!
Okay , I turn down the music , step out of my car is obviously after parking it properly .. obviously!
No I had not .. it was in the way of a teacher's bike and I had to re-move it and re-park it in the student's parking .
My alloted classroom is class 2-B , it means nothing don't read into it too much , it's randomly alloted , or so I think .
The classroom is on the second floor and at the end of the corridor , I know that because there's a map being provided of this school to every kid . What's this like Disneyland !? .. It's one building 3 floors tall , a couple playgrounds and 2 parking lots ( one for students n one for the teachers .. wish I had knew that earlier ) .
So I navigate to my class with almost zero eye contact or conversation with anyone .. all thanks to my hoodie .. it transforms the good old me into an anti-social mysterious hoodie boy .. lol
