Racing Andrius

Eve: An Abnormally Normal Morning

I stared at my paper mindlessly writing the notes the teacher wrote on the board. Review days before the finals were always boring. I looked around and unsurprisingly found plenty of other kids drifting off to sleep or already snoozing peacefully. I sighed as my brain slowly drifted away, back to this morning.

Morgan was the one who woke me up rather harshly by screaming in my ear.

"Wake up sleepy head! Do you know what day it is?!"

"Do you know what time it is?" I groaned

"Sorry, I know your class starts two hours later, but I wanted you to see the finished product before I turn it in."

I blinked a few times to get the sleep out of my eyes then stared at the dress. The otherwise black dress looked like a mixture of blue and purple with scattered glitter that made it seem like it was cut from the evening sky. "Wow, it looks amazing! I love it, you should definitely wear it to Prom."

"Aww thanks! I will shove it in Miranda's face. Ha your little coffee stain didn't stop me. I am the next top fashion designer, and no one can stop me," she laughed

"You show her girl," I said clapping and cheering

"Thanks, well I gotta go otherwise I will be late. See ya later!" she said after zipping up her black garment bag.

"Bye! Good luck!" I said and looked around in the quiet room. Might as well get up. I thought and freshened myself and changed.

I walked around the campus feeling the cool morning air brush against my cheek. The mornings were always nice here, but ever since I transferred to law, the workload had been hectic.

SMASH!

I jumped in my seat and looked around wildly before remembering where I was. Our professor stood at her desk with a singular book laying on her desk.

"Now, this is important. Classes are shifting around due to some of the professors being transferred to another school for the remaining school year. Hence some of the classes will be merging with others. Any questions?"

"Do you know which classes will be merging?" said a girl from the back

"You will receive an email regarding where you will need to go...No more questions? Very well, you are to complete an essay based on the following prompts." The professor announced as she pointed three bullet points on another chalkboard.

After a few minutes, the bell rang. We said our usual thank you and headed out the door to where we needed to go. I didn't receive an email on where to go so I headed directly to my political science classroom. It was not a long walk since the Sherman Business building was diagonally across from the Rowan Law building. I walked up the hallways realizing that there were a lot more students than usual and sighed. It seemed that business classes were where the students without professors were all shoved into. I got into my classroom and pulled out my notebook and read some of the previous pages on what we learned in the past few days.

"Eva?" a voice said, and I looked up. It was Peter.

"Hi Peter, wanna sit next to me?" I said gesturing to the seat next to mine, "What are you doing here? I didn't know you took business law,"

"Oh, I don't. I am a business major just got merged in here since our professor got transferred. Besides it is required for all business students to take one law class."

"I see, you alright?" I asked seeing he looked kind of depressed

"It has not been the best day so far."

"Why not?"

"My mother is visiting campus today,"

"That is a bad thing?"

"It's complicated, you wouldn't understand."

"So...what kind of engineer do you want to be?" I said deciding to change the subject

"Could you do me a favor?"

"Huh? Yeah, sure what is it?"

"If you are ever near my while outside and I am with my mom, could you call me...Charlie?"

"Um sure..." I said not wanting to ask too many private questions, "What does your mom look like?"

"You'll know it when you see her...let's just say she stands out...a lot..."

"Like every other eccentric mother?" I joked and Peter smiled

"Yes," Peter said then after an awkward silence spanned our conversation, "why didn't you ask why I wanted you to call me Charlie?"

"You have your reasons," I said simply,

"Thanks for understanding. Sorry for the inconvenience. Would you like something for the favor?"

"Nah, it's alright. It is not that complicated and besides there is a low chance I will meet her so no biggie."

"Thanks, you're a good person," he said

"You are too," I said not quite sure what to say

"No, a person like me is far from good..." he sighed and laid his head against the desk.