"Collapse into me, just once
And I promise you'll never have to fall again." - Rowan Ashley
Rowan Ashley doesn't believe in love, never has. He watched his parents and brother's marriage collapse right in front of his eyes. So when he meets his 's...
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This is it. It's been two weeks and here I am, nervous as fuck. I took a deep breath staring at the large buildings in front of me. I turned to aunt Anna and noticed she was already looking at me with a small smile. "You ready?" She whispered. " Nope, not at all but I'm pretty sure I do not have a choice," I told her truthfully. She laughed a bit and nodded her head towards the admins' office. I've gotten to know her over the past 2 weeks she is nice, a bit. I also learnt that she and Josh had two kids in the last five years who are both girls. The school year order is the same as it was in South Africa and UK which was such a relief.
Since 2 weeks ago we were heading into the new year the schools open a week or two after that. Meaning that we are learning from January to March and then we are taking a month off and opening in May for the second term which is in winter. Then closing in August for a month and opening in October for the third term and closing in December for the holidays and that is the entire year. Simple. I'm guessing when I was explaining this is the time I zoned out cause I snapped back into reality when my aunt started to snap her fingers in front of my face. " Jewel" I immediately snapped my head towards her direction. " Huh? I'm sorry I spaced out for a short while." I explained. "It's okay dear, I was just asking if you need someone to assist you in finding your dorm room and give you a brief tour around the premises." The dean gave me a small smile. "Yes, I would like that please." She picked up the landline and requested for a person to meet us in here. A few minutes a cute chubby girl walked in and introduced herself to us. "Hi, 'm Abigail Matthews and I'll be giving you the tour today." She gave me a bright smile. I like her already.
The dean dimised us and we began walking to the huge place, there were a student who were too carrying their suitecases but most of them had some dude behind them carrying it for them.
"What's your name?" I snapped out of my trance when I herad Gail's voice. "I'm sorry?" I said clearly confused. " Oh I noticed you never told me you name and I was wondering what it is." She quickly explained, I saw her smile flater a bit. Nope, this is not happening on my watch. " Oh exuse my manners, I'm Jewel, Jewel Harper." I extended my hand for her to shake it. She looked at it before she threw her arms around me. " I'm sorry, I'm a hugger." She smiled. "No problem, I liked that. " I chuckled a bit. We arrived to my new dorm room. Wait room should not even be sed for this, is this a damn house. "Woah."I said breathlessly. She laughed at me before we walked further into the beautiful fully funitured house. "You said that like you haven't seen anything like this." She shook her head again. I turned to her with a smile "That is beacuse I haven't." Her eyes went wide. "Wait really?" I nodded. " What rank are you?" She raised or at least tried to raise her eyebrow. " I'm a nobel." I said. " Really, when I saw you with miss Anna i thought she was your mother." She explained while we walked to the onlt room avaliable, which I'm guessing is mine now. "Well biologically she is, but I'd think to think of her as my surroget or my aunt when I want to be nice. She got pregant with me when she was 16 and gave me to her twin sister and immediaely ran away with her boyfriend. Who unfortunately happens mtobe my dad." I explained, she looked shocked to say the least but to me was the funniest thing. " Wow, that's a dick move." She laughed and I nodded while I chuckled myself. I quickly realised that I must be holding her back from going to her friends and hanging out with them. "I'm sorry if I'm disturbing you from hanging out with your friends." I apologised sadly. " Bold of you to assume I have freinds." She laughed, it wasn't a sad laugh more of she's accepted it and doesn't care anymore. " You don't?" I asked. She shook her head and focused on the strings of her hoodie. " That is not right. I mean who and why would not want to be friends with you?" I jumped on the bed to sit next to her. " It's simple really, Its cause im fat and also cause of my albanism." She shook her head lookimg down. I noticed tears threating to come out. "Gail, you are not fat, I quite like your chubbiness, its cute. And your albanism should not be the reason people don't wanna be friends you. And I really really want to be your friend. Would you want to be my friend too?" I asked. " I would like that. Omg you're gonna be my first friend. We're gonna have so many sleep overs. Wait what do people do at sleep overs?" She asked. "I don't know, I've never really friends before-" My sentence was interprupted by the front door opening and the sound of chatter.
Gail and I got out of my room and walked into the living room. A girl and boy were sitting on the couches having what looked like an arguement but immediately stopped when they heard us enter the room. " Hi you must be our new roomate. I'm Nigel and this is your other roomate Priya. Oh and hi Abigail." He waved his hand towards us. Gail squeeked out a small hi in response. " Hi, I'm Jewel Harper it is a pleasure to meet you." I introduced myself. "It's a pleasure to meet you too Jewel and welcome back Abigail." Priya said. " We were just discussing what to have for dinner, do you wanna join us?" Nigel asked. Gail and I nodded our heads and went to sit with them on the couch. " So Jewel, where are from?" Priya asked while giving me a questioning look as I sat n the floor instead of the couches. " Its out of habit, plus its more comfortable." I quicly exlplained why Isat on the floor but still did not look convinced. " Well, my origin depends who you are asking really. I was born in the UK but moved to South Africa when I was 2 and moved back to UK three years ago. Oh and statusly I'm a nobel." I explained. " Wait I don't understand how you're a nobel if you're here." Priya said. I was about to explain when Gail interrupted, " Wait, can you please explain over some food. I'm starving over here." She cried, sitting herslef next to me but her head was rested on my thighs. " I hope you're okay with this." She whispered. " I'm perfectly happy with it." I grinned while playing with her afro. Nigel returned to us and told us he ordered some fancy foods I was not even going to try and repeat the names of. "Okay, now tell us the story." Nigel and Priya grinned. I explained the story to them and Priya threatend to chop off Josh's dick and feed it to Anna, while Nigel tried to calm her down after he laughed his arse off.
"Where are you from Nigel?" I asked cause I noticed some accent. " I'm from Nigeria. Prince of the Yoruba tribe but my family and I moved to Mauritious when I turned one year." He said. I turned to Priya and asked the same question too. "I'm from India and I've lived there since I was born. I only moved here when I was in the 6th grade. My family is still there." She explained.
After hours of getting to know each other Gail had to go to her room, that she doesn't share with anyone. Nigel and Priya both fot tired and fell asleep on the couch. And I went to my room and video chatted my patents and Bean cause I miss the little guy. I know Ive only known these people for a few hours but I know for a fact we are going to be great friends.
