Safe Place

04

ZARA

"YES. They were literally fucking in a gas station." I yell through the phone.

"No way. Oh my fucking god, Did you get your food at-least." Mae says.

"I ran out the bathroom and got my food right away." That's shocking how I even had an appetite after that. But if I didn't eat after that long plane ride, I would probably pass out from my low iron.

"Of course you did."

"Okay, I'm about to enter the school. Pray for me babes." I say tracing the steps to the entrance of Elwood Prep.

"Good luck, praying for you 1,798 miles away." I hear her send me a small giggle.

I hang up and put my phone back into my pocket.
I'm still wearing the same outfit from the airplane. It's fine I'll just change when I get the keys to my dorm.
I slow my steps when I finally get to the entrance with my heavy ass suitcase.

I take a deep breath before I push the doors open. I look up at the looming halls and walk into the building, expecting stares and whispers, including lots of judgy comments. But everyone was involved in their own conversations, no one even sparing me the slightest glance. Well, the older kids here probably think of today as a regular day while I'm nervous as hell.

I look around to see a blonde girl with her friends.
She looks nice enough to ask a question to.

"Uhm, Hey. By any chance do you know where the headmasters office is?" I ask with a sweet tone.

"Go all the way down that hall." She points straight ahead.

"Then go to the second door on your left and there should be a line where you give in the documents that you should've received when you applied."

"Thank you so much, I'll hope to see you around." I walk away while she gives me a sincere smile.

I take a stop near the headmasters office so I can go through my suitcase to check where those documents are. My mom probably stuffed them somewhere in here.
I pull out a thick packet of paper from the depths of' my suitcase.
This should be it. I zip my suitcase up and walk to the entrance of the office.

Why the fuck is this line so short?
Shit. Am I late?
I open up my phone to see it's 8:26.
Fuck. I was supposed to be here at 8.
I'm already making a bad impression.

"Excuse me." The headmaster says.

"You're next up." He gives me a look like he's done with my shit.

I look at him with widened eyes.

"So sorry about that." I say while walking up to his desk.

"You should have a packet of documents that were filled out when you applied on our school website."

I take the crumbled packet and lay it out on his desk.

"Here you go. Also sorry for my lateness."

"Mhm" He says hazily.

Well he's definitely done with me.
He flips through the paperwork then opens up a drawer in his desk.
"Alright here are your keys. Your dorm number is 202. Your roommate should already be there. Also classes start tomorrow morning, So please be prepared."

"Thank you so much."
I head out the office in a rush.
I completely forgot about roommates.. Shit.
Let's hope she's really fucking sweet

I look to my left to see a sign that says 'DORMS' With an arrow pointing to stairs ahead of me.

I drag my suitcase across the steps.
I look at my keys.
202. Okay so I have to go to the second floor.
This isn't that bad. I kinda have the hang of this.
I reach the top of the second floor before walking to dorm 202.