Rivals

01

Ryen Pov

"Ryen come on, we are leaving!" Tracy said. Tracy is my stepmom, She's actually kinda cool despite her being super on time with everything. Today was orientation for Brookstone college, I'm so happy to finally be going to college. I finish tying my shoelaces and close my door. "Shit my phone" I go back into my room looking everywhere for my phone. I look in my bed and the bathroom but it's not there.

"Riven! Where's my phone!" I yell to my twin brother. "It's in the kitchen," he says. I mutter a small thanks and run to the car. Me and my brother don't always get along but he's my twin and I love him to death.  We hop in the car and head to the college, It's an hour away so I put my headphones in and listen to music until we get there.

"Ry" Riven says shaking my shoulder. "Ryen wake up we are already late." I jut awake, I must have fallen asleep while in the car. I quickly hop out and say bye to Tracy. I walk in the door with my brother and I see my best friend (Aka Taylie) I've been friends with Taylie ever since we were in preschool. "Tay!!" I hug her so tight I think I heard her back pop. "Ouch" "Sorry, I just missed you so much," I say.  "Hey, Taylie" Riven says flirty, Riven has had a crush on Taylie since I can remember. They even got married in Kindergarten.

"Come on guys let's go," I say taking their hands and dragging them to the office. Riven rolls his eyes and Taylie excitedly jogs with me. "I can't believe we all got into the same college," I say thrilled. "Well I only got in with the hockey scholarship," says Riven. We open the office door and tell the lady at the front desk that we are here for orientation.

We've been looking around the school for the past 2 hours and so far it seems really cool. After we left the office we got our schedules and our dorm room numbers. "Ry we have to get the same dorm" "I know," I said to Taylie. We looked at our papers and it had 304A and 306A on them. "What did you get Riv?" I asked my brother "Oh I got 322B for the boy's dorm." he said.

We go to look at our dorms and tell Riven to meet us in the commons at 12 for lunch. We walk up 3 flights of stairs sweating like we just ran a marathon. A girl passed us and said "You know there is an elevator on the other side of the building" "Oh thanks we are new this year so we didn't know." I say Taylie asks "Hey do you know where 304 and 306 are by any chance?" I look at the girl and she points to the left. I softly yell thanks and yank Taylies arm and go left.

Next thing I know I bump into something hard I shut my eyes really hard and brace for impact until it never happens. I feel hands around my waist catching me "You should really watch where your going next time." I hear. I crack open my eyes to see the hottest, I mean the hottest man alive "oh I'm sorry" I stutter out to him still holding on to me. He un-slithers his hands from my waist, winks, and walks away.

Taylie shrieks out "OH MY GOD, who was that," I say I don't know while missing the warmth of his hands around me. I wonder why he was in the girl's dorm.. He looked about 6'3 he was very tall compared to me; I am 5'4. He was wearing black Cargo jeans with a baggie t-shirt and his hair was a messy chocolate brown and I want to touch it so badly- I shake the thought away stop you just met him and you don't even know his name I say to myself. I quickly turn around to see if he is still there but he's gone, it's like he dissolved into thin air. After Taylie and I look at our dorms I text Riven to see if he is done and wants to grab lunch.

We met Riven and walk to lunch at the nearest restaurant. Taylie has been trying to find the guy that I ran into online since it happened. "Taylie what are you doing" Riven says and takes her phone, She runs up to him and says "Important business now give it back Matthews" I laugh and open the door to the restaurant. We get seated and at the bar, I see a familiar face, I go to tell Taylie but I see Riven glaring at him "What is he doing here" he says angrily "You know him?" "Yeah, he used to be on the rival hockey team in grade school." "Oh," I say. I turn back around and look at the stranger again apparently his name is Nicholas Heart. He was the best hockey player at school and he got into Brookstone with a scholarship last year.

We make eye contact as we look at each other, he must've seen me walk in I think to myself. He has the most gorgeous eyes, they are dark green like forest trees. I quickly look away because Riven starts talking about him. "He was on our school's rival team and we've played against each other since we were on the youth hockey team." "Oh, that's why he kinda looks familiar," Taylie says. We finish eating our lunch and ride home with taylie since she lives a block away from us. I get in the back seat so Riven can chat with her and I can go back to sleep. We get home and I run up to my room and start packing for the first day that's in 3 days. I put on some music, Chase Atlantic of course, and start with my clothes. I've been packing for at least 2 hours so I decided to take a break and play my electric guitar.

I was still playing when Riven banged on the door and said dinner is ready. I go downstairs and I see Tay "Hey whatcha doing here?" "You invited me to dinner earlier remember? At the restaurant." "Oh yeah, I remember now," I say laughing I must've forgotten. We finish dinner and go upstairs so she can sleep over. Taylie starts to get on my computer and looks up Nicholas' name and starts basically stalking him. "Taylie stop stalking him!" I playfully yell. "Whatttt I'm not stalking him, I'm just... yeah I'm stalking him." "OH NO" she screams "WHAT WHAT happened??" "I accidentally liked a photo from 2 years ago on his Instagram..." she quietly says "You did what!" I yell "I'm sorry I'm sorry" she apologizes "Ugh now he's going to think I was stalking him" I groan and flop on my bed. She gets into bed with me and we put on the movie Rapunzel and fall asleep.