If The Past Could Heal...

Chapter 1 - Welcome to Swansdale!

Noelia's POV:

*BEEP* *BEEP* *BEEP*

"Mierda" I mumble, repeatedly smacking my arm on the bedside table beside me.

Today was my first day at Swansdale Academy! Nerve-wracking to say the least, especially after what I endured in my final high school years. This is my chance to have a do-over and I am going to try my very hardest not to stuff it up. Rubbing my eyes I take in my new surroundings of this elegant dorm room. Boxes decorate my whole room because after my parents left, I honestly couldn't be bothered to set it up. I hop out of bed and run to the room next door. I storm into the room and climb onto the unsuspecting persons bed.

"CAMMILEE" I scream in her ears.

"MERDE" she jolts awake, her golden curls flying everywhere as I explode into giggles.

"Get up sleepy head, it's nearly 7 we are going to be late!" I tell her, still chuckling as I stalk out of her room.

"I'm up, I'm up" Camille grumbles rubbing her eyes and going into her bathroom.

After finishing getting ready, I go check on Cami to tell her to hurry up and we look at each others outfits and laugh.

"TWINS" we shout in unison and explode into another fit of giggles. I love how Camille always makes me laugh.

We are both wearing a white headband with our hair out and both have our Swandale logoed jumpers on. I am wearing dark blue flared jeans with white trainers and a white turtleneck that peeks through my jumper. Camille is wearing flared black leggings and brown UGG boots.

"Let's go" I urge, and she grabs her bag and we head out of our dorm.

It takes us an hour to get ready, just like I thought it would, so luckily we are at the main building at 8:00 right on time to the introduction tour for all the first year college students.

Describing Swansdale as pretty is an insult. As the tour goes on the staff member leading us is describing the facilities that we have access to.

The main building called Sycamore is almost like a countryside mansion and is where most of the normal lectures takes place. Three other matching buildings decorate its sides. Cretatia is the building that has the heath centre, counselling, career advice, peer support and main staff offices. Terraria is the building with all our dorms and on each floor there are common rooms where most clubs like to meet. Kiora is the biggest building that is home to all our sporting facilities; a ballet studio, a basketball court, a volleyball court, an ice rink, a huge pool and some tennis courts.

Me and Cami grin at eachother when she mentions the Kiora building, sport is on of the main reasons we came here!

Surrounding these buildings there are huge rolling fields on the outside are where people play football, lacrosse and rugby.

"Isn't he cute" Camille whisper-shouts and nudges me, startling me and causing me to turn my head.

Camille is staring at a tall boy with very light brown hair that is bouncing up and down as he shakes from laughter. Bracelets decorate his wrists and he is wearing a navy t-shirt that clings to his stomach. He is laughing at another boy who seems to have dropped all his books on the ground and is trying to pick them up. This other boy is gorgeous, he has messy dark brown hair and is wearing a black long sleeve compression top that shows off his abs. The boy who was laughing noticed us staring and winks at Cami. She blushes and turns away. The other boy looks up and his dark brown eyes hold my stare.

The teacher who is leading our tour notices the commotion and goes over to tell them off and they go scurrying away. The boys dark brown eyes hold my stare as long as they can until he turns and follows his friend.

The teacher, Mrs Clancy I think her name is, continues the tour, but all I can think about is that boy, he's obviously not a first year because he's not doing a tour, but he doesn't seem that much older than me.

Mrs Clancy leads us to the hall where our first lecture takes place and I take in the surroundings. Huge wooden door greet us and inside there are many chairs that are wooden but have a dark blue cushion embedded in them. There are long desks with lots of room and the shape of the hall is sloping downward, like an auditorium. The bottom has a teacher desk and has white boards, chalkboards and smart boards. I am so excited to get started that I rush to my seat and open my notebook and grab my pencil case and water bottle ready to start. Camille takes a seat beside me and gets ready as the lecture teacher walks in. We share a grin and then fully pay attention to what's going on for the next hour.

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Authors notes:

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