chapter 5

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Tuvas alarm went off and she jumped up in shock.
It was six in the morning.
Definitely not her favorite time to wake up.
She got up slowly and took a Quick Look out of the window.
It looked like it'd rain today.
What a great start.
She walked still tired to her wardrobe where only a few things were hung up until now.
Tuva had absolutely no clue what she would wear today and started to look through every piece of clothing that was hung up.
Her finale decision was a dark blue flared jeans and a simple black sweater.
As shoes her doc martens and a leather jacket with a dark green scarf.
She quickly made her bed tidy and walked to the bathroom where she put on her clothes, brushed her teeth and put on some makeup.

She took a quick look on the clock and it was already 6:41.
Her train would leave at 7:19.
So she quickly made a bagel and took the coffee to go she bought  two days ago.
Put her shoes, leather jacket and scarf on, took her bag with all the things she needed for her first day and left the house.

Luckily this time she didn't forgot her headphones.
She put her headphones on and played some music while going to the train station that was around fifteen minuets away from her and it was already 7:03 so she had to walk a bit faster than normally.

She finally made it to the train station and got into the train.
When she caught her breath again she began searching for a seat.
And there was one at the window.
Perfect.
She sat down and put her stuff under her seat.
Tuva would have to stay in the train for 35 minutes until she'd reach her destination.
But that didn't bother her, she actually liked long train rides or car rides.
It would sometimes even be relaxing as she'd just look out the window and listen to music as she did right now.

But the 35 minutes went by really quick and she was already standing at the train door with her stuff ready to leave.
When the train stopped and the doors opened she stepped outside into the fresh air of Dublin.
A few other people stepped out, she could see that some of them seemed to be students too as they looked like they'd be around her age.
It was 7:58 now and she had to walk around ten minutes to the school.
So she still had some time because school would start at 8:30.
Tuva decided to pass at a supermarket to buy some cookies as she was weirdly craving them right now.

So she made her way out of the train station and started to search for a supermarket.
There was a small market 5 minutes away and she made her way inside searching for the cookie seaction.
As she found it, lemon cookies in a yellow packaging caught her eyes.
So she grabbed them and made her way to the cashier.
The cashier was a women around fifty years old Tuva would've guessed.
She had long braids tied up in a bun.
She looked like someone Tuva knew.
But she didn't know who.
Again.
She saw again someone that looked like a person she would knew.
Is this some kind of deja vu?
Suddenly the weird feeling came again.
Tuva just stood there lost in thoughts and feelings.
Especially weird feelings.
The women standing at the checkout saw of the corner of her eyes someone just standing there and look at her direction so she turned to look at her.
As she met the eyes of that girl her eyes widened.
She recognized her.
She knows her.
Indeed she knows her very well.
Or she had known her.
They both looked at each other in silence for a while now, until the cashier interrupted the silence.
"Welcome young lady, only that cookie package you got there?? Will that be all?"
She asked Tuva, who was still staring at her, with a slightly trembling voice.
Tuva was brought out of her thoughts into reality again as the women spoke up.
"Yes that'd be all"
She responded as she walked over to the checkout handing the cashier the package of cookies so that she could scan them.
"Your total is 1.95$"
"Here you go"
Tuva handed her the money and leaved the store as fast as she could.
The weird feeling in her stomach had overwhelmed her again.
But she didn't have time to think about that now.
It was already 8:19.
School would start soon, so she put the cookies in her bag and made her way to the school.

As she arrived it was 8:26.
In the classroom were already sitting a few people.
Tuva decided to sit in the third row by the window.
She put her headphones back in her bag and pulled her notebook and pencil out.
The teacher was about to start as a girl with brown wavy hair stormed into the room.
"Sorry I'm late"
She said out of breath.
The teacher looked disappointed at her but finally said.
"Make sure this doesn't happen again, Miss Collins"
He said with a serious look.
"Now sit down"
He said pointing at the seat next to Tuva.
The girl just nodded and made her way towards Tuva.
They all stood up for the greeting and sat down again.
Tuva was trying to listen what the teacher said as the girl sitting next to her suddenly turned her and whispered to Tuva.
"Hey my name is Carly, what's your name?"
Tuva was asked by the girl now known as Carly.
She seemed to be kind, she was smiling, her eyes were too.
Something said Tuva that this was a beginning of a good friendship.
"I'm Tuva, nice to meet you"
She smiled back at Carly.
"Miss Collins and Miss Doyle pay attention!"
The teacher said.
They both let out a small giggle as they returned to work again.

Later in the lunch break they started chatting and found out they had many things in common.
Carly actually lived in Sweden for one year.
An exchange year.
So they both could understand each other.
They also had similar taste in music.
This was very important to Tuva and she was happy that they shared this interest.
"So what are you planning on doing this weekend?"
Carly asked Tuva with enthusiasm.
"Well I don't know I might start decorating my apartment. But that's all I've planned for the weekend."
Tuva answered with a small smile.
She secretly hoped Carly would ask her to do something together as she wanted to explore the city a bit more and especially look at some bars.
And that's exactly what Carly did.
"Well I could help you decorate and afterwards we could go to this bar. Its not far my boyfriend works there as bartender.
So we would probably get discount"
She giggled.
Tuva did too.
She liked carly even though they only met a few hours ago.
She actually was a little shocked that she had already made three friends in those two days she was here in Dublin.
But she didn't mind Infact it made her happy.
"Oh I'd love to! I actually saw this cute decoration shop like ten minutes away from my apartment. They had really pretty decorations but I needed to leave as two men entered I don't know I just had that weird feeling you know?"
Tuva told carly about that weird feeling that had not left her since she saw that women in the supermarket earlier.
"Oh I understand! Well you're not gonna see them again so it's a plan for tomorrow"
She said smiling at me.

Time had passed fast and Tuva sat in the train back again.
She didn't know how to feel it was actually a pretty good first day but that incident that happened in the morning wouldn't leave her mind.
The feeling had not left like it did when she saw that men.
It followed her.

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