Unexpected

Chapter 1- Aurora

 Staring at my computer sitting at the coffee shop looking at the work for my English class that is as easy as can be but the question is making this class so hard. 'Who will you be in 10 years' I can tell you about anything that I have achieved or any award but nothing about myself. I have never proved to anyone that I am more than my academics. Don't plan on that either. I shouldn't have to because I know myself and that can be the most reliable thing sometimes. I know me is a good person and someone who is genuinely caring. No one will see that but that is okay. I have come to terms with that. 

 The coffee shop is small but I can focus and get my loads of work done here. Many people can. It usually has only 2-3 people at a time but I prefer that over anything. Quiet. I am very quiet but very opinionated when I need to be. Just trust me that there is plenty with some of the people I attend Apple University with. All rich and full of themselves. I know I go here too but I would never act the way some of these people do. I get it though sometimes. They are just living and I am just a boring person. I went home this summer and believe I know why. My mom is a single mom and trying to always make sure that I am safe and protected. I grew up that way too and now I am just stuck in the past. As always. I am trying not to think about what's down this summer. Putting everything behind me was the point of going home. But this place smells like home, the good part anyway. Feels like it too, with good vibes and people all over. 

"How are you?" called Claire, my best friend, dragging my head up from my computer. I don't think I should answer because I think my eyes could speak millions right now. When I left for my hometown, which is a whole other thing. Thinking 'Oh when I come back I can easily catch up with schoolwork'. I should have just convinced myself otherwise because when I came back, stack and stack of work that is required for me to pass. All the work was just for me too, just because I was the only girl in my class and passing. Which is awkward but I like it because it proves that I'm smarter than the average man. Some men at least.  But somehow he is worried about me graduating. Seriously?! So I am the only one you are worried about? I am the only one who has to get extra work? It does not matter though because he knows I will do it anyway. Kiss ass to my core. 

Claire snaps right in front of my nose. "Again with the daydreaming, there is no reason to do that if I am right here." She says while she has the cockiest grin on her face. Claire is my only friend here, when I first moved here, no one wanted to be friends with me because to be honest, I was kind of a nerd. Claire is the opposite of me, pretty, confident, and smart with the longest healthiest hair and most beautiful blue eyes I think I have ever seen. Always has been and most likely always will be the most wonderful person to ever lay eyes on and know. The only thing that sucks is that whenever I am with her and other people, she changes into a whole different person. Someone that I do not even know who she is when around her. That sounds like she is being two-faced, which in some ways she is, but she has been there for me through everything. Everyone says that but does not mean it, for her I mean it. Every step of the way. Guided me through life at college and saw me in the worst state ever and still stayed. She has done more of course, but just those things make me not want to lose her. But eventually, she will get bored of me or whatever you want to call it. I want to stay with her forever. She is my fun, my life, and everything more. 

Speaking of someone who is not someone I care if I ever see again. Dean. Captain of the Apple University hockey team. The most annoying human being I think I have ever had the chance to meet. With his body formed from heaven and his being 6'4 certainly helps with him getting girls. Also those eyes, goodness those eyes. I have to say, he's attractive, but that bad attitude towards people and other things makes up for that.  He has done nothing to me personally but to my best friend. Is something different. I also saw him be mean to some freshmen instead of guiding them through the hardest year of college. Which is traumatizing when you are just trying to fit in. I know that all too well.