Devildice - rewrite

Dennis

I'm a week into college, still learning where my classes and and getting used to this new environment. I'm many hours away from my family and completely on my own now for the first time.
I'm twenty one now, I decided after a few years that I don't want to work at my fathers casinos and I want to peruse my own work life.
He took it pretty hard but he understood, I need to gain my independence in this world.

The campus is large, and it's very beautiful, the main halls are decorated with many plants and architecture, the cafeteria is large and spacious, and the courtyards are full of flowers, trees, walkways, streams and grass.
I'm very glad I chose Pine Basin college. The tuition was a little pricey but not much worse that the other local colleges near my hometown.

The day Is finishing up and I'm sitting in my English class, finishing up some homework for other classes in the free time.

English is a tough subject for me, I have to work a little harder to pass. It's not helpful that the professor is one of those entitled teachers where getting a B is considered failure.

Class eventually gets dismissed and I stand up from my desk collecting my papers and pencils and neatly putting them in my school bag. I walk down the isle and see a devil and a cuphead look up at me from their seats. Their eyes follow me and I can feel them looking at me from behind. I glance at them and they look away, beginning to gather their own things for the end of class.

I wonder if they were talking about me or something.
I had quite a few friends back in high school but we all ended up moving our own separate ways. We still keep in touch here and there but now that I'm here it's up to me to gain some new friends.
Maybe the devil boy and cuphead girl want to be friends? They didn't look menacing, they looked more curious than not.

I shrug it off not thinking too much of it. I think I know the devils name, he's Roper, at least I think it is just from the professor calling on him once or twice.

I exit the room and enter one of the main halls that slowly fills with students making their way outside to be done for today, getting ready for their after school jobs or going home for homework.

I exit the large building and make my way through the paths winding through various other buildings, art class buildings, coding buildings, science buildings and so on. There's quite a few and each is built as impressive as the last.

I make my way down the courtyard and accidentally drop my phone I've been holding trying to find something to listen to. I pick it up and without looking step right in the way of someone colliding slightly.
I immediately apologize.
"Oh god I'm so sorry! I didn't see you." I say. It's a devil, I haven't seen him before.
He looks at me with a strange expression and doesn't say anything and strides past quickly.

Hopefully I didn't just piss him off.
I finally make it to the parking lot where my old used car is. There's a group of students socializing right next to my car, I have to sort of squeeze my way through to get to my door. As I approach it I notice something. A note left in my windshield.
Strange. I hope it's not some parking ticket or a stupid Acappella group desperate for singers.
I snatch it and unfold it revealing a number. Nothing else. I look around, the group of students have walked away now.
Was it one of them? I think I saw a few girls in the group. It could've been one of them?

Just leaving a phone number is pretty strange, no message or name.
I pocket the note for later, feeling a little intrigued and flattered too.