Typhon

Chapter 2

Rylee~

This was it.

Already a month into the groove of things, this was my senior year at Hales University, and I was only a few months away from the next phase of my life. So, the energy all around me was sizzling with the undercurrent of all the possibilities that laid before me.

Now, luckily for me, I came from a modest but blessed family background. My parents, Glen and Robin Madden, were regular, every day, hard-working folk; very salt-of-the-earth kind of people. My father was a pharmacist, and my mother was a lab technician, and they'd met in college through their common interests, and it'd been a good life all around.

I had also lucked out in the sibling department. While I was twenty-two, my brother, Bishop, was twenty-six and a Marine. He was a career military man, and he was always deployed somewhere or other. However, with technology being what it was these days, we were able to communicate with him more often than had it been forty years ago.

As for me, my passion was computer science. I still wasn't quite sure what I wanted to do with my degree once I graduated, but I loved the challenge of technology. I loved trying to figure out how things worked and how to make them better. I appreciated growth, and I wasn't one of those people that were afraid of change.

Now, while there wasn't anything wrong with contentment, that wasn't for me. I wanted every day to be a new day, and with technology evolving so rapidly, I was guaranteed to get that with a computer science degree.

Also, college was very important to my parents. My family wasn't wealthy by any means, but my parents had saved and saved to make sure that Bishop and I had received quality educations. Bishop had lucked out with the military helping to pay for his education, but my parents had still made sure that he'd gotten his fair share of what they'd saved for him.

Their dedication and advocacy of higher learning had also been a real motivation for me these past few years. With everything that they'd sacrificed, so that Bishop and I hadn't had to take out student loans, it was enough to motivate me to make sure that I did something magnificent with my education, and I hadn't ever taken one day at Hales University for granted.

Hales University was also another thing altogether. While HU was a welcoming campus, you still couldn't help but notice how some of the students that went here were from some of the most prestigious and wealthiest families in the country. The first time that I'd ever seen Ross Carmichael walking across campus our freshmen year, I had tripped all over myself. After that, whenever I'd come across any American royalty, I'd done my best not to gawk.

Still, could you blame a girl?

Hales University was crawling with all kinds of beautiful people, but there were always those few that stood out, no matter how surrounded by other beauty they were.

For example, you had Ross Carmichael with his blonde hair and startling blue eyes, Saxton Voss with his raven-black hair and piercing grey eyes, Fox Harrington with his brown hair and bright hazel eyes, August Remington with his dark blonde hair and chocolate-colored eyes, and then you had Stone Lexington with his dark brown hair and bedroom-brown eyes. Also, let's not forget that they were all built like goddamn Greek gods.

Oh, and let's also not forget about the females that walked Hales University's campus. If the guys were magnificent to look at, then the girls were just as stunning.

For more examples, you had one of my best friends and roommate, Laney Spinner, that was classically beautiful with her light brown hair and matching light brown eyes. She was taller than me at five-foot-six, but that's because she had legs for days. Her personality also matched her perfect looks. Laney was going into social services after graduation, and that was a testament to how awesome she was.