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Skylar's POV

He's looking at me from across the campus green. His blue eyes staring straight into my own hazel ones. His stare held my own and as badly as I wanted to, I couldn't look away. He slowly starts walking towards me. His eyes darkening with every step he takes towards me. I try to move, to run, to do anything. Scared of what he might do because I was staring, but my body is frozen.

Seconds later, he's standing in front of me, grabbing me by my waist pulling our bodies close together. I try to control my breathing and the fast beating of my heart as he leans in so his lips are right by my ear.

"you know it's not nice to stare." He whispers, sending shivers down my spine. He pulls away and looks me in the eye. A smirk present on his face as his lips lean int-

Before his lips could even meet mine, I'm jolted awake. Did I really just dream that? I think to myself as I recall the dream I just had. I shake my head telling myself I will not think of that boy any more. I grab my phone seeing I had missed calls and text messages, but I ignore then all and check the time. I groan when I realized I slept the whole day, it was already 7:43pm. I sit up and stretch as my body was sore from laying in the same position for over 7 hours.

Just as I am in the middle of a stretch, the door swings opens and I can't hold the scream in that escapes my mouth.

"Oh wow, you would be great in a horror movie if you screamed like that." The mysterious girl, 100% positive that she was my roommate, says as she shuts the door behind her and chuckles.

"Sorry, I didn't mean to scream. You just scared the shit out of me." I breathe out as I try to take deep breaths, and calm myself down.

"You must be Skylar. I'm your roommate, Emily." She says with a thick southern accent, as she comes over and holds out her hand

"Yeah, Its nice to finally meet you." I laugh a little as I stand up to shake her hand. As I shake her hand, I look over her appearance. Her hair is the first thing that pops out to me. It's a lilac purple, I give her props cause not many people could pull that look off. My eyes glance from her hair to look at her eyes, which are a striking blue color. I began to get more self conscious, the more that I look at her features. To add to her perfect features, I noticed her teeth were perfectly straight, and her skin was flawless.

"Wow. Your like super pretty." I say as I lay back down on my bed.

"Me? No! Look at you, I would literally love to have your body figure." Emily says as she goes to take off her combat boots then sliding off the flannel she was wearing, leaving her in her skinnys and a tank top as she lays down on her bed across from mine.

"Seriously though, why is everybody on this campus so good looking. Especially the boys." I say without thinking. Not saying anything else cause I didn't mean to bring up the boy part. I seriously thought I wasnt going to bring up the blue eyed boy after my dream I woke up from. DAMMIT.

"Ooooooh!! You met someone already didn't you!!" She squeals as she hops off her bed and comes over to mine, jumping on it.

"I didnt say that." I say, avoiding eye contact as I sit up beside her, our backs against the wall.

"You didnt have to!! Now come on,we're going to be besties. We have to tell each other this kind of stuff." She says as she gives me a genuine smile. To be honest, I already felt like me and Emily were great friends and that it was only going to get stronger as the year went on.

"Well... I actually ran into TWO good looking boys today. The first boy I met accidentally slammed my nose in the door, but he was really sweet, his name was Calum. Then there was this boy with blue eyes and blonde hair, who was actually kind of rude b-"

"Wait a minute. Calum as in CALUM HOOD?" She interrupts me, her blue eyes wide.

"Um, I didnt catch his last name." I say as I raise my eyebrow at her,

"Brown hair, brown eyes, dark skinned, and a perfect smile?" She questions further as she goes over to grab her phone from where she laid it on her bed then return to sit on mine.

"Yeah..."I say hesitantly as she had described him the exact same way I had.

"That means you also met Luke Hemmings, whom is known to be best friends with Calum Hood." She says as I see her scrolling through a page on Twitter or maybe it was Facebook?

"I dont know does he have blonde hair, blue eyes, a lip piercing, and an Australian accent?" I say, genuinely interested in what she was going to say next.

"Yes." She says as I scoot closer to see her phone screen as she shows me a tweet.

@NYUConfessions: Dear incoming freshman girls, I'm sure getting boyfriends is something you were looking forward to, besides getting an education of course, but beware not to fall under sophomore luke hemmings charms cause you wont get anywhere with him.

"Wait what?" I say as I grab the phone out of her hands and read it again. "What is this?"

"Every university used to have like a confessions page that talks about the students and basically what goes around campus. The user posts about good or bad things around campus. If you get mentioned on here for good things, your popular. If its bad, then the rest of your college experience is going to be complete hell basically." Emily says as I hand her back her phone.

"So is this Luke guy extremely popular or has it been hell for him?" I say, continue to question her about Luke.

"By the looks of this page, hes extremely popular. Even when BAD things are said about him, he's still popular. Girls are all over him even though they know he doesn't want anything more than a one night stand, it's ridiculous." She shrugs as she continues to scroll through the page on her phone.

"Hmm.." I say thinking about the blue eyed boy I finally have been able to put a name to. Luke.

"Seriously Skylar. You should really stay away from Luke. I've barely been here two days and I already heard a lot of things about him." Emily says as she goes back to her bed.

"Its not like we had a nice first encounter. He was so rude, and I don't befriend fuckboys." I say, not even believing myself as the words come out of my mouth. I was intrigued by Luke, and I was determined to find out why.

Authors Note:

hEY GUYS. so sorry it took so long to update. I had to get a feel of the way I was heading with this book. Now I think I have! I changed the title of the book, and the cover cause it seemed more fit! It was originally called disconnected but that had nothing to do with the plot I wanted so I changed it to New York. I hope you guys like it. This chapter was kind of get to know Skylars roommate and learn more about Luke. So the  the college I attended had a confessions page, and I never got mentioned on it thankfully but the people who did. Wellll let's just say they didn't have a very good year. Anywhoooo I didnt read over and edit but I will later! But hope you guys have a great day/night. love you! I'll update soon :)