Time Will Tell

Chapter 2

Have you ever felt like you've forgotten something important when you wake up? That's the exact feeling I felt when I woke up this morning. That is until I realized I had woken up an hour late on my first day of college.

I woke to my late alarm, when I first heard it I couldn't think what was wrong,until I finally decided to look at my phone. 8:00 am the dimly lit screen notifies me, I can't believe I've already woken up late and it's only the first day. Scrambling out of bed, I look around my room and see that my roommate/best friend of 2 years has already left me, "Great. Thanks Sage, thanks for leaving me," I say to myself. I root through my newly organized drawers to find a pair of paint splattered jeans. As I'm pulling them up, I shimmy over to the combined closet and find a shirt that looks like it matches the jeans. I grab my backpack from the seat of my desk chair, seize my much valued camera off the back of the chair and slide my phone into my back pocket. Closing the door behind me I run down 2 flights of stairs to the ground floor level. "Crap where are the bikes held again?" I mumble to myself looking around the dorm room lawn. "Oh there they are, over by the road, duh." Running over to the bikes, I check the time, 8:10. Wow I can get ready fast. Jumping on my bike I pedal towards my first class in the English building. When I get to the Commons area, I slow down and decide to get coffee because might as well be hella late and get a coffee. As I'm looking for a coffee place I see a guy drop a girl on the ground. "College is weird," I think to myself. I find the coffee place not before letting a guy get in front of me because looking at his band I see that he only has a few seconds left before he meets his "soulmate." Now we see the magic happen.

One guy accidentally bumped into the other, looking down at his wrist he sees the time left. It gets deathly quiet because we all know what is going to happen. The other guy finally notices how quiet it is and looks down at his band, I guess he finally comprehended what happened and turns around. You can basically feel the tension in the air as for a minute or so all they do is stare between each other and their bands.

The first guy finally breaks the tension. "Hi," he breathes and you can tell he's internally panicking.

"Oh my," the other guy says.

"What?" God this is just like those sappy movies, no one knows what to say.

"You can't possibly be my soulmate." Nice dude, be rude.

"What?" the first guy asks baffled. Is what all he can say?

"You're hot. You can't possibly be my soulmate. I don't deserve someone who looks like you."

And with that everyone goes back to what they are doing, some emotional people are crying and I'm awkwardly trying to get around them. I finally get to the front of the line and inform the guy that I want a double shot latte. After about 3 minutes I finally get my coffee and check the time again. 8:30. Now I'm going to be late. I look around and see the the new soulmates are still there so I snap a picture. Maybe I can use this as an excuse as to why I'm late. Pedaling faster, I finally get to the English hall at 8:35 and my class starts at 8:40. I find the directory and see it's on the second floor. I locate the class and see that I know no one, of course since the fact that it's my first day of college. I set my stuff down in the middle of the class and sit down. Looking around I notice barely anyone is really there. I check my schedule and find out that the class doesn't actually start till 9:00, just my luck. Pulling out my laptop, I bump my wristband on the table. 27 days it blinks at me ominously.

I can't stand these wristbands, ever since before my grandparents were born the government has been implanting these on people's wrists and they count down the days till they find their "soulmate." Then, they fall off a few days after you find your soulmate and the date that you find each other is tattooed onto your body for the rest of your life. I personally think they are crap, I mean how can they really tell who your soulmate is, there's no science behind it. While I'm contemplating the wristbands I feel a kid sit down beside me, before I look around the classroom I think, Wow there are so many different empty seats and you just had to sit beside me. "Excuse me can you not sit so close to me? There are a bunch of empty seats," I say rudely while shoving my wrist under my desk, really wishing I could've covered it or something before I left.