XX

Everyone was high on life. Dancing. Getting drunk. Grinding and finding just about anyone to suck faces with. In a way it made me envious that I could not be like how they were wholeheartedly. My outfit said yes but my gut screamed no. It was so much different then what I am used to.

Metrox University was definitely was not what I had prepared myself for.

Metrox International University was less like a university and rather an office building. From the glass wall to the monotone gray chrome theme to finally the lack of any outdoor rest areas. Still, it was one of the top ranked university and here I am, enrolled.

"Anna!" I heard a shout. I turned around to the sight of the beautiful red-haired Turkish girl, Yasmine. I smiled and stopped walking as she walked gracefully towards me. The thing about Menter University, it was basically a vault of fresh out of high school filthy rich teenagers.

Clearly Yasmine's Louis Vuitton made that pretty obvious. "Hi Yasmine, what's up?"

"Menter night tonight, you never confirmed" She said. Not only was Menter University famous for their rankings, high tuition, rich students but it was also known for some reason to be the university with the best regular party. Which, was what Yasmine wanted to know from me.

"Don't worry, I'm coming" I smiled. "I was just so busy I forgot to reply your message." Or if I wanted to tell the truth, I could've honestly just blurted out about how I don't want to throw away my $250 to help pay for the stupid table nor do I want to spend the rest of the night pathetically trying to fit in with her type of crowds.

"Alright, I'll see you tonight then, it'd be fun" I faked a smile and walked away. It's not that Yasmine's a bad person, she's actually really nice but...it's just that- have you ever felt like you don't belong no matter how nice everyone is being?

I came from a small city where people don't spend their nights at clubs or go out to pretty expensive dinners in dresses and heels with extensive make-up. I came from a city where when people are nice they are genuinely nice, and there wasn't any need whatsoever to be worried that they're setting you up.

It was that intense here.

For days now, Yasmine's been trying to reach out to me about Menter Night. She wanted to open the full couch in the club Menter booked and it is about 2 grand. I was one of the lucky 8 to contribute in paying for the reservation.

Menter night is all about the showing off. If you've got cash, you flaunt it. You open the damn couch and sit around in the club looking like you're the richest people there.

Pretty stupid but if I say no then there's not much to say about my reputation. The first day I got to Menter I had an awful time fitting in, these people thought I was cool and worth hanging out with but as time goes by they finally realized what a 'minority' I am.

Most of these people where brought up in a similar surroundings where they were surrounded by rich people maybe even from they were kids up until today whereas I was a different story.

Since I was a brought up in a simple small city, I was never bothered to learn how to enjoy my parent's fortune and I had never fret over brands or how to be a graceful social butterfly. Now that I got here, everything is 180 degrees different. 

Either way, since there had been a time where I was almost friendless, I stopped playing it my way and reinvented myself. Then was born the New Anna. I stopped behaving the same way I did in my hometown and expect people here to accept me rather I adapt to them.

Inventing the "New Anna" was definitely working, and it gave me friends. I got a social life, finally, but, being this "New Anna" was still an experiment and it wasn't guaranteed to be working but it was definitely better than the Old Anna, the girl with the sideshow status as the little city freak. That's why like it or not, I'll try my best to go to outings like Menter Night and show people that I can adapt that I am not that little city freak anymore. 

hiiii. it's been awhile but i'm back with a new story. i'm 2 years older than i was before so hopefully i'll get better at writing. imma upload the first actual chapter a$ap but I need to see that i'm not doing it in vain. so yeah, bye! thanks for reading, and hii! i'm back.