c a s t a w a y s

one.

"Are you sure you've got everything you need?" mom asks me with a worried expression. I sigh. "Yes mom, I promise." She hugs me and dad pats my shoulder. "Good luck buddy", he smiles. I smile back and I can see a worried glimpse in his eye. "I'll be okay, stop worrying you two." They both nod. "Good bye buttercup" dad says and mom just waves with tears in her eyes. "Bye" I smile and close the door. The door to my own room. On campus. Well, almost my own room. Another girl is moving in here tonight too. I sit down on my bed and looks around. "It's not big, but it serves" I say to myself before packing up my stuff. 

Maybe I should introduce myself. My name is Mollie. I have blonde, shoulder long hair and blue eyes. And I've been bullied my whole life, and I don't understand why. I have never been the odd kid. I have never looked different from anyone else. 

I've always been scared of going outside, because they're always there. The mean eyes. But now, I've decided to take a big step - and start college, even if my health isn't 100%. Because I am depressed, and I have serious anxiety. It's hard to explain to someone who's never experienced it. But it feels like you're on the edge 24/7 and that you always have to carry a backpack full of heavy rocks.

 I put my brown leather diary under my mattress. It may be childish, but I love writing down all my feelings, and what happened throughout the day, it makes me calm down a bit. Just as I've done that, a tall, slim, brown-haired girl walks in, carrying two big boxes, which seems very heavy for those arms. I stand up immediately. "I'll help you with this", I say without thinking and help her to put them down. "Thanks! I'm Sage", she says and reaches for my hand. I squeeze it. "I'm Mollie" I nod shyly and Sage keeps on smiling. "So you're my new roommate. Cool!" she bursts and sounds happy. Too happy.

Two hours later I've got to know Sage inside and out. She's 20, one year older than me, and lives with her mom, has three siblings and loves The 1975. I shudder. Ew. Not my music taste. I've also told her about me and it actually seems like she likes me. Well, I like her. I'm happy I got her as a roomie. 

Later we decide to go buy some McDonald's for dinner. Just as we sit down, four loud boys walks in. One sings, two others talk about what sounds like band practice and the fourth drums too dedicated in the air. When I look at Sage, she stares at them just as much as I feel I'm doing. I kick her leg under the table. "Don't stare!" I whisper and she just nods back. "Oh my god, they're coming this way" she lips and before I really understand, I have a blue haired boy beside me. "Hey" he smiles and another guy, the one with peach skin and dark hair adds "I hope it's okay that we sit here. We saw you on campus and just wanted to say hi!" I nod and sip on my Coke. "Totally fine." "HEY!", the third boy, the drummer, screams out, "we haven't introduced ourselves! I'm Ashton", he points at the blue haired boy beside me, "his name is Michael but you can call him nerd," he nods at the boy with the dark hair, "his name is Calum, and" he pokes the last guy, the one who sang, "this is Luke. He's a bit shy but it won't last", he giggles and I get all warm inside. His giggle was the cutest I've ever heard! "So, what about you?" I squirm. "Well..my name is Mollie, and this is Sage, my new roommate." "Cool" the blue haired boy comments and I notice he has tattoos and a lot of bracelets on his left arm. Just like I used to have...

20 minutes passed fast, and when the boys stand up to leave, me and Sage does too. The drummer boy, Ashton, hugs us both. "Nice to meet you. Let's hope we have some classes together, we're all new, too. Bye!" and then they just disappear. Sage takes a breather. "What was that?" Yeah, what was that? I don't know...

hello friends. i decided to make a new story, i just came up with this and i hope at least one person will like it lol, i just wanna warn you that this story contains stuff that may be triggering or sexual, so if you're not inte that byebye :---) no but seriously, if u read this, ilysm boo