Being Young

1.

"Ready for your first day?" Dad shouted walking into my room and waking me up.

"I guess I have to be!" I responded.

Today was my first day at Uni, and although I was extremely excited I was also very nervous about who I would meet and what it would be like. I think I've put very high expectations on this and I'm scared it won't live up.

"All your stuff is in the car so just be ready to leave by ten and we can get you down there by two."

"Yep, I'll be ready!"

I showered, I got dressed (choosing what to wear was very hard, especially when it's followed by the choice of lipstick) I went with a black denim skirt and blue shirt and a sort of red brown lipstick which matched my eyes. I was quite basic with my style but at least I wouldn't draw too much attention to myself.

I sat and had breakfast with my dad, he made eggs, bacon, sausages and even had 3 types of juice for me to choose from. I went with orange. He was asking me all kinds of questions but my mind kept coming back to who I'd be rooming with for the next few years of my life. And after watching the roommate my hopes were not very high. Probably not the right film to watch the night before I leave for Uni, well unless I'm hoping for a psycho. Which I'm not.

"Rose?"

Shit "yeah?"

"Did you hear me? What are you most excited for?"

"Ummm... I'm just excited to be in a new city"

A few minutes of pointless chit chat followed until I got up and began to organise myself to leave. I was nervous but it wasn't a bad nervous feeling. The butterflies were good...I think.

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An hour into the journey it started to brighten up outside which gave me some relief as the sun just makes the world seem happy to me. I put some music on and stared out the window letting hundreds of thoughts race through my head.

We reached about 1 o clock and I decided I needed a toilet break, so we pulled over at a station and I got us some drinks and some snacks on the way back to the car. As I got closer to the car i began to see all my stuff piled up in the back seats which made me realise that this was really happening. I was actually leaving home and I was going to have to be even more independent than I thought I already was.

The last hour of the car journey was silent as neither me or dad wanted to talk as we knew this would be the last bit of time we would spend together for a while which was quite upsetting as we've been so close for all these years.

We finally arrived and I could feel a million different things bubbling up inside me, the main things I could feel were fear and excitement and I guess they weren't too bad of a mix.

Dad and I found my room and carried all my things up what felt like a thousand steps. My roommate evidently wasn't here yet as half of the room was completely empty. I felt like I was in a film. This was exactly like how it looked on tv and I truthfully expected it to be far from it.

I made my bed and hung posters and art up on the walls and after an hour or two my dad decided that he should leave and let me go through the rest of the day by myself. So we said our goodbyes and I watched him get on the bus to the train station. I didn't really know what to do with myself so I just went back to my room and waited, the proper introductions weren't until tomorrow so there was nothing I needed to do. I could hear so many people piling in to their rooms above and below me, the people next to me were already playing music that I could probably have heard from a mile away. They will be fun neighbours to have. My roommate hadn't showed up and after reading through the upcoming events of the next week a few times I decided I should get some sleep.