Fate

A new life

Fleur POV

Today was the day. My first day at Elms. I was beyond excited, but also pretty nervous.

When I woke up, my mom was already up, making me breakfast. Ever since she came to visit for my 20th birthday party, she had been staying at the hotel with me until my first day. I got up out of bed, got dressed and walked into the kitchen.

"Well, you look nice." My mom said.

"Thanks, I especially bought this outfit for this day." I replied.

"Of course you did." She chuckled.

I smiled, picked up a plate of pancakes and sat at the table. I dug into them, eating selfishly out of nerves for today.

"Woah, hun, relax, you don't need to stress eat just because it's your first day of collage. Don't worry, you'll get through it, I promise."

I sighed, knowing she was right but still couldn't help thinking about everything that could go wrong today. What if the teachers didn't like me. My luggage could get lost. What if I don't have enough money for food or my books. I could simply just freak out when I walk in there, knowing what's ahead of me.

I sighed, nodding, and throwing my arms around her when she moved to embrace me. I almost started crying.

"I'm really gonna miss you mom." I said, my voice muffled in her shirt.

"I'm going to miss you too, sweetie."

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I walked up to the front steps of the collage, looking up at the huge building. I took a few deep breathes, then walked inside, trying to hold in my excitement. I gasped as I walked in. The place was huge, and gorgeous. The sides of the walls were lined with pillars that reached up to the curved ceiling, decorated with design. It was even better than the pictures.

I went up to the front counter, got my information for my dorms and followed as a teacher who worked there gave a tour of the school. I was fascinated by everything they had there. It was a pretty big school.

At the end of the tour, it was around 3 in the afternoon. They showed us to our dorms and let us settle in with our new roommates. Actual classes wouldn't start until tomorrow, they said.

I trudged my luggage up to my dorm, excited to meet my new roommate, though I hoped she wouldn't be mean. Or annoying. Or like clingy or anything. I sighed as I got to my dorm room, suddenly nervous.

When I got in she wasn't even there, somehow making me more nervous because I couldn't meet her yet. I put down my suitcases next to a random bed, not really caring which one because in my defense, she wasn't even here yet.

After about 10 minutes of unpacking, there was a knock on the door. That's strange. I went to go answer it and was greeted by a short redhead with curls and a huge smile. I smiled too and said,

"You must be my roommate."

"Yep. I'm Clary. Oh, I um knocked just in case I didn't get the right dorm."

"Oh, yeah it's fine, uh, I'm Fleur."

"Fleur. Nice name."

"Thanks."

She laughed, breaking the awkward silence, and that's when I knew she wouldn't be a bad roommate. We unpacked our stuff together, making small talk and getting to know each other. I found out she was just like me, didn't really like parties or anything, like most collage girls did.

At about curfew, which was 9:30, we finally finished unpacking, at least she did, I still had a few more boxes, but those weren't entirely important, I could just leave them for tomorrow. We stayed in, she was reading some book called City of Bones, while I called my mom.

"Hi honey, how was your first day?"

"Oh it was pretty good. My roommates great."

"Oh that's good." She replied.

We sort of just stayed on the call for a few more seconds, not awkwardly, but in a sort of comfortable silence.

"So what'd you do? Did you start your classes yet?"

"Um- no not yet. I mean, we just took a tour of the school then they gave us some time to unpack, and stuff."

We talked about each others day for about half an hour before I decided it was getting late and I should probably go to sleep.

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I groaned, waking up in a start from a strange dream containing interestingly enough my new roommate and a washing machine. I look over at the alarm clock and it read 3:02.

I got up, going to go to the bathroom, when I noticed that coincidentally my roommate was up too and in the only bathroom we had. That's strange.

I ignored it for now and just went outside to the dorms public bathrooms, not feeling like waiting especially since they were so close to our dorm room. But of course I had to get lost. I turned a wrong corner and suddenly I was in the main hall. I sighed, going back and trying to retrace my steps, even considering calling Clary for help when suddenly I froze, and my whole world stopped. I stood there, in the middle of the main hall, just staring at him, literally not believing my eyes, even considering that I was hallucinating because of the lack of sleep. I felt like I couldn't move, even though I was probably being dramatic, I felt numb inside again. He seemed to be having the same problems.

I dared taking a step forward. His eyes widened and I could see him lean forward slightly. A thousand thoughts passed through my head suddenly and I ignored them all. All rational thoughts and sleep thoughts and any other thoughts were gone, it was as if he could get into my head and pull them all out, just the sight of his face blocking them from coming back. I stifled a gasp as he suddenly took 3 steps forward, our noses nearly touching. I couldn't breathe. I honest to god couldn't breathe. He had gotten taller, almost an inch or two taller then me now. A year from seeing his face felt like a century. I looked up cautiously into his eyes, feeling my heart stop completely at the baby blues that met mine. I almost couldn't hold myself back from kissing him, so I tried to say something, tried to step away, knowing it would be a terrible idea.

"I- You- Where- When- " was all I could get out. I shook my head, feeling pathetic, and took a deep breathe. I looked into his eyes again, greedily sucking in the sight of him, and then got the confidence to speak again.

"Axel?" I croaked out.