College TINGS

Friends and fiends

ZARAS POV

I walked about and checked my lanyard again when a girl with brown curly hair came up to me
"Please tell me your confused as I am" she laughed next to me
"Yeah trust me your not the only one" I said smiling back laughing lightly
"Wait so are we meant to be in some type of Workshop class right now" she asked
"I think so ya know but I don't know what room" I replied walking down the line corridors noticing that the other students had already gotten sat down into class
"Shit I think were late" I said my eyes growing wider
"Oh I'm Layla by the way" she said smiling
"Zara nice to meet you" I said
"Well what did you apply for here" she asked stopping
"Chemistry and engineering" I said instantly regretting my choices as I knew my course was up their in the hardest list
"Ooooooh gurl you gon be stressed out" she said laughing lightly
"What about you anyway" I asked her
"Pharmacy" she said proudly
"That's good" I said politely
"Right so we should Urm get going I mean there must be a person round here to show us our class" I said to Layla whilst walking up to a help office

"Urm excuse me we just wanted to check what room we should be in as we don't know where it is" Layla asked after knocking on the office door being met by a middle aged looking teacher
"Oh yeah sure here right so you should be in C7 for medicine courses and any engineering is in F11 here you should've been given one of these at the start of the day" he said handing a map of the university
" thank you so much mr..." I said waiting for his name
"Thompson" he said happily
"Yeah mr Thompson" I said afterwards

We left the office and headed to our classes I took Layla's number so that we could meet for lunch after our 'introduction to the course' lecture ugh it already sounded boring and being 13 mins late wasn't what I planned at all
I rushed to the door That said F11 and walked in everyone's eyes shooted my way as all the chatter stopped.
I cleared my throat and stepped in
"Sorry I'm late I couldn't find even the roo-" I said before I was interrupted
" you must be Zara thought there was someone missing from the register" she said in her high pitch voice

the teacher said she was female with short brown mousy hair that just reacher her shoulders she was scrawny and short

"Yep that's me" I said slightly under my breath
"Well there isn't much choices for seats so just take the one at the back" she said pointing with her pen to the back of the room
I could feel everyone's eyes burning my back almost assessing the way I walked what I wore and the way I had just talked I hated the attention truly...
I looked over to my seat and say a tall tanned boy sitting comfortably in his seat, he had long dreads and wore almost the equivalent to what I was except he wore an Iowa sweater

I sat down calmly trying to get the attention of me I set my bag down as the lecturer started to speak again I peered over my right to see the boy that sat next to me wanting to see what his face looked like but I quickly darted my eyes away Before he noticed I could see him watching my legs as I brought one over the other and assessing my body as I foldedy arms
This wasn't awkward at all

"So now I want you to turn to the person next to you and tell them a fact about yourself ya know introduce yourself cause you will be seeing one another a lot on this course" the teacher yelled loud enough for us to all hear

The chatter started again from the once silence as everyone started to conversate, i smiles hoping that the boy next to me wasn't socially awkward
He turned in his chair abruptly
"Hey" he said smiling brightly
Dammmm did this boy have white teeth I was mesmerised by his pearly whites
"Heyy" I laughed lightly
"Well I'm zion and you are Zara I'm guessing" he said min his deep voice
"Good guess" I said lightly whilst smiling "nice to meet you zion"
We both shook hands and started talking
"So then tell me about yourself" he asked
"Okay Urmm im 19 I am Canadian born and I'm ethnically Bahraini which is a small ass country in Middle East Urm what else I love chemistry but I love music more than anything and I'm the only child" I said sighing deeply at the end

"Interesting wait so your Arab then right" Zion asked
"Hmm yeah" I said laughing at his stupidness
"Cooool" he replied
"What about yourself" I said
"I'm 19 aswell I have 2 other siblings aswell and I'm the fucking middle child I'm a mix of African and white hence why I be light skin I love music too and i can actually play guitar" he said proudly

"That's cool I actually don't know how to play any instrument" I said nonchalantly
"Whattt well maybe I can teach you sometime"he replied
I could feel him checking out my face not only looking at my eyes but every so often letting them trail to my lips then to my hair then often to my legs
I mean I couldn't lie and say he wasn't good looking cause girl he was probably the cutest light skin I've seen around in a long ass time and he seemed great but I only just met him so I couldn't be thinking about anything too serious.

"Okayyyy that's it your time is up" the teacher shouted as everyone calmed down
"Please take out your notebooks I hope you all brought one as this isn't high school anymore and take notes from the slides I'm about to show you" the teacher said informatively
I reached down grabbing my bad and my pencil case taking it out and pulling my chair in so that I could sit upright I could feel zion do the same he also moved an inch closer tucking his chair in.
I tucked my hair behind my ears sorting it out pushing my top back a little so that it stayed in place and wouldn't expose my whole rack when I lent down to write just girl problems ya know
(Teacher stats talking)
"Pst" Zion says tapping his finger against my arm it almost makes me jump
"What" I say quietly
"Have you got a spare pen I can borrow" he ask flashing that same amazing smile
I rolled my eyes how could this guy not have a pen
"Seriously" I said opening my case and taking out a black pen
"Oh come on I didn't think you would be that mean to not give me a pen" he said teasingly
I looked forward the whole time so that I didn't miss any notes
But when I turned to head to hand the pen only now did I realise how close zion was sitting next to me I could fell his breath against my face as I gave him the pen he smirked lightly. I don't know why but I felt like fine had stopped like it was only me and him in the room why Zara snap out of this

"URM COULD THE WTO LOVEBIRDS PAY ATTENTION PLEASE" the teacher exclaimed over everyone

I instantly snapped out my daze everyone turned in unison staring at me and Zion I slouched slightly in my chair trying not to look at everyone in the eye.

"We apologise miss Gonzales" Zion said apologetically
"Thank you now let's carry on" she said

That's her name I thought in my head miss Gonzales I most kept missed the teacher introduction at the start

We carried on writing as I lifted my head and nudged Zion which my elbow
He instantly turned my way
"Thank you" I mouthed yet whispered
He winked at me and smiled
God did my heart beat faster than usual ...