It's summer, it's hot, we shouldn't be outside. Those were the three things looping through my mind as I pushed my way through the bushes. Of all days to have their outdoor scavenger hunt, it had to be today. The first week and summer was already we...
"Kian honey, make sure you didn't forget anything," Mom said from the window of the car. I slung my messenger bag over my shoulder and readjusted my grip on my small suitcase. "And make sure to send me a text or a call at least once a week but everyday is preferred okay? And have fun!" I nodded and Mom waved me over. She kissed me on the cheek and then put on her seatbelt. I said goodbye and I walked up a part of the path towards the dorms before turning back and watching Mom's car disappear into the road that wound through the forest. I resumed trudging my way back up the path to the dorms.
"Hey Kian!" I heard someone say and I saw Micheal running up the side of the hill to catch up. "What's up man? Your glasses are crooked," Michael said. I paused and straightened them out before walking up with Michael to the dorm building.
"Which dorm are you in?" I asked. Maybe he would be my room mate by chance. Michael took a paper from his pocket and studied it for a few seconds.
"In room 318. What about you?" I was staying in 513, which meant that I couldn't be rooming with Michael. We parted ways on the stairs and I looked tiredly up the next three flights of stairs I would have to take to get to the floor that my dorm room was on. I started lugging my suitcase up the stairs.
After ten minutes of lugging my suitcases around the building I found room 513. I looked at the door, hoping my room mate wouldn't be there already. But my hope was shattered when I heard "Oh shi-take mushrooms there's a spider!" I opened the door.
Standing on one of the beds was a kid my age, wearing a cream colored sweater, black jeans, and a beanie. Toffee colored hair stuck out from under the beanie. In his hand he held a flip flop and he was pointing it at a spider that sat on one of the desks in the room. What I presumed to be the other flip flop was lying on the floor next to the mini fridge.
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(A/N: so this is what I thought the dorms to look like in this story but the measurements aren't 100 percent accurate)
"Hi," I said, not knowing how to react to seeing my room mate. "I'm Kian." The boy nodded, still staring intently on the spider. I sighed and put my bags down next to the bed on the left, which was the one he wasn't standing on.
I then saw a few plastic cups sitting on one of the desks so I took my dorm sheet and a cup.
"What are you doing?" He asked, slowly lowering the flip flop in his hand. I slipped the paper under the spider and trapped it under the cup before I carried it over to the window. I put the spider on the fridge while I opened the window and then put it on the wall outside. Then I closed the window, picked up the other flip flop and turned back.
"Thanks," He said, turning a bit pink. "I don't like spiders." I nodded. "I'm Emris."
"That was probably one of the weirdest circumstances I've ever introduced myself to someone after." I said after handing him back the flip flop. We both laughed.
"Are you staying the whole summer?" Emris asked, sitting down on his bed. I nodded.
"Yeah, what about you?" I asked. Emris said he was staying the entire summer too, and we both had the same camp instructors so it was convenient.
A/N 2: Hello there! I can't write a normal sounding conversation if my life depended on it right now tbh but I'm working on it! I hope over the course of this story I'll get better at this and I hope you enjoy the somewhat funny first encounter with Emris. ^^ That's actually how I once walked into one of my friends on a trip we took together and me also having arachnophobia like Emris I had freaked out with her and that spider still hadn't been found as far as we knew. Well see ya!
