Without You

Sequel Chapter 7 "Another vomit bucket"

*AUBREY'S POV*
-Three Weeks Later-

The day classes started, I was ready for it. In getting my BSN, I knew I'd have to take the general education and prerequisite courses before anything else.

I wasn't ready for how awkward I felt. I wasn't late or anything the first day, I was right on time but there were already a bunch of people there.

People older than me, some a lot older, and probably even some younger than me, who knows?

The room was on the smaller size, at least from what I had seen from pictures of normal lecture halls, and there weren't really any seats left where I wouldn't be sitting by myself, with no one next to me.

So, I had looked around for a quick second. I finally found a girl who looked nice and I walked to the seat beside her. For about two seconds, I had wracked my brain in an attempt to figure out how to ask if I could sit beside her.

"This seat's empty, you can sit," she smiled up at me and I sighed in relief.

"Thank you," I returned the smile and I took a seat.

"I know how you feel, last year, I was the exact same way," she explained and I laughed quietly. I had figured she was a sophomore, she looked less tense than most of the freshmen I had seen that morning.

"It's stressful," I took out a notebook at the same time she did, figuring she knew more than me.

"Last year, I took another general education course and I skipped out on this one for the year. I had no math last year and I loved it. Now, I just know I'm going to hate it," she explained why she was in the class.

"I don't want to take it either," I agreed. We had talked for another ten minutes while the rest of the larger class entered.

Other than telling me her name was Kayleigh, she mentioned she was majoring in meteorology and I found that to be one I hadn't heard since getting here.

After the lecture had ended, we exchanged numbers and she told me she'd keep my seat reserved.

I had made a new friend. Sort of.

The second lecture I had, I found that Blair and I had the same class, which made me excited. I was also excited that Luke's class was only a few rooms away and we could meet right after.

Blair couldn't walk with us though. Her second class was right after the one we shared and so she had to 'haul a-word' to her next one.

I had a different or a couple different classes each day and every one that wasn't with Blair or Kayleigh, I went through the same embarrassing 'can I sit here?' thing.

Thankfully, after the first week, it all began to get better.

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"I'm not doing it," Luke groans into my side as I take a seat on his bed.

The way we set our schedules up, my first class starts almost at the exact time his morning weight training starts.

His weight training ends thirty minutes before my morning class ends and he goes home and showers before going to his first class. His first class ends at the same time as my second one and we walk out of the building together.

Then, we have two hours before his second class and my third class of the day. So, we either go to one of our dorms, we eat, or go out and do something.

Most times, he naps.

"We've got to go soon," I giggle as I fix his crazy bed hair.

He lifts his head up to mine and he points to his lips. I lean forward and peck his lips.