I wake up to the annoying ringing of my alarm clock. When I pick up my phone I groan at the time as it reads 5:00 am. But my eyes immediately open wide at the realization that today is my first official day at NYU.
"Julie, wake up this is actually happening. Today is NYU." I shake her excitingly to wake her up.
"uhhhhh" is all I hear from her, but then when I mention to her that I'll make pancakes and bacon for breakfast, she gets out of bed.
I take a quick shower and put on a simple, yet cute purple polo shirt that reads "New York University" on it and black jeans and sneakers to go with it. I smile to myself, knowing that these six years of work have finally payed off.
When I set the bacon onto the stove, I call Jonathan and ask him where we should meet up.
"We should meet up at the very front of campus, just so you don't get lost, oh and I told Micheal that he should tag along with us, so he isn't alone. Is that okay?" he says to me.
Fuck me. I think to myself in annoyance at the thought of seeing Micheal, but Jon can't know about him, so I have to play along and act like I get along with him.
"Sure, he can come with us" I assure to my boyfriend over the phone and shortly hang up, so Julie and I can eat breakfast.
As I call her over I smile at the view of her wearing NYU uniform. The years of convincing our parents worked out well. Julie scarfs down the breakfast, I don't think that she even chewed it. Meanwhile I can barely eat over the nerves that are consuming me.
When I look at the time once more I see that it is 6:30 and that's when I tell Julie to hurry the hell up. I grab my bookbag and make sure that I have enough supplies to make sure I last at least the first day, but I overpacked, as I always do.
Before Julie and I walk out the door I look over to her and ask her "You ready?"
"No, but I have you, so I'll be fine." She smiles at me as we both walk out the door.
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It seems like forever, but Julie and I finally arrive to NYU and my teeth are chattering from fear. I don't know why but the first days of school always scared the crap out of me, on top of that I haven't been to school in two years so thats also great.
When we get out of our Uber Julie and I begin to look for Jonathan and immediately I see him smiling towards us and opening his arms to me as I get closer to him.
"Hey, you" he says as we kiss each other. From the corner of my eye I can see Micheal staring down at us, is he hurt by seeing us? But I quickly shut down any thoughts about him. I will not allow for him to ruin my first day at my dream school. He has already made heavy damage to my middle school years, and ever since I promised myself that he won't get the chance to hurt me again.
Jonathan and I intertwine hands as the four of us make our war to the main office to receive our schedules. This was the moment that defined how much I would suffer during my classes without Jonathan or Julie.
Each of us say our names to different administrators in the office and the first one to receive her schedule is Julie, then Jonathan, and myself. As the three of us hold up our schedules at the same time. I seem to smile at the fact that I have 3 classes with Julie but looking over at Jonathan's schedule I frown knowing that we only have one class together.
Jonathan pulls me close and comforts me with a kiss on the forehead. "We'll be fine, this piece of paper won't define our relationship" he assures me.
"Well....do you have any classes with Micheal?" he asks me. I don't even glance over at his face, let alone find out that I have even one class with him. But curiosity once again gets the best of me, glancing at Micheal's and realize that out of my five classes, I share four with him. Amazing.
"You see, things aren't so bad after all." Jonathan tells me. I nod my head yes at him but inside I want to curse the shit out of life for giving me this horrible punishment.
When Jonathan, Julie and I part ways I notice that Micheal is heading towards the path as me. Lucky me, my first period is with my "prince charming". Deciding to suck it up, and deal with life, I attempt to catch up to Micheal and we walk in silence towards our first period.
Because it is our first day, our professor Mrs. Young just reviews our syllabus and lets us talk in silent voices throughout our first period. Michael turns to me and says:
"Sooo is the plan to act like nothing happened between us, six years ago?"
I turn to him in complete and utter shock. "What happened??" I try to act innocent but inside I was dying.
"What do you mean 'What Happened'. Are we just going to pretend that you didn't leave me to go be with Jonathan after everything that happened between us?" he asked in shock
"ME!!! Are you going fucking crazy? Your misinformed, once again. I didn't leave you for shit. You were the one that called it off after I saw you hugging Molly in the hallway. You were the one who decided that Molly was better. You had the choice and you chose wrong, asshole." I practically scream at him.
Everything is dead silent. I look around the classroom and realize that everyone was looking at us crazy.
"Ms. Mendes.... Mr. Williams, one of you need to step out of this classroom before both of you will get severe punishment from the board" Mrs. Young states, anger laced in her voice.
I begin to gather my belongings but before I walk away, I turn to Michael and say "You win, once again. But this time, I am the one who is leaving... for good." I grabbed my things and headed out of the classroom but before completely leaving, I turn back to see Michael's face contort into anger and sadness but mostly... regret.
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Period 2-4 fly by quickly because Julie was in all of these classes. Unfortunate, Michael is in some as well, but we sat as far apart from each other as possible.
After the Professor told us that the class was dismissed, I packed my things and headed towards my fifth period. I was very excited for my fifth period because one, it is Journalism and two, I had it with Jonathan.
Entering the class, I immediately spot Jonathan and my face automatically brightens but looking next to him, I see the devil in disguise otherwise known as Michael. I take my seat to the right of Jonathan while Michael sits to left off him. The Professor walks in the class and everybody immediately quiets down.
Throughout the whole class, I could feel Michael's eyes staring at the side of my head. I just wanted to snap my head to the side and curse him out, but I couldn't because Jonathan was right next to him and I wasn't trying to get kicked out of class... again.
As soon as the professor dismissed us, Jonathan and I interlinked our hands and started walking out the class. Right beside the door I stopped Jonathan and kissed him, harder than usually. I knew Michael was watching but I didn't care. Deep down, a part of me knew that I didn't kiss Jonathan because I wanted to, I kissed him because I knew it would get a reaction out of Michael.
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Ahhh I hate the fact that Crystal is being like that already. But anyways thank you so much for reading my story and if your still read this remember your worth being the first choice❤️
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