The Sides To Us {Sanders Sides x OC}

Prologue

Author's POV

Year: 2015
Date: 10th November
Location: Ebott University (A/N I had to put an undertale reference there. I am sorry xD)

The soft and fluffy winter snow fell softy as the 19 year old leans on her windowsill and stares out of the window into the street that was a winter wonderland. The sky was dark and the stars twinkled as the clouds started to part like smoke leaving a room. Cars were scarce and very few people walked the streets.

The window was the arctic and the female was the equator upon touching the window. Her warm hand left pencil sized marks as she dragged it down the window and sighs. She had just finished her first year of being in University, studying Graphics and Animation. It was a three year course and she was regretting the decision.

Before she got into University, she was talking about it with her old friend Thomas Sanders. He was mostly against the idea of her going to University because it meant she had to be away for a long time. She wouldn't really be able to visit him due to campus rules and also because her University was two states away from Florida. She hated it. She hated that she couldn't talk to him.

The campus rules were strict. No phones when you are doing your course because you'll cheat, no talking to anyone outside the campus unless you are on break. You are not allowed to leave the campus without special permission from the University Council Board. To the students, it felt like a prison being in there.

People would ask why the hell people would even think about going to Ebott University. The simple answer was. "Financial Issues and low entry levels". Only people who were desperate would end up in this University. Unfortunately for Lilly, she ended up there.

From the outside the university looks innocent and promising. The website shows pictures of happy students and people with high grades. To the unsuspecting people, the university was paradise with promises that you'll have the best life you can. But as the saying goes "If it's too good to be true, it is". Lilly was suspicious of the University but since she had to get certain qualifications, she had to come to Ebott University.

Thomas had already warned her of the University, but since she was naive, she insisted and then joined. Already she regrets it. She had wished she listened to her best friend. But she knew that her friend hated her for it.

Lilly pulls away from sitting on the window and looks down at her phone that she managed to sneak into her dorm room. Lilly was very lucky that nobody else stays in her room at the moment. In every room only 5 people are able to stay in it, but since many people around 20 are anti-social, there are more people in 2 people dorm rooms and Lilly was one of them.

Upon turning on her phone, 160+ messages started to pour in like an avalanche in the arctic. Some notifications were from games and apps that said "You haven't played (game) in a while, you have some (Insert important item in game) to collect!" and "(App) needs updated, update it now?". When she clicked on the messages, she was blown away that most of them were from her sister, two friends, her sister and Thomas.

23 messages were from her friend Wolfie

20 messages were from her other friend Moon

56 were from her sister Akheira

And 80 messages from Thomas

Most messages were "are you okay? I am worried" and some messages explaining people's situations. The ones that caught Lilly's attention were the ones from Thomas that explained that since she hasn't been in contact in ages, he felt like they weren't as close as they use to so he has started talking to his other two old friends, Tayln and Joan.

When seeing those messages, tears pricked her eyes as guilt and dread washes over her body. Her hands shook and stifled sobs echoed through the room. When she tried to send a message a notifcation popped up saying "Thomas is unable to receive your message, try again later?" which only meant that either he blocked her or the University has blocked phone signals from reaching the complex.

Lilly drops her phone in annoyance and storms to the closest object and strikes the wall with her fist. The impact causes her to yank her hand back in pain as the frustration and stress of being in University started to get to her. Her thoughts were replaced with a heavy feeling, a numb feeling causing her to drop onto the floor with tears rolling down her cheek like rain on a window.

Many thoughts rushed through her head as she glances at the phone that now had a crack going across the screen. She  quickly looks away, not being able to bare the guilt of not being able too respond to her friends.

She felt like she wasn't going to be able to see them again, it's not like she's going to be able to talk to someone in the campus because all they'll say is "deal with it" or "it's your fault for coming here". The University didn't give a shit if someone was dealing with mental health issues, all they cared about was torturing they students into ruining the economy.

Lilly and many others were pissed off by this too. Tomorrow is when she and some others are going to try and get out of this place.

She had to get out.

Quick.