Learning Curve (Human Stevinel College AU)

Chp 3 (First Impressions)

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"UGH!" Steven grunted out of frustration, the annoying beeping from his alarm clock halted when the male slammed his hand onto the snooze button. He sighed as he sat up in his bed, the covers slowly fell from his body when he yawned and rubbed his eyes. Steven's brown eyes scanned the darkened room, and he realized that Jamie must've gotten a head start for the day since he wasn't even in the dorm room. Steven briefly glanced at his alarm clock, the bold red digital numbers read 8:00 am, which made his sigh out of exhaustion since he stayed up too late unpacking his belongings. "Just about fourty five minutes till my first class starts....I'll shower later, I'll just get dressed now and eat before I have to leave...." Steven thought to himself before he yawned again, his eye lids felt droopy but he reluctantly flung the covers off of his lower half, in which he stood up from his bed and headed to his dresser to get changed.

   Steven was now rushing to his first class, an English literature lecture class to be exact, which of course was going to be held in one of the many lecture halls. He was running a bit late since he briefly lost track of time while eating his breakfast, which consisted of a granola bar and an apple. Steven briefly looked at his schedule to make sure he was heading to the right lecture hall, and as his brown eyes scanned the black printed text on the piece of paper, his body accidentally collided with a figure that was rounding the corner. Steven then fell backwards, the backpack he was wearing collided with the hard linoleum ground, a few snaps and cracks were audible from within the sack, however, he was more concerned about who he bumped into. Steven blinked his eyes a couple times, his mind finally registered exactly who he bumped into, and there could only be one person that has messy fuchsia colored hair that had been tied up into two ponytails. Spinel growled from being bumped into, now she didn't completely fall down, but she did stumble to the side a bit, and she used her hand to stop herself from colliding into a wall. "Watch it!" Spinel hissed as she regained her stance, her pink colored orbs watching Steven as he scrambled to stand up again. "I-I'm sorry!" He quickly apologized as he stood up completely, he then darted off to his lecture class which left a pissed off, but bewildered Spinel behind him. Steven panted as he stumbled into the lecture hall, only a couple students looked up to ogle at the male before they returned to do whatever it was they were doing, he then took this opportunity to shyly slink to a seat that was on the opposite side of the large lecture hall. Luckily it seemed that the professor was running a little late, which made Steven sigh in relief as he ran his fingers through his curly brown hair, he then noticed someone sit next to him. Curly red hair that was styled to almost look like a mohawk, both of the earlobes were stretched a bit by the gauges in his ears,   and to be honest, Steven recognized the fellow student. "Lars?" He called the name, which made the fellow male student turn his head to look at him. "Oh Steven, I didn't recognize you, jeez you grew fast" Lars stated, ruffling the brown curly hair that belonged to Steven, "I didn't know you were joining this class, let alone this college". Steven chuckled after swatting Lars's hand away from his curly locks, "yeah, this is my first year, I didn't know you went here either"  he stated. "I transferred here, mom and dad wanted me closer to home for now. But hey, at least I'm somewhere familiar now" Lars shrugged, however it seemed the topic about his parents left him feeling a bit dejected.

   The professors monotone voice continued to drone on, and even though he was just introducing how this English Literature Lecture class works, both Lars and Steven were already feeling bored out of their minds. Steven had noticed Lars glancing behind him every now and then, but he brushed it off and continued to attempt to listen to the professor, well that was until he felt the edge of a piece of paper brush against the side of his pinky finger. His brown eyes glanced over to see Lars casually sliding a note to him, in which Steven grabbed gently to read what was written for him. " There's a girl staring at me, everytime I look at her, she's still looking at me." Was what Lars had written. Steven glanced at Lars in a perplexed manner, and then he wrote "what girl?" before sliding the note back to Lars. He waited patiently as he watched Lars read the note for a couple seconds before scribbling some more on the note, he then handed the note back to Steven. "On the other side of the room, one row behind us" is what Lars had written in response, and honestly he felt a bit creeped out. Steven squinted as he read the note, and then he turned his head to glance behind his seat, his brown colored orbs scanned the other end of the row behind him until they landed on a familiar figure. Spinels pink colored eyes locked with Stevens brown eyes for a couple seconds, she sneered at him before looking away out of embarrassment. She continued to hold her sneer before she glanced back at the male, and just in time to, for she sees him blush a little before turning his attention back to the professor. "I don't think she was looking at you, she looked away when I looked at her. I think she was staring at me" Steven scribbled onto the back of the note before passing it back to his fellow classmate, and once Lars had read the note, he had to stifle a laughter by making it look like he was coughing. Steven rolled his eyes before turning his attention back to the professor, who had to pause briefly due to Lars fake coughing, but now Steven could feel Spinels eyes staring right at him, and this left him a bit unsettled.

   After the English lecture was finally over, Steven desperately wanted to check out the library, and possibly check out a couple books he needed to read, or he'll need books that'll be necessary for his classes, probably both to be honest. The male stood in front of the double oak doors, he breathed in deeply as his hand intertwined with the door handle, and he then pulled the door wide open. Stevens brown eyes filled up with stars, various shelves filled with books, both old and new, filled the tremendously large room. Along with the books, there were also separate rooms mostly used for study groups, lounge chairs that are used to sit in so the patron can read a book or two, and computers for browsing the internet along with using them to help complete assignments. The librarian was reading her own book, however, she gave a kind smile to the curly brown haired male that returned the smile before he went to browse the shelves that held the fictional books. Stevens signature smile continued to spread across his face as his fingertips lightly grazed the spine of a certain book, he then pulled the book out of it's spot, the title read "unfamiliar familiar" which brought a wave of nostalgia to rush through his body and heart. He decided to check out the book, but before he did, he headed to the literature shelves in order to find the necessary English book he'd need until he can properly purchase a copy. As Steven scanned the bookshelves, his gaze soon landed on something peculiar, and that peculiar something was standing on the other side of the book shelf. Spinel was leaning up against a different bookshelf, her pink colored eyes were studying each detailed picture of some type of graphic novel, and this let Steven get a good look at the female. She was wearing a type of short black tank top that also resembled a hoodie with an upside down heart that was pink, cargo pants that seemed a bit to big for her since they seemed to almost slip down her waist, she was also wearing black combat boots that suited her, and her make up consisted of heavy eyeliner that went along with her rushed eyeshadow and mascara.