Floating

Chapter 3

So I just stand there staring. I look around to get my bearings and get a rough plan.

I try to remember what Wheein had said to me on the bus. "At the front of the entrance."

Yeah, but where's the main entrance?

This campus is just incredibly huge. I tried to get some information on the website before but clearly that didn't help me anymore. Everywhere are confused students looking for their rooms and running around the campus with their heavy luggage. Luckily we don't have any classes today, because otherwise I think I would have been just as stressed.

I walk a bit towards the big building. I even follow a smaller group of students and hope they would go exactly where I wanted to go. But without success I land at a coffee shop and my bag got heavier with every second. Today the sun is still shining, with not even one cloud in the sky. I watch over to the coffee shop again and look around. Far and wide there is only a park to see. And me with my too big luggage.

Thank you mom

So I take out my cell phone and try to help me with google maps. All of a sudden two guys ran towards me. They are maybe a year older than me but a lot taller than me. So I look at them confused when one of them approaches me.

"Hey, may we help you?" I turn around once to make sure they are really talking to me.

The left one has sweet cheeks and a big friendly smile. A little different from Wheein's, but just as charming. He, on the other hand, has a longer face which made his lips fuller. The right one hasa rather round face and has a calm aura. But he looks a little tired and disinterested. You could see that it was not his idea to talk to me.

"Um... well, I think I'm lost. But I will find my way. I'll find it. Somehow."

"There you go. I told you she didn't need our help," says the boy who was a little uninteresting, looking at his friend.

As if the more charming one pushes him aside.

"Don't listen to him, he's not usually like this. He only knows that his studies will start again soon, that makes him nervous" and he squeezes his buddy's shoulder.

"Oh okay" I say embarrassed and laugh nervously.

"I am Hoseok and the tired boy next to me is Yoongi" and nudge Yoongi.

He in turn stepes one step closer, gropes his hair and says in a low voice:" Sorry about earlier. That wasn't fair. But I didn't get enough sleep" and he smiles at me nervously, looking like when I tried to give Wheein a charming smile.

"It's no problem. I didn't get any more sleep on my flight over here. Oh and I'm Yves but you can just call me Ywi" I say reassuringly and then I realize that I am getting really tired, even from my little sleep on the bus earlier.

"Nice to meet you... Ywi. So where are you from, if I may ask?" Hoseok aks friendly.

"I am from France, from the little town of Nancy. It's not far from Paris. You are from here?"            I try to explain to him and to carry on the small talk a bit further.

"Oh, I would love to be in Paris too, maybe we could go there next semester on holiday?". We all three have to laugh at the same time.

"But yes we are from Seoul. We've never been anywhere else," Yoongi says in a somewhat lively voice to show me that he's actually quite nice.

"Sure, if we get along as well as we do now," I laugh.

Hoeok charmingly overplayes this by taking me around his shoulder, walking in the opposite direction from the coffee shop.