An Unusual Love

Chapter 4: Elizabeths POV

Elizabeth's POV

Hi, I'm Elizabeth. I'm from England, I grew up in Nottingham with my family. This month I'm moving to the states in a town called Hope Vale. I know nothing about this place, but I did my research about the College I'm heading to. I wasn't excited, but when I saw that Hope Vale School for Arts- the college I was going to, have a great Liberal arts degree and has a lot of opportunities for Creative Arts, that kind of got me excited.

My dad and I were moving there since his work got him promoted and got moved to Hopes Vale, I'm an only child if you're wondering, and my mom... She passed away when I was 5 years old. She died from cancer. 

"Elizabeth, we only got an hour left to get to the airport, hurry up, k?" my dad said from downstairs.

"I'm coming, just give me a minute dad.'" I replied while rushing to fix my hair.

"Clock is ticking, love." He said while walking out the door, packing the luggage to the car.

I ran downstairs with my luggage and handed it to my dad. "Here you go, dad."

"Lovely, now hurry and get in the car, we only got a couple of minutes." He said and continue putting the rest of the luggage in the back of the car.

I went inside the car and sat down. My dad got in the car.

"You ready, love?" My dad asked and started the engines.

I mean... I guess, but I'm gonna miss this place... With all the memories and fun I had... And mom's favourite place... "Yes, dad," I replied, "I'm ready." But I do want to make new fun memories... and live most of my life.

My dad started to drive. "Oh yeah, love, one of my friend's daughter, she's the same age as you. I asked them if she could show you around Hope Vale, is that okay?"

"Uhm... Yeah, I guess." I just replied while I look outside the window.

A few moments later we arrived, checked in and also got in the plane.

I took my book and my earphones and just enjoyed the flight...

A couple of hours later, we arrived at the airport and took a long drive to Hope Vale. Riding and seeing this unlikely new and unique view gives me shivers and goosebumps. I wonder if I'm excited or am I scared or nervous...

We arrived at the house, it was quite big... It's like you could fit  8 people inside it... Anyways, I took my luggage and started to explore the place. I took the room on the 2nd floor which has its bathroom and the area was quite big. I mean the other room is bigger and had a bigger bathroom but I decided to just let my dad take it. Hahaha. 

I started to unpack and got ready for bed since I was really tired. Also, the next day is my first day in college, so I needed to rest as much as I could.

After 10 hours of hibernation. I was quite surprised I adjusted so quickly and I didn't feel jet-lagged at all. I checked the time... OMG it's 8:40 am... I'm going to be late... I rushed to the bathroom, did my hair, just took some random clothes I had that was already ready, I'm wearing a light pink sweatshirt, black jeans and my plain white sneakers. I took my bag and asked my dad to drop me off. 

"What about breakfast?" Dad asked.

"I'll be fine, I'll take an apple to eat on the way," I replied, so my dad threw me an apple and I caught it. "thanks."

We both got in the car, it's already 9:00... In a few minutes, I arrived so I ran. When I got to the classroom I took a deep breath and went in and said, "Good morning, I'm sorry I'm late."

The professor answers, "It's okay, it's just been a few minutes-"

Then he got interrupted, I heard everyone whispering to each other, some just stared at me... and a lot of them said Woah... It was kind of uncomfortable... But I guess, it's because of my accent...

"Take a seat Ms Bakers." The professor said to stop and interrupt everyone.

I scanned the room to see a free seat, but the class was quite full, oh wait, there's a seat beside that girl. I headed there and asked her, "Hi, can I sit here?" She stayed quiet... and she was just staring at me, so I just said, "Hi?"

She felt a bit flustered, and she stuttered "Oh, yeah sure. No problem, mhm-"

I kind of thought it was cute so I just giggled and took a sit. She's really cute, to be honest.

"In this term, we're working in groups of two." The professor said.

I was panicking a bit... Everyone knows each other already, and I'm a new girl... I don't want to be left out.

"I don't trust you guys picking your partners, so, whoever seats on your right is your partner." The Professor said.

Phew- I felt relief. There were two tables in each column of the class and I'm sitting at the end of the row of the fourth column. The girl that I was sitting beside me looked at me. I'm kind of glad that I'm working with her, she seems nice. So then I introduced myself, "I'm Elizabeth. Let's work hard together." and smiled, "okay?"

"Yeah sure..." she said while she tried to smile back with a funny face.

She looked flustered and her face made me laugh a bit so I giggled. 

...

After class, I didn't know anyone as of yet. So I walked towards the exit well the door and stayed there a bit to check my phone if my dad texted me. Suddenly, someone came to me and said, "Hi, I'm Lily, I just wanted to ask if you wanna come and eat with us?"

I was just surprised and said shyly, "Really?"

"Yeah. Don't be shy. We want you to come." Lily said.

Then someone else walked up to both of us. "Yeah, it'd be fun." He said and smiled.

Then the girl, the cute one haha... She slowly walked towards us and said, "Yeah."

I looked at her and I said, "Okay, sure." and I smiled at her.

"So should we get going?" She said while she looked away.

Lily then grabs my arm and her arm, "Let's go!"

"Wait what about me?" The guy said.

"Just follow us." Lily giggled.

The guy was left speechless and said, "Wow- just wow."

I giggled, this group of friends are really friendly... and funny too.