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Nathan sometimes watched his life play out like a movie. Everyone tended to ignore him, so he just observed and listened. Nathan preferred it that way, honestly. It meant that he had no obligations to anyone but himself, and could meander about his day, mostly undisturbed.

Until, that was, Sam showed up. Tall and lean, though clearly built well. His dark hair was cut close to the sides of his head, though, in total contradiction there was a mass of combed chaos atop it.

All of a sudden, Nathans' attention was somewhere far from the studies in front of him.

The first year of university had only began a few weeks ago, and there was an undoubtably steady flow of students still coming in late but... Something about Sams arrival felt different. As if it had woken Nathan up from the day-dream that was his day-to-day life.

Interesting.

Nathan hadn't bothered trying to get to know anyone. Not when so many people were loyal to their assorted high-school packs for the first stint. A bumpy transition that the music student chose to avoid.

Avoidance, however, was not something that Nathan thought would work on Sam. Not when his eyes, green, like a sun veined canopy, met with Nathans' across the room.

His heart stumbled.

His own speckled grey eyes faltered after hardly a moment, his gaze flicking down to the scarred pencil that he had spotted on the ground down the aisle, earlier. Nathan got so caught up thinking about the pencils ring of brutally engraved cuts, no doubt victim of a bored student with scissors, so that when the person now beside him politely cleared their throat for a first and second time, he did not hear it.

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