Welcome Back // Jerrie

1. Welcome Back.

Everything I believed about fate - or love for that matter - got destroyed two years ago. It's kind of poetic, I think. How one person can come into your life, make you fall in love and then leave you in the pouring rain and now, two years later, I still sit here on a Friday evening, hoping I'd hear a knock on my dorm room and she'd be back. Don't ask me how I'm doing, because I'm obviously still not fine.

"Pez? Are you sure you don't want to join us? Alex will be there too!", Jesy tried to convince me. They've been trying to convince me to join them on parties ever since she left me.

"So?", I asked in a dry tone. They were also trying to couple me up with Alex, the new biology student, by the way. It's not that I was desperate for love or that I was being sad 24/7. I just didn't want anyone but her. It was like she was living in my heart rent free.

And I didn't mind that.

"Pez, come on.", Jesy sighed.

But I shook my head. "I'm fine, don't worry. I have to study for my upcoming class anyway. It's starting tomorrow, remember?"

"Fine.", Jesy smiled, letting out a sigh. "I still can't believe you're taking History as an extra for your Teacher degree. Couldn't you have chosen something like, I don't know.. Art?"

"We both know I'd fail as an Art teacher.", I explained and laughed. "Besides, History is interesting and I kind of felt.. Drawn to it while I read the list of available classes."

"If it felt right it probably was fate. I can't wait to see your ass talk about the second world war to some American teenagers." I started laughing. I loved Jesy so much. She was my best friend since High School and I was so thankful to have her at the same University as me. I wasn't ready to say goodbye to her yet. - But my future was New York.

"You sure about New York?", Jesy ripped me out of my little dream bubble.

I nodded, feeling a wave of nostalgic making it's way to my heart. "Yes. It's my city, Jess. I've always felt at home there." Because of multiple reasons, I thought. "I will miss all of you and I will come visit you as often as I can, I promise."

"Come here.", Jesy whispered, putting her arms around me and hugging me tightly. We never liked talking about the future. Jesy was going to head to Japan after she was done with her Engineering degree. We were going to be miles apart. Knowing that already hurt my heart.

After Jesy left to go meet up with Alex, Zayn, Lauren and Camila at the bar, I started studying. Call me a nerd or whatever, but I loved being prepared. It always gave off a good first impression towards the professor and it didn't make you feel as lost in class as usual.

I decided to watch a movie in between and searched for something interesting on the TV. When I looked at the clock it was already 11:11pm, which is why I decided to put on the History channel and lay down in bed to get comfy before going to sleep.

The next morning I woke up around 7am. Not because I wanted to. My lecture was starting at 11am and normally it'd be enough to wake up around 9am. But my best friend Jesminda decided it'd be a good time to come back home at 7am, bursting through the door, drunk as hell, waking me up from my beauty sleep.

I love her, but in that moment I wanted to kill her.

My morning didn't go as planned at all. First I was getting interrupted in my sleep from Jesy and then I our coffee machine broke. Besides that, I actually managed to get late to class, because  I had to grab a coffee beforehand and the line was so long, I knew I was going to wait for hours. I hated coffee, but it was the only thing that kept me awake on a day like this.