A Change of Heart

Chapter 3: First Class

I was about to take a step when someone stepped on my shoe.
"You're blocking the way."
I muttered "Sorry" and didn't bother to look at the person when the bell suddenly rang.

I ran into the corridor and followed the signs going to the direction of the Dean's office. Luckily I didn't have a hard time locating it.

I knocked on the door and a lady probably on her late 40's opened it.

"You must be Ms. Smith."
I nodded and she opened the door even wider and gestured me to take a seat.
The office was spacious unlike in the one on my past school. There's no stacks of papers scattered on the floor.

"Welcome to Crimson University. I'm Dorothy Evans, Dean's Secretary and in charge of students' period schedule." She handed me a couple of printouts that stated Period Schedule.
"The first semester is about General Subjects. Here in Crimson, we give our students some time to decide on what course you really wanted because we know that you tend to shift to other courses after one semester. So there's no need for you to worry about even if you enrolled late but you'll be sitting in some subjects that isn't in just one department."

After an hour of orientation, this and that wherein I wasn't really paying attention, she finally dismissed me and appointed someone to walk me to my 2nd period since it's already late to attend on my 1st.

"Hi, I'm Freya. I'll send you to Mr. William Ryan, your 2nd professor. He's a Psychology teacher, he's a great help for students on deciding what course to take."

We are already outside the room and Freya knocked on the door.

"Good morning Mr. Ryan. I'm with the bew student."
"Thank you Freya. Come in Miss and introduce yourself."
I walked inside the room and stopped beside Prof. Ryan. I scanned the room and yes! All eyes are on me. Some are kind of nice but most are in confused looks. I can hear some murmurs. Prof. Ryan hushed them and as soon as it quite down, I spoke.

"Good morning. I'm Shana Smith. Nice to meet you all." I smiled awkwardly.
"Thank you Ms. Smith. There's an empty seat beside Mr. Greyson you can sit there."

I have a confused look, there's 3 empty seats. One is beside a guy whose I think is sleeping already at this early morning. One is beside a girl whose smiling brightly at me. Someone raised his hand and I took that as a cue the he is Mr. Greyson.

"Hi I'm Max Greyson. How are ya, gal?" He smiled tapping his hand while holding a pink ballpen with a furry stuff.
I got an instinct about this guy or should I say, girl.
"Um hi? Shana. ." Extending my hand to him and he slapped it playfully and said,
"Oh quit the formality." Instead, he gave me a friendly cheek to cheek. From then on I confirmed he was gay.

I feel excited already knowing that I already have a friend and he's gay. I suddenly missed my gay friend whom I always spend most of the holidays with. Most of my holidays were with his family since my Mom is in Europe but when he took college overseas I was not able to get in touch with him.