Take Off Those Rose-Tinted Glasses

Chapter 1

"Luz, not to break your little 14-year-old heart but"

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"Fanfiction is kinda, very weird."

Luz let out a huge gasp of disgust and betrayal through the other line. She started complaining and whining about how her big sister thinks her fanfictions are weird!

"Hey! Calm down, jesus. It's weird but do what you want I guess." Lucia chuckled at her little sister's reaction to her stance on Luz's little fanfictions she's currently been reading.

"That's what I thought!" Luz cheerfully exclaimed from the other line, while giggling happily.

"Anyways, tell me about Hecate's character development-" Lucia was immediately cut off by the sound of Eda, the 40-year-old con-woman she lives with and works for because she can't afford at least a small, shitty apartment near her campus. I mean, even the small, shitty apartments far away from campus are too expensive.

"Kiddo, it's 8 am. Maybe you should get the fuck outta here and go to campus." Eda groggily said as she sips her morning coffee while her black husky puppy, King, is standing right beside her.

Fuck.

"Luz, I'll call you later tonight, alright? Bye!" Lucia, unfortunately, had to immediately end her call. She's late to class. Again! She quickly grabs her green jacket, red beanie, and black ripped pants, frantically trying to wear them properly. A quick look in the mirror and some minor fixes for her hair that isn't hidden in her beanie here and there. She quickly grabs her worn-out black backpack, wears her shoes, grabs her longboard, then dashes out of her crummy apartment.

"Geez. That kid needs to set her alarms." Eda looked over at the front door and locked it. She looks around and sees the keys Lucia always forgets, hung on the wall.

"Ugh. I swear to God this kid would've been dead if I didn't let her live with me."

The breeze was enough to calm down her nerves in the meantime. School is normally just a 10-minute walk away, so she chose to bring her longboard this time to minimize those 10 minutes into, hopefully, just 5 minutes. Not gonna lie, Lucia is not a bad student. She's heavily determined to study her interests, especially since this is college now. Middle school up until high school was a living hell, seeing that you can't really pick and choose what you want to study. But this is college now. She can choose what she wants to learn about instead of wasting her life away on information she doesn't need or care about. Sadly, Lucia is just very disorganized and messy. So time schedules and routines aren't really her cup of tea.

Finally, I arrived at campus.

Lucia rushes into her first class, sweat still occasionally dripping from her forehead. Upon seeing her grumpy and old professor, she lets out a huff as the said professor looks at her menacingly.

Crap. Is it because I'm late again?

"Care to explain why you're late, again, Miss Noceda?"

Yep. It's because I'm late again.

"I..." Her grip tightens on the hem of her jacket while trying to think of a believable excuse on why she's been late for the 3rd time this week.

I woke up late? No. Too boring.

The goddamn dog peed on me as I was leaving? No, no. Too overused.

The fanfiction Luz was reading was actually interesting and I wanted to listen more?-

"Nevermind." The professor said sternly, now facing the whiteboard he has been writing on for, probably, the past few 20 minutes.