Moving In
Jake English arrived at SCC at 10:00 the next morning.This was too early for Jake. Especially because of the fact that he had no sleep last night either and the drive here was rather boring. The college student hoped that he grabbed everything he would need to start the year off. He never finished packing, at least not really. He just sort of shoved everything into boxes and hoped for the best. His room at home was trashed now because of it. Not to worry though, things are going to be alright.
After checking in and obtaining his keys from the front desk at the dorms, he headed up the stairs. They weren’t allowed to use the elevators because they didn’t work? That was ridiculous. That means he was going to have to haul everything upstairs himself. That was going to be tedious. Good thing that he didn’t take anything this first round up or else he would be royally screwed. He wanted to obtain the feel of the room and the exact size of it before he started hauling up boxes.
When he walked up to his room, holy shit five flights of stairs is god awful, it looked like someone was already completely moved into the other side. It was covered in various shades of dark blue, purple, and black. He wondered just what his roommate was like. It was pretty organized and on the bed sat a white stuffed animal. Was that a seahorse? He didn’t know and his roommate wasn’t around to ask. Oh well.
The size of the room was pretty decent and he started to plan what he wanted to do to his room in his head. The school already came with a closet, a dresser, a desk, and a bed. That helped a lot.
After a few hours of moving boxes, (Five flights of stairs is so long. Why would they torture students like this?!) Jake finally finished moving everything up the stairs. He hadn’t even begun to start unpacking yet. As soon as he moved to do so, his stomach growled. Well, it looked like he would have to go and get lunch first. He checked his watch. 1:30. Was the cafeteria even opened? Maybe it was opened all day because the students were moving in. There was only one way to find out.
Thank God he was right. By the time he had reached the cafeteria, he thought he was going to wither away because he was so hungry. His mind had been so preoccupied by the boxes and the stairs, so many stairs, that he hadn’t even noticed how famished he had become. Did he eat breakfast this morning? He couldn’t even remember. That was a million stairs ago. Is this what his life had come to? Stairs? He heard a small voice echo in his head, I warned you about the stairs, bro. I told you, dawg. Where the hell did that come from? He didn’t have the energy to think about it.
The cafeteria was pretty full of people. It looked like some of students had already made friends and were sitting together. He hadn’t made any, so he was just going to sit at a table by himself probably. After getting his food, hamburger and fries, he looked for a place to sit. He found an empty table and took a seat. He began to scarf down his food in an instant.
“Hello?”
Jake looked up and saw a woman standing before him. She was obviously a student. On the plumper side, but she was adorable anyhow. She had short black hair and gorgeous blue eyes. She was also holding a plate and pointed to the seat at the table.
“Do you mind if I sit with you?”
“Sure! Go ahead! Company is always a pleasure!”
The girl smiled and sat down. “My name is Jane. Jane Crocker.” Jake smiled and stuck out his hand. “Nice to meet you, Jane, I’m Jake English,” he said as she took his hand and shook it. They both ate in silence for a moment before Jane asked what he was here for. He told her he was on a theatre scholarship. Turns out she was too. Then they hit it off. They talked about all the things they ended up having in common, what they liked doing, what they expected from this year, the likes.
They talked and ate for about an hour. “Well, Jake,” the female started, “It has been lovely talking with you and I am going to be looking forward to working with you this semester.” Jake nodded in agreement. “I have to finish unpacking, so I will see you later.” With that, Jane left and Jake bid his farewells. After a moment, he realized he should probably get going too. He still had to unpack.
When he arrived at his dorm, there was still no roommate. Where could he even be? It was none of his business anyway. He turned to his side of the room and let out a deep sigh. Time to see what was in these boxes.
After what felt like eternity, Jake was finally done with unpacking. He had brought everything he needed and some extra things. He did better at blind packing than he thought. His side of the room were different shades of greens with dabbles of orange. There were also a lot of posters, though, he wasn’t able to bring them all, he still had a bunch of them. They almost covered his entire side of the room.
He glanced at his watch. It was about six. Wow. That took way longer than he had intended. He thought about going to the cafe and then just decided to microwave some ramen noodles. He didn’t want to face the stairs again. His body shuddered at the thought of going up and down all the stairs again. He would rather not face them. Ramen it was.
After his dinner, he realized how exhausted he was. He climbed those stairs...he couldn’t count. He lost count after ten. So many. It was about nine and his roommate still hadn’t come back. He couldn’t help but worry about the stranger.
As if a distress signal was pushed out for everyone to hear, a very interesting person wandered into the room. He had black hair and a streak of purple. Was he just trying to be unique? He was also dressed like your typical hipster.
They stood there for a moment, frozen and staring at each other. Finally the new person spoke. “What are you staring at?” Wow. What a great way to start the year off. Jake shook off his frozen expression. “Sorry. You just startled me.” He walked over and stuck out his hand. “Jake. Jake English.” The male stood there, staring at him as if he were an alien before slowly shaking his hand. “Eridan. Eridan Ampora.”
After awkward introductions and short conversation, Jake found out that Eridan was also a theatre student. At least they had something in common. But that also meant he was going to be spending a lot of time with Eridan. He hoped that they wouldn’t get in a fight. That would be a disaster. Besides theatre, he was in the office all day trying to figure out financial aid because something had gone askew and they had to fix it before it was too late. Then he went and ate out at some place with his friend, Feferi?. The conversation didn’t last long because both boys were tired and had a long day and tomorrow was the first day of classes. So, they bid their goodnights and went to bed.