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DID YOU FEEL IT TOO?

KEVIN

The morning was comfortably warm with the cool wind slightly blowing in my face. I am ready to start my college but maybe after a quick snack. Getting out of the room and closing the door after my deep-in-sleep roommate, I head towards the cafetaria. It was not crowded but it wasn't as empty as I would have liked.

Anyways, I got in and as I moved to the counter to make my order, some girl bumped her coffee on me and somehow turned the blame onto me. Like what? As much as I would have loved to give her an appropriate answer, something caught my eye. To be precise, someone caught my eye and I can't really expain it but something in me just clicked in place. I know it does not make much sense but it felt like I was waiting to meet that person my whole life even if I don't know that person. She was staring at me too. Yes, it's a she obviously!

Not wanting to make a scene centered around myself on the very first day of the college, I did not extend it and just curtly apologised and left the cafetaria...without any food. Not that much of a great start for college. I left the cafetaria but that girl's image did not leave my mind until life reminded me with the reality. Yeah, right. I am in no place to be thinking about girls or feelings because I need to get back what I lost. I don't know what I was even thinking...jeez! I cannot in any circumstance afford to get distracted not even for a moment.

This sudden burst of motivation got me through the day pretty quickly without any further incidents. The day ended with me at the library surrounded by all the coursebooks. The library was completely and utterly empty except a couple of others which gave me a hint of the excitement coursing through others to explore this new kind of freedom in a new city with new people. It hurt a bit but if goals are different, paths are going to be different. We can't follow the same path as everyone else and expect ourselves to become someone extraordinary.

Well, I gotta head to the mess soon so that I am not denied entry. I have stayed hungry for the most part of the day and I don't think I want to lengthen it any further. Is it possible to lose your way in your own college? I guess it isn't very uncommon if you are new. What kind of a maze is this! There is just no way out. Should I just jump out of a window of any classroom? That'll surely be a lot faster. Okay.

I should have thought of it sooner but no food made my brain go blank(that's one and the only excuse I can think of). The guards took me to be a burglar jumping out of a classroom and started chasing me. My life is just so exciting, isn't it? After a lot of explanations from myself and side-eyes from them and proving myself to be just a student who lost his way, they let me go without complaining to the authorities. I can't imagine what would have happened if they got involved. All of this just to reach my mess in time and because I wanted to recah it in time and jumped out of a class, it became the reason I became late.

Wow. Feeling down, I reached my room to find out my room is a trash can where the filth has covered any possible proof of human existence and in idst of the filth lies the homo sapien who is the source of all this filth. He greets me with a casual "Hey!" and continues to do whatever he is doing with his laptop. I really cannot get enough of this, can I ?

A couple of hours later, I am in the same room but it is not a trash can anymore. It is a perfectly habitable place with everything in their places. This result is the outcome of huge arguments back and forth, some hits and blows here and there and finally a peace treaty which allows my roommate to have his friends over anytime he wants in turn for him to keep the room clean. Apparently for him, it is no use to clean a room if you have no audience who takes out time of their pretty much non-existent schedule to apprciate it. It is fine by me as I don't plan on studying in my room and if I am not studying, they can't disturb me.

Although, it is not a very convenient thing to have strangers lurking in your personal space, it is way better than your personal space being equivalent to a heap of trash. Well, my roommate became my saviour and fed me from his treasure of quick snacks so he isn't all that bad. Just bearable.

MIA

The morning started with me tugging at the sheets while Sofie dragged me out of my bed so that I don't embarrass myself as a latecomer on the first day of my college. She is such a lifesaver. How come I became so lucky with roommate? (This is very much not like my usual luck but I definitely appreciate the change.)

Well, the notion of lucky roommate slightly stirred from its place a bit in the cafetaria. We were about to leave when Sofie tripped and she bumped her coffee on someone and blamed it on him. I was dumbfounded not by her choice to handle the situation(That would annoyed and angered me to my limit) but by the 'someone' she bumped into. I mean, well I don't know what I mean by it but it just felt I met someone I have been waiting for my entire life without even being aware.

Wait, is he looking at me? Am I being too obvious? Do I look like a creep? I probably should look away but for some reason, I don't want to break the eye contact. Out of nowhere,he just apologised to her and walked out. But didn't he just walk in? He should have at least got something to eat. Okay, why am I worrying if a stranger didn't get his food? Because I do feel responsible a bit for that.

That brings us back to Sofie who is busy on her phone. Seriously?

I casually ask, "Well, what was that? The guy was clearly not at fault here." She goes on justifying herself with the logic that if she didn't blame him, he would have blamed her and made a scene out of nothing. I cannot believe my ears but I stop myself from being a crazy maniac and explained that since it was her mistake, blaming her for it wouldn't be totally unfair and that if she had just apologised instead of blaming, there might have been no scene at all. I knew as soon as the words left my mouth that she did not take it in a positive way.

So, the next thing I see is her stamping out of the cafetaria. I feel like going after her and apologising but wait,I don't want a friendship where I can't even correct their wrong behaviour out of fear that they might snap. Okay, let's not think that far and give it some time to cool off for now.

The day passes without any more incidents and very smoothly, I did not sleep in my lectures and didn't even daydream. Yay! This was one productive day.

Returning back to my room, I didn't see Sofie. I have no idea where she is and her classes would have been long over by now. Should I be worried?

No, she left a note on my table to not contact her and she did not expect her roommate to be such a betrayer? What, I betrayed her? By correcting a very unacceptable behaviour?

Jeez, and I was wondering how I ended up so lucky to have an amazing roommate. Heh. I got your humour, life. Thanks but no thanks.