Prologue
The sky was plagued with beautiful flurries of white and as the plane soared higher, it looked like it was riding on a street of clouds. How beautiful it was! And for a first time experience riding so high, it could go one of two ways - the most terrifying experience or the most gratifying.
It was sudden; the way the seat shook before the tires wonderfully felt coming out of the massive vehicle and the instant touchdown to the ground. It had my eyes snapping open from my dreamless dark sleep and my disoriented face took notice of the similarly tired faces that surrounded me. After what seemed like eternity, which was actually maybe fourteen or fifteen hours, I had arrived in the US.
The nerves of the previous weeks from orientation had settled after one week of coming to know my roommates who I believe I like with the right amount of acquaintanceship. But I wanted to be with them every time to get used to this new culture. Pennston University was intimidatingly predominantly white, and I got the chance to enter one of the best universities in the US by merit of the scholarship I was awarded. Now all I could do was hover under the intriguing wings my two roommates provided.
Nanette was a blond with bright blue eyes and I was happy to walk out with her because everyone was entranced by her beauty. She was tall and confident and people loved the energy she exuded and I particularly basked in her confidence. Raine complimented her well with her pale skin and unusually wild rustic brown eyes. They were beautifully large and radiated the bright energy of the sun. She found it easy to blend in with people. They made close to fifty friends in that first week and I only lingered behind because people approached me after they met them, maybe to avoid being rude. Nevertheless, I loved the new attention because I had never gotten it like this where I was from.
I found myself for the first time, doing something I was not used to. I was wildly dancing at parties in ridiculously short dresses that barely hid my body which I had cherished for years. I blamed that on how quickly I was intoxicated from the drink that Nanette had pushed towards me. I didn’t want to be the one that destroyed the fun that we were having and the smile she gave me gratified my senses as Raine’s shoulder-length, wavy, black hair swirled in my vision while she turned to dance in front of me. I had begun to fit in and these looked to be the best days and year I had in my life.
But deep down I felt uncomfortable.
Yet, I couldn’t stop myself from following them the next weekend nor the ones that followed.
My family’s calls every week would ground me to study away from the fun and reminded me of what was at stake if I did not perform academically well.
One weekend night when I had dressed in my very new black dress, in heels that my roommates had overly praised me for, I found myself in the football house where they were throwing a party after their victory for the last game they played. It was loud and it was rowdy with large and built college men dominating the environment. I was trying to make sense of the way when a body came crashing into my slightly slender one. My curls bounced on my head as I reeled back and a very masculine hand grabbed my waist to prevent what would have been the most embarrassing scene of my life.
My surroundings steadied after the strange hand let go of me, and I lifted my head to be met with the strongest set of jaws and the most distinct set of granite gray eyes.
“Thank you.” I stuttered out after a minute of containing myself and ripping my eyes from his entrancing face.
When my head searched to see if he had heard me over the ruckus, I noticed that his eyes were still on me and he was gazing at me as if he was in awe. Then he shook his head and smiled and the sound that came out of his mouth had my knees almost buckling. How did someone have such a smooth and buttery voice with a smile that put the rays of the sun to shame? But Ryan Keith did and I had failed to notice that he was the captain of the football team and their anchor.
“No, that was totally my fault.”
Like a funny coincidence we continued to bump into each other on the twenty-five thousand student populated campus of Pennston. We were going everywhere together, and he took care of me like a queen. I could tell the envious stares whenever I appeared in the same vicinity as Ryan.
I don’t know when it turned to our first date nor when I had accepted to be the girlfriend of one of the most popular and sweetest men on campus but here I was being hugged in his arms like the most precious treasure each day. In a month I had garnered that title of being Ryan’s girl and soon everyone wanted to know me.
Two weeks into our official relationship, I was seated in my dorm room with tissues all around me, a running nose and ruined mascara as tears flowed down my face. Raine had her arms around me trying her best to console me and Nanette spoke in a highly dissatisfied voice.
“Why the hell would he break up with you two weeks after you start dating?” Her angry voice carried waves of some kind of promised revenge for my sake and stupidly my heart warmed at the care. But I knew what was wrong and I couldn’t, didn’t want to let go of the best experience of my new life in college.
“I’m going out.” My hands hastily grabbed onto another face tissue and I roughly wiped myself, standing and leaving the two girls stunned. They thought I had left and that’s why I heard Raine.
“Serves her right! She was being all high and mighty.”
“Right, what did he see in her?” But I wanted to prove to my two roommates whom I still wanted to please that Ryan saw enough in me, which was why I ran all the way to Sloan dorm.
When he opened his door I gripped onto him and whispered, “I’m sorry, I was wrong. Please don’t leave me.”
“Babe, I know you didn’t know. You know I love you and want what’s best for you.” My cheeks broadened when I heard the pet name. He didn’t hate me!
I pulled back from clinging onto Ryan’s black shirt that smelled like him and smiled. “I won’t wear short clothes anymore.”
“Good! All you have to do is listen to me, babe.” And like that we had reconciled or so I thought.
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