ADHIRA SHARMA

Today is my first day of university and I am very nervous and anxious at the very same time. Being a scholarship student from all the way to India to here in U.S, my anxiety and nervousness were at it's peak.

I got scholarship in CSE in one of the most prestigious university of U.S, basically my dream university, which is also dream of many.

Even though I am scholarship student, I come from rich family but not that rich family that my family can afford all my four years tution fees along with my living expenses of here in U.S. They also have the responsibilities of my 14 year old younger sister who is 6 years younger then me as I am 20 years old.

Back in India my father is head of hotel chains which comes under in the state my family lives and my mother is a chef.

I am standing in front of mirrior of my incampus dorm room trying to calm myself down.

I took a deep breath, closing my eyes and whispered to myself, "Calm down Adhira, everything will go great if you will stay in calm state of mind."

I slowly opened my eyes and the moment I looked at myself in the mirror my nevoursness came back kicking in making me sigh.

I again closed my eyes shut and taking a deep breath I repeated three words like mantra in my mind.

Calm. Composed. Confident.

After few minutes I showly opened my eyes and forced a calm smile trying to calm my mind and nerves while I continued chanting those three words in my mind.

Calm. Composed. Confident.

I grabbed my ID card from my bed's side table and wore it around my neck and I again tried to put a smile on my face but couldn't do it making me sigh in frustration.

I just gave up on trying to keep a forced smile on my face and looked at the two empty beds, on the corner of the other side the room and other in the middle making me wonder who will be my other two roommates. Will they be nice? Will they be my friends?

I just shook my head pushing my thoughts aside and grabbing my bag I slung it over my shoulder and walked outside my room, locking it before stuffing it inside my jeans pocket.

I walked towards the mathematics department building with nervousness, anxiety still lingering but now along with a little bit excitement for my first class of mathematics by Professor Jhon.

I entered the lecture hall and sat at the front row, relaxed slightly, seeing other students who passed me friendly smile making me smile back geniunly.

After the lecture I was walking down the hallway humming to myself, being fully relaxed cause the lecture went great, professor Jhon was also very friendly and chill professor and ofcourse with great teaching skills.

I was in my own world completely unaware of my surroundings, my earlier nervousness and anxiety flew out of the window.

I suddenly bumped into someone making me stumble back slightly, and I hissed softly rubbing my forehead.

I slowly looked up when I heard a cold, stonic, deep voice, his jaw clenched slightly. "Watch where you are going, Miss."

My black doe eyes meet with that unknown man's icy cold thunderous dark stormy grey ones behind his rimless rectangular frame glasses.

"Uhh, I am sorry." I apologized as my cheeks and neck slightly heated up from embarrassment. I mentally scolded myself for walking like an idiot lost in her own world.

I waited for some kind of reply like 'it's okay or something' but none came and he just walked past me, his expressions blank and distant, devoid of any emotions.

"Weird" I muttered underneath my breath looking at his fading back. He was wearing a simple black t-shirt, light brown pants, a slightly worn out sports shoes, a black simple bag slung over his shoulder, which looks slightly worn out too and a rimless rectangular frame preached over his nose.

He had natural tan bronzed skin, with sharp face features along with slight freckles under his eyes and nose. His black jet hair were perfectly and neately styled. He was not bulky nor too thin but he was tall making him appear almost perfect.

The most stricking thing about him were his thunderous, dark stormy grey eyes, which are most rare making them look more attractive and beautiful.

I just shook my head and shrugged off shuting down my thoughts about that unknown mysterious male student, making my towards the cafeteria to grab a coffee, again humming to myself.

Zane Russo

It was 5:00 a.m in the morning when I got back to my in campus boy's dorm room and I removed my slightly worn out sports shoes throwing them aside. The best part is that I have no roommates, so I have the whole room to myself.

With a tired sigh I laid down on my bed on my bed closing my eyes, rubbing my hands over my face and pushed my jet black hair back which were covering my forehead messily.

I just got back from my part-time job. At night I do night-shift part time job and in the morning I attend university, I barely get any sleep in the weekdays except weekends cause on weekends there is no university and I have to just do part time.

But I don't mind working these much and sacrificing my sleep, cause my parents taught me from my childhood to do hardwork because without hardwork you don't get anything in life.

I am 2nd year top CSE student, actually a scholarship student from Italy. I have got these scholarship in the most prestigious university of U.S due to my own hardwork and intelligence.

My parents are not that finiancially rich to keep up with my expenses in the expensive country like U.S, so I do part time jobs so I don't burden them in any ways even they have told me multiple times that I don't have to do any part times and they can manage but I told them no strictly, cause I know how hard it is to manage.

Back in Italy my mother works as a literature professor in a university and my father works as software engineer in a reputed company but still that income is not enough cause they have to also responsibilities of my 16 year old younger brother who is 5 years younger then me as I am 21 year old.

I sighed and stood up walking inside the bathroom to take shower and then get ready for university.

After taking shower I wore my simple black t-shirt, light brown pants and did my black jet hair neatly. I looked at myself in the mirror and nodded my head to myself, satisfied with my appearance. I then wore my rimless rectangular glasses and wore my sports-shoes.

Grabbing my black slightly worn out bag I walked outside my dorm room but immediately ran back inside to grab my student Id card which was laying on my study table.

After wearing my student ID card around my neck I walked outside my dorm room, locking it and stuffed the key inside my pant's pocket.

I had first lecture of Data structure and Algorithms of Madam professor Lee. After the lecture was over I was walking in the hallway of mathematics department building heading towards the lecture hall cause I had lecture of discrete mathematics.

I suddenly bumped into a girl who was humming to herself, lost in her own thoughts and I saw her stumbling back slightly as she rubbed her forehead, her nerdy glasses slipping down her nose. She is surely fresher cause I have never saw her before on the campus.

'What a clumsy idiot.' I thought with my jaw clenched slightly.

"Watch where you are going, Miss." I told her coldly, with my expressions blank and stonic as usual, devoid of any emotions.

Hearing my voice she looked up at me, making my icy cold thunderous dark stormy grey ones behind my rimless rectangular frame glasses meet her black doe eyes behind her nerdy glasses making them look slightly bigger then they were.

She had slightly fair but mostly naturally tan bronzed skin, with strangely innocent features and lotus shaped eyes. She was slightly short maybe 5'4 or something making her appear curvier even though she was wearing baggy tshirt.

She was wearing baby blue baggy tshirt, wide leg black jeans, her shoulder length black curly hair open, her nerdy glasses which was slipped down due to her bumping with me and she was wearing white cross. She was also wearing gold star charm bracelet and dimond loop earrings which suspicionly looked real gold and diamond.

I cursed myself in my head in Italian for even noticing those things about her, a stranger.

My chain of thoughths broke when I heard her whispering an apology and I saw her cheeks and neck slightly heating up from embarrassment.

I just walked past her without even acknowledging her or her apology.

'Weird girl.' I muttered underneath my breath shaking my head.

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