Celina

I walk to the airport with my two small suitcases after my dad dropped me off here like you’re taking out the trash for the garbage truck to come to take it. He didn’t even wait for me to check in to leave. And if that was the least of it. It was even harder that he didn’t even want to go to the University with me. After those hours alone on the plane, I arrive at the Utah airport. I stop a cab to take me to the University, with my bag pressed against me in my arms. Nervously I wait for the driver to drop me off and I step inside the grounds of the campus. On the large grounds of the campus, I am looking for the Shoreline Ridge building where my apartment is for the few years I will be studying here. Then when I look up and see the big sign that says Shoreline ridge, I nervously walk in until I see my apartment door in front of me. “26,” is written on the door, where I knock with my heart beating in my throat and a nauseous feeling that won’t go away. The door opens and I see my new roommate standing there. Wow, she’s beautiful!” I think as I look at her long blonde hair that has been put up in a high ponytail. She’s wearing a lot of makeup around her eyes, which means guys are obviously noticing her, which makes me even more nervous. Not only does that make me nervous, but also that she has almost nothing on outside of a crop top and hot pants. “Hey, I’m Joy. Welcome!” The girl said excitedly to see me, which made me feel directly at home. “Hey, Joy, my name is Celina.” When I take a better look at her I immediately feel myself very slouchy in my big sweater and the blue jeans that I always wear. I am also wearing a pair of comfortable sneakers underneath it that had been on their best time already. She looked at me but didn’t say anything mean about it. She just shows me the room as I step inside and start unpacking my things. Not much later, I’m sitting at my desk searching on the internet, where I can find all my classes and print out a schedule for the coming week. When I’m done, I head to the kitchen to see if there’s anything to eat. First, I ask Joy if I can get something from the kitchen. Even though I’ll be buying new stuff later to replenish it. “Yes, don’t worry, take all you need. My dad pays someone to store it for me here, but it’s always too much for me, alone.” But if her father pays for everything, “Why do you need a roommate?” She answered me directly, without judging me staring “I’m not a single person. I like people around me and when I saw your pictures on social media, I wanted you to come live with me.” I get her, I don’t want to be alone either.

We walk to our first class together the next day. where she took off the other way and I walked toward the building in front of me, but I fell to the ground when I collided with something hard. Oh no, when I looked at the person I collided with I saw the most handsome boy with beautiful green eyes. He smiles at me and gives me a hand to help me up and before I could say I was sorry he took off. He didn’t even give his name. I can only see him in my imagination. With his brown short hair and those staring green eyes. Come on Celina, you don’t have time for this, you have to make something of yourself I said to myself when I stepped into the building. When I finally step into the classroom, I am the last one to enter. Everyone is looking at me. The teacher looks at me with annoyance and points to an empty chair. I sit down next to a boy with black hair and a piercing through his lip. Paying no attention to him, I continue listening to the teacher. When I feel him looking at me and when I look back he handed me his notes. “I’m Brody and you are?” He asked me with a bright white smile and another steel piercing in his tongue. “Celina,” I said as I take a closer look at him. He was not bad looking at all. All didn’t he make me as light-headed as the boy outside did. “Nice to meet you, Celina.” Those were the last words he said. Before the bell rings and we all walk out of the classroom. For the rest of the day, we stepped together around the campus. He was a completely different boy than I had thought at first. He looks like a real badass, but I was wrong. He is really sweet I like him around me. We talk all the way to our dorm. We walked together to the building where we both said goodbye and go to our apartment he is going left and I am going right. I turn my key in the lock where I hear Joy talking to someone. I step inside and see a girl standing by her in the kitchen. When she saw me, she immediately introduced her friend to me, “hey Celina, this is a good friend of mine, Rain.” I look closer to the girl who is standing next to Joy with the most beautiful black dark curly hair. “Hello, Rain,” I tell her before I take a glimpse and walk to my room where I go straight inside. I am working on my assignments for this week. When I have just finished my work I hear Joy yell that she is going out with Rain. On Monday night? I think as I continue working on my laptop. Later when I think they’ve already left. Joy suddenly stands in my doorway. “Are you coming with us?” She asks me enthusiastically. I have absolutely nothing to wear I fuss before I give an answer. I didn’t want to be in zombie mode when I had tomorrow my first full day of school. Not like to get to all these parties, all at once. “No, I’m staying here,” I said to her as she came into my room and started to look into my closet. “Come on, Celina! You’re young, you have to do it now,” said Rain who had entered my room also and talked me into going to this party with them. “I have nothing to wear,” I admit, with my gaze still on the laptop in front of me. Joy pulls me from the chair and pulls me by my arm into her room, where I find her closet full of beautiful clothes. “I can’t take a dress from you Joy, they all look so expensive.” She grabs a short black dress with narrow straps from the closet and holds it out to me. I can still see the price tag on the dress of up to $500! Who gives that much money for a dress? I want to turn it down, but she was already pulling on my shirt to take it off. I do as she asks and take off my clothes and put on the dress. Rain and Joy whistle at me and I stand there all shy with a blush on my cheeks. The beautiful dress fits my body perfectly. Only my breast almost pops out. Joy doesn’t have breasts as big as mine, but for tonight it is perfect. She grabbed a pair of shoes from the closet and put them on my feet because we happened to have the same size feet. I sit on her bed first because they are higher than I am used to, but when I try to walk on them, I just barely manage but will do it for tonight. “We don’t have to go that far. It’s only a few apartments away from ours.” Is the party here in the building, isn’t that a little small? Ok, they are very big apartments but for a party not that big.

We walk to the door of the apartment where there are already a lot of people standing in front of the door. We walk inside which makes me see that this apartment is three times bigger than ours. There are already more than fifty people, and it is very crowded. Rain comes out of the kitchen with three beers for us. This is my first time drinking beer as I take a sip and I almost spit it out. It’s disgusting. Rain and Joy laugh at my reaction to the beer. “Your first time,” Joy asks me. “Yeah.” I notice that there are a lot of guys standing behind Joy watching her, in her green sparkly dress just covering her buttocks. She ignored them all and danced with us. I look at Rain who is dancing like a dancer as I look at the beautiful skin that she got from her African-American roots. She looks so beautiful with her smooth facial features and her beautiful color of skin which looked like creamy caramel, sprayed with body glitter. With a beautiful blue jumpsuit that shows off all her curves, she made the room, as if she owned it. Not only that but she and Joy are so beautiful together that they get a lot of boy attention. Me, I’m just a boring girl with blonde hair that is so straight that any curl I want to put in my hair falls out in a second. I have solid blue eyes and a skinny body with breasts that are way too big for my stature. What I always hide from view, I am too ashamed of my skinny body and my big breasts. By the time I had two beers and was feeling a little bolder I was already dancing with Rain and Joy in the crowd that had formed in the middle of the room. When I feel someone tap my shoulder, I turn around and see Brody standing in front of me in his black leather jacket and ripped black pants. I smile at him a kiss a little too close to his mouth. Which I would never have dared to do if I hadn’t already had a few drinks. Brody had already drunk so much that he didn’t even notice the kiss. He smiles at me and I introduce my friends to him. “This is Joy and Rain. And this is Brody girls.” They looked almost with their open mouths to him. Joy looked so shy asudden and smiles at him with her cheeks flushed red from blushing. She says hello to him quietly before going to grab a beer. “Where did you find him, Celina? He’s hot.” Both girls ask me when he is gone. “In the classroom. We sat next to each other,” I explained with a laugh from too much drinking. “You lucky bastard,” Joy said as she took another look at him taking off to the kitchen. I follow her gaze but I was not like her interested in him that way, but I’ll let them know that later, they’re also too drunk to understand anything I’m saying. I see the boy I bumped into that day standing in a group of boys. Joy sees whom I’m looking at. “No, don’t tell me that Hayden has already stolen your heart?” Asks Joy looking at me. “I bumped into him. He didn’t say anything to me,” I explain to her, where I knew him from. I didn’t even know his name until now. “It’s better that way. Believe me, he had broken a lot of hearts in the past years,” Rain warned me for him. As the night wears on, I get drunker and drunker. I feel someone’s hands on my hips and when I turn I stare directly into Hayden’s eyes with his arms still around me. “You’re beautiful, what’s your name?” He asks me by whispering in my ear. As if we were the only two people at the party. That’s how it felt to me. Before I can say anything, he goes to get a quick drink. Then the beat start going from another song I liked a lot. All did that green intensive eyes still lingering in my head. And then that body of his is perfectly shaped in that expensive-looking shirt of his and as my gaze is going back to the kitchen I could also see his tight pants, which let him show off his legs very well. He is definitely a treat for the eyes, but if I can hear from the others, his character is not at all as stunning as his looks. No Celina, you’re not here for the boys, you’re here for college! I shout inside my head to myself as I turned my head away from his body that is striding through the people back to me, all do I have to be strong to not let this ruin everything.