"Are you sure you have everything? I would hate for you to have to turn around and drive back here." Your mother walked back outside, another box in her hand. The box was labeled 'kitchen stuff' as she stuffed it in the backseat with the rest of the labeled boxes.
"I think so. If not, then I guess you'll just have to mail it to me." You gave her a goofy grin as she pulled you closer and gave a kiss on your hair.
You wrapped your arms around her as she did the same. "I'm excited for you, but I'm going to miss you so much. Who am I going to talk to?" You laughed as your mother fake cried.
"You have dad, dummy." You lightly pushed her away as the sound of a door closing behind you sounds.
"What about me?" You turned your head to see your dad walking outside with the last box. He quickly pushed it into the backseat and shut the door.
"Mom is saying you're boring."
Dad gasped as mom lightly hit your shoulder.
"Just not ready for my baby to leave the nest!"
"Let her live woman!"
You laughed as you gave them both a hug before climbing into your car. "Alright you two, I've got to go to make it before the housing office closes."
"Be safe baby. Call us if you need anything." Your dad waved as he wrapped an arm around his wife.
"Text me when you get there and get your key." You nodded to your mom as you put your car in reverse. Waving while you put the car in drive.
You honked your horn and waved out the window. "Bye! Love you guys!"
And then you were on the road. Finally, an independent adult. On the way to move into your college dorm a couple of hours away.
~ ~ ~
You noticed him maybe the second day of classes. He sat in the back with no book bag, no laptop, no notes. Just sat and listened.
He wore dark jeans with just a white t-shirt. Sometimes he had a jacket but usually just had on the t-shirt. He had thick eye brows and sideburns with short brown hair. Something you didn't notice until he stood up was that he was tall.
On the third day, you sat next to him and worked hard to type out your notes and writing them down as well. At the end of the class, you slid the papers over to him.
"I noticed you didn't have any paper, so I wrote down some notes. I typed out my own notes so you can have these!"
The guy had a confused look on his face but accepted them anyway with a thanks.
"I-"
"Ah sorry, I have a class right after this on the other side of campus. If you have any questions or if something is incorrect, let me know next time!" You waved and quickly ran out the room. Only ten minutes to walk nearly a mile across campus. You really needed a bike or something.
Your next class was boring, so you decided to submit some job applications to different places in the area. Hopefully one of them would accept you even though you can only work nights because of classes, but it is a college town so you may have a chance.
Your class schedule wasn't super busy. On Tuesdays and Thursdays, you had beginner astronomy at nine, world history at ten-thirty, a small break starting at eleven-fifty and then fantasy literature at one-thirty. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, you had finance at eleven-thirty and government at one-thirty. Pretty easy schedule for your first semester. You had decided to just get all of your general education classes done first while you still decide what major you want to pursue.
You walked out of the history building, stretching from the long and boring lecture. Fixing your backpack that was slung over your left shoulder, you walked towards the cafeteria/ your dorm as you weren't sure where you wanted to spend your small break.
On one hand, you wanted to go to the dorm and rest, but on the other, you wanted to try and make friends and the café seemed to be the best spot. You shrugged and decided to go to the café anyway.
Lucky thing you did because in front of you was the student from your astronomy class walking out of the science building. You waved at him as he walked towards you.
"Hi again!" You did a quick jog to catch up to him. "Sorry about running out like that earlier. I am still trying to get use to the campus and my professor is strict about attendance, so I had to run."
He waved his hand in front of him. "No worries. I appreciate you giving me the notes but why?"
A shade of red came across your face, "A-ah well! I know what it is like to come to class unprepared so I was just doing what I hope someone would have done for me! I got lucky this time because I had a notebook left from last year, so I don't have to worry about having to afford a notebook. Although I guess I don't need one since I can just type on my computer but you never know if it is charged- Ah sorry I'm rambling." Great. Now you've embarrassed yourself in front of your first potential friend.
"It's fine. Just wanted to thank you again. I owe you one." The guy started to walk down the side walk, inviting you to walk with.
"Well, when I get sick one day and miss class, I hope you'll have my back? Not too sure when I'll be able to afford the textbook for the class." You laughed as you walked beside him, partially having to walk in the grass as other students walked down the small sidewalk.
"Is this your first semester?" He looked down at you as you looked up.
"Yeah! How'd you know?"
"Let me see your computer real quick." He sat down at one of the benches as you pulled your bag in front of you to pull out your laptop and handed it to him. He opened it and gave it back to you to insert your password. Handing it back, you watched as he went onto the website where you turn in all of your online work. "Each professor has their syllabus up on their class page. If you go and actually read it, sometimes they'll either say if you need the textbook or give you a link to the online version or a PDF of it."
"Wow." You reached out to grab the laptop as the guy handed it back to you. "I feel dumb." You scrolled down the syllabus and saw that there was a free PDF download of the textbook.
He laughed, "The professor told us this in class on the first day. Were you paying attention?"
"Honestly? Probably not." You hadn't slept well the night before as it was the first time you slept so far away from home on your own. You didn't feel comfortable or safe. You spent most of the class scrolling on amazon looking at decorations to make your dorm feel more comfortable and homey.
"Well, at least you paid enough attention to do these notes. They are very well written."
"Ah! Thank you! I take a lot of pride in note taking. Wanna know my secret?" You whispered the last part of the sentence causing the student to let out a laugh and agree. "I type everything down. Everything the professor says. Then when they get off subject, I go back and bold the important parts and then write those down on paper. Because muscle memory and all that jazz."
He smiled and shook his head. "That sound like an awful way to take notes."
You gasped and threw a hand over your heart, "Is not! It works for me!"
"What happened if your computer dies? Or if the professor never gets off subject?"
"Then fuck it, we ball." You leaned back into the bench and crossed your arms.
"What?"
"Fuck it, we ball."
"What the hell are you saying."
"Dude."
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heheh first chapter. I write a draft of all of my chapters before I actually write the chapter (make sense?) so do y'all want me to just put the preview at the bottom of every chapter? let me know. Chapter will be longer than this but this is just an appetizer to the entree of chapters.
So, who is our mystery guy? Any guesses?
Also first creepypasta story, I'm not super knowledgable so this may seem weird and wrong so just lmk! I take constructive criticism.
Also also if anything is misspelled or grammar is wrong, please comment. I write these in a word document and then copy and paste it but I may have missed some errors.
Also also also, '~ ~ ~' means time skips. I am sure you figured it out but yeah.
Feb 18. 23