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~~ALICIA~~

“What the hell do you think you are doing, sir?”, I screamed. He turned back and looked at me like I had just asked the stupidest question ever. “I’m going to shower since I can’t go back to bed and last I checked, you didn’t mention any rule concerning me being shirtless”, he threw back at me. There was a little bite to his words but I ignored it and said “Can you please change in the bathroom for now, until I get used to this? [if I ever get used to this] Please, thank you”. He huffed an incoherent response and waltzed into the bathroom with his unreasonably large towel sprawled on his broad shoulders. I arranged my things and was done settling in after an hour or so. Mr Huff Puff left the room about 30 minutes ago, allowing me to finally calm down. I immediately fished out my laptop from my cupboard and called Mum on Skype, I knew she would be at home at this time.

“Hi Muma, I am finally done settling in, I just wanted to let you know I missed you already”, I could feel a really bright stupid smile on my face as I got up from my bed to show her the room, that if someone entered the house right now, they would think I was about to go crazy, but I didn’t care because my mum was my all. “Hi sweetie, I’m so proud of you baby and I’m sure your dad would be too”, I heard her sniffle a little but in a second, she wiped her eyes and smiled at me then continued “So tell me, how is everything going, how is your roommate, did you tell her how pissed of you were at her bumping to you?”. At this point, my ability to speak left my body because I remembered that I never told my mum my supposed housemate was a boy, a hunk of a man in fact. I cleared my throat then speaking softly preparing for her to yell at me after, I said ‘’ Mum, my roommate isn’t a girl, it’s a boy, we were the last two people who were in search of accommodation”. I hadn’t even counted up to three when I heard her scream ‘’Rach, what do you mean you are living with a boy who you do not even know from Adam?’’. I just kept shut and shrugged, she knew I wasn’t going to say anymore so she let out a puff of annoyance and continued ‘’How is he? is it safe being alone with him? I need every detail you can get on him for me and his phone number too, in case of emergencies’’

I whispered a low ‘okay mum’ and she smiled and said she would call me later. I waved her bye and blew her a kiss. Getting up from bed, I changed out of my house clothes, took my keys and locked the doors before heading to the Dean’s office to get my class schedule and a map of this school, because it is too freaking huge. On getting there, I met the secretary, got all the information I needed to start classes tomorrow. I have always disliked resuming classes on days that aren’t Monday’s especially when I was in high school because I feel like my week isn’t complete, I know, I can already hear you ask yourself, what’s the difference between resuming on Monday or Wednesday? Looking at my class schedule, I see tomorrow is my free day, I guess Wednesday’s aren’t so bad after all, I glanced at the paper again to see some of the courses I will be doing this semester. Turns out I’m going to be doing two calculation courses as an Economics student. I quickly went back to the house and hopped into my bed and I was out like a light.