Campus Missed Connections Romane & Geschichten

I said, my voice heavy with exhaustion. I lay down on her couch and sleep took me before I'd even heard her leave the room. The sound of my phone ringing yanked me from sleep not quite long enough later. It was my VoIP number, my backup number for all of my records. I answered it and frowned at the automated voice. Please contact the financial aid office immediately regarding your tuition balance.

And now… the entire world had seen her at her most vulnerable. She reached for her old phone, still switched off, in order to avoid getting tracked by the Davenport then. Her fingers hovered over the power button. She hesitated. Then pressed. It lit up slowly. Buzzed. The notifications started flooding in. 67 missed calls. 19 voicemails. Countless messages. She swallowed hard as she tapped through. Most were from unknown numbers. Some from old college friends she hadn’t spoken to in years. All of them, now, had a reason to text.

The morning after Carson's late-night call, I woke to sunlight streaming through the palace windows and the persistent chime of multiple incoming messages on my phone. Groggily, I reached for it, expecting to see a text from Carson. Instead, my screen was filled with notifications from the university's emergency alert system.

'You missed a call from Bun❤ (80)' 'You missed a call from Brother (53)' 'You missed a call from Mom (72)' 'You missed a call from Ryan (22)' 'You missed a call from Uncle Vincent (18)' 'You missed a call from Uncle James (12)' 'You missed a call from Madison (18)' 'You missed a call from Marcus (25)' My brows automatically furrowed. My head is still in a mess and now looking at my phone with so many missed calls added up. This is new, I got confused and worried at the same time. Something must've happened for them to call me like this.

The morning air was crisp, and the sunlight cast a golden hue on the campus. She looked around, taking in the familiar sights as she made her way towards the lecture hall. As she walked, her phone buzzed, indicating a new message. She fished it out of her pocket and saw a notification from her friend, Sarah. Hey, Chelsea! Are you on campus yet? Chelsea smiled and quickly typed a reply. Hey, Sarah! Just got here. Heading towards the lecture hall. See you soon! With her message sent, Chelsea glanced up and noticed a fellow student approaching her. It was Mark, a classmate she had worked on a group project with last semester.

She stroked the pillow sadly because she already missed him. She suddenly got an incoming message on her cell phone, then she took it on the bedside table to her left. Alice sent her a message. She asked where she was and why she didn’t go to campus. She immediately checked the time, and it was past 12 noon. “Oh, my God! I forget to campus,” she said and sighed. She then checked her cell phone. Alice has called her many times and sent her lots of messages. She didn't hear it because she put the phone on silent mode.

A single text message pushed through. “Missed you at the crosswalk. See you on the ice.”

The kind Matthias took when he was moving from one mode into another. "Are you still on campus?" he said. "In the car park." "Stay there. Don't go back to the office." His voice was even. "I'll call Dante." "Already?" "Marcus has been a visible connection point between you and the information we've been building. If someone moved on him they moved on him because of that visibility." He paused. "Stay in the car. I'll call you back." He hung up. I sat in the car and looked at the humanities building through the windscreen. At the ordinary Monday morning campus moving around it. Students with bags and coffee cups and the slightly unfocused energy of people who hadn't fully arrived at the week y

… Mia rode back to campus in Antonio's car. Throughout her afternoon study session, she found it difficult to focus, with Timothy's actions weighing heavily on her mind. As Mia prepared to pack up and head home for dinner, she received a call from Jeremy. "Hello, is everything alright?" she answered. "Hey Mia, are you at the campus right now?" "Yes, I'm in the study hall." "Be careful. Ramona is heading to the university to look for you. I made a mistake by mentioning our lunch in the group chat.