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Warning- smoking, mentioning of throwing up/gagging
You aren't going back now.
It has already been a 6 hour drive, your favorite true crime podcast is blaring in your ear to keep you awake. Trost left nothing but bad memories that you want to forget about. You still remember the last day you showed your face to the people you told yourself you will never see again.
Stohess high school graduation.
You heard your name in the speakers, not looking around at the eyes you already know were all over your anxious figure. You sat up but didn't dare to look up. Walking over to the stage, your head slowly looked up at your professors. They were smiling, if only they know. As you made it on the stage, you snatched the diploma out of your professors hand. You didn't care if it was unprofessional. Brightful smiles for the years to come turned into straight faces. You could feel the silence, you know everyone was thinking the same thing. You didnt care though. Diploma now in your hand, you walked back down the aisle. You didn't return to your seat.
You walked right out of that graduation, a simple 'fuck you' to all the people you've grown up with.
That was the day, you truly left everybody behind and didn't look back.
Now here you are, still an hour away from the place you are forcing to call your new home. The drive was scenic. Stohess didn't have the best reputation, it wasnt known to be the best area to live in. Now you gazed upon suburban neighborhoods and clean looking shops.
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You parked your beat-up 2002 Toyota Camry into the assigned spot. After filling out all the paperwork and all with the campus, you finally made it to the Student Housing section of the university. Opening up the trunk, you grab your two suitcases and duffel bag.
"Shit, I didn't think this through." You thought, how the hell are you going to get this to your dorm in one visit.
With your doubts, you suck it up and put your duffel bag on top of one of the suitcases. As you make it to one of the doors, you forget that you have to grab a key to get yourself in. You turn your shoulder to reach for the purse that was on top of the other suitcase.
Thump.
You look back to see your other suitcase is dropped. You curse under your breath as you proceed to bend over to grab it.
"Damn you must be clumsy as hell!" You hear a male voice behind you, causing you to look over.
You see a tall guy with another standing right next to him. The taller one having slightly tanned skin and dirty blonde hair that is cut to be a mullet, a little grown out. The other is the polar opposite, he had a very short cut, it looked to be an outgrown mullet.
"Excuse me?" You say to the guy, your stubbornness taking it as an insult.
Great first impression y/n.
"Sorry I wasn't meaning it as an insult, I deadass just tripped over the sidewalk minutes ago." The shorter one says, his friend laughing at him. "I guess we just back bad luck today."
"Yeah that because you're high as he-"
"Shhh! She doesnt need to know that dude!" His gives his friend a defensive look, the interaction making you laugh. He looks back at you now flashing a big smile.
"Im Connie by the way, This loud ass right here is Jean."
"Y/n, sorry for the big scene. I forgot to pull out my key card and one thing just led to another."
"No worries, we have one right here. Saves you some time looking for one." Jean pulls out his out of his pocket.
Connie walks over to you, helping you with your luggage. "Let us help you with this, whats your dorm number?"
"it should be room 17-"
"174?" You swear his eyes light up as he spoke.
"Yeah how did you know that?"
"Well our best friend lives there, Her name is Sasha!" He looks over at Jean, who is now wearing the same look on his face. "Shes going to love her Jean!"
Jean chuckles at his friend enthusiasm, bending down next to you to help pick up your fallen luggage. "Here let me get your other suitcase, we can walk you up there."
You're surprised at how nice these guys are, boys from your hometown would just laugh at your face and walk away. You smile back at them, "Thank you guys it's been a long day, Id really appreciate it!"
The three of you make it in the building after Jean opens the door with his key card. All three of you make basic conversation in the elevator as you wait for it to get to level 3. Elevator doors opening, the three of you walk a bit before finally making it to your destination.
"Shit, could you hand me my purse. I probably need my key card now."
"Yeah of course-" Jean was cut off by the door abruptly opening.
"Oh my god! You're finally here! Mikasa, our roommate is here Now!'' You met with a girl with big and bright brown eyes. Her hair is messily tied up into a ponytail, wearing a basic grey tank top with baggy lounge shorts. Her eyes look over in Connie and Jeans direction.
"You guys too?!" She laughs. "Man Im bummed you guys met her before me!"
"What can I say Sasha, I just attract the ladies.'' He says as he gives you an over exaggerated wink, making you laugh.
"Now if I remember clearly Connie, didn't you come over to me?" Youre surprised teased, earning a laugh out of Jean and Sasha.
"I was gonna say, when have you ever pulled baddies Connie" Sasha adds to your teasing, the boys were right. You and Sasha are gonna get along just fine.
"Hey Im pulling left and right! See? Look at this chick that just matched with me on Tinder!" He pulls out his phone, clearly showing you guys a catfish account.
"Should we tell him?" Jean whispers to you.
"Mmmm lets keep his hopes up." You giggle back at Jean, making him flash a smile back at you.
Damn this guy is realllly hot.
"Alright baldy move out of the way." Sasha brings you out of your thoughts. "Let's not make Y/n stand outside of her dorm."
Connie, Jean and you come in. You take a look around. Theres some suitcases that are situated all around the dorm but you can see some decoration around the place. You look to your right to see a small kitchen with a couple plants placed on the counter with a sign reading 'Welcome!'. Looking in front of you, you see a small couch with a tv hanging on the wall across from it. There is a fluffy rug in the middle of it all along with a bean bag in the corner of the room. A led light luminates the living roomTheres a poster placed on the walls right on top of the couch, you take a closer look to see that it's a a Frank Ocean poster.
Now we are all definitely going to get along.
There is a hallway to your left where three doors are, most likely your rooms. Everything already feels comfortable, these girls really know how to make a place feel like home.
"Y/n Im so happy you are here!" Sasha says as she pulls you in for a big hug, catching you off guard but you hug her back. "Im Sasha by the way, I figured the boys already told you though."
"Yeah! Its nice to finally meet you though." You smile at her.
"Mikasa and I have been dying to meet you! We found your socials a bit ago, so if two random people followed you it was probably us!''
You have left your phone on dnd for months, so you didn't even see the notifications. You pull out your phone as everyone makes small conversation, realizing that you deleted Instagram a while ago to give it a break from the dms that flooded your phone. You decide to redownload it, why not?
This was a new life for you to live.
Potato.gxrll has started following you.
Mikasaackerman_ has started following you.
You follow them back right away.
"Mikasa! Quit unpacking for a bit! Shes here!" You hear Sasha call out. You put your phone back into your purse.
A girl with short black hair comes out of one of the rooms. She is wearing a black hoodie with some short black shorts showing off her toned legs.
"Wow." You think to yourself, Mikasa and Sasha were both beautiful.
"It's so nice to meet finally you!" She smiles at you. "You're so much prettier in person, I'm sure Sasha told you about our little social media stalking."
"Yeah she did!" You both laugh. "Look at you though, you're gorgeous! Both of you!''
"Here!" Sasha says. "Let's show you to your room! If you want Im done with packing, I can help you unpack a bit!"
"Hey what about us?" You can hear Connie in the corner of the room, already situated on the bean bag.
"Just put on some tv or whatever you guys do to distract yourselves!" She throw the remote, it landing on his chest.
"Ow what the hell Sash!" The two of you laugh as you carry your luggage to your room. It's situated in the very end of the hallway, a bed and desk being the only thing that occupy the space.
"So Y/n," You turn over to look at her as you start to open the suitcases. "Are you from here? I don't think i remember you for high school."
"Oh no Im not. Im all the way from Stohess" You say. "Shittiest place ever, it's not worth checking out."
"Noted." She laughs. "Damn thats far away. Well I cannot wait to show you around here! Theres so many cute places we can go! Do you drink coffee?"
"Yes actually, I used to work at a Starbucks back in Stohess, I've been addicted to it ever since."
"Perfect! Mikasa and me do a daily run to our Universities local one! Let's all have a cute girl date tomorrow and go there!"
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[Play: Novacane- Frank Ocean]
It takes Sasha and you an hour to unpack a majority of your stuff. The room is still a bit bland to your liking. You had a win sized bed in the corner of your room decorated with a beige fluffy blanket along with black and white polka dot covers. You put another pillow since you liked to have multiple, topped off with a Dino weighted plushy that you like to cuddle to sleep. Your desk now had a mini mirror with a light surrounding it along with your makeup bag and books. There was a led light that hid in the corner of your desk, luminating rays of purple with little stars that painted the top of your room. Clothes were still in your suitcase, a couple were already situated in your closet. You had a body mirror that was hung onto the wall. Sometime this week, maybe you should go shopping so you can decorate the walls a bit more.
The two of you go back to the living room to see that Mikasa has already joined Jean and Connie. Jean and Mikasa are watching an episode of South Park as Connie is still on the bean bag, eyes latched onto his phone, only coming up when you guys walk into the living room.
"Took you two long enough, I've been iching to smoke." Connie says.
"It's not my fault you guys decided to come the day we needed to unpack." Sasha rolls her eyes at him. "Oh i forgot to ask, y/n do you smoke? We don't have to if you don't want to."
"Don't even worry, I probably have the tolerance to out smoke anyone here." You joke.
Part of that joke was right. You spent a lot of your high school years smoking. It wasnt your choice at first, you were just surrounded by many bad crowds that smoked to not be reminded of the shitty town. You seem to have fallen into those track because it became a daily occurrence to meet them at the back of the school during one of the classes you ditched.
"Looks like I found my competition." You hear Connie say.
"Bitch you green out from one tiny hit." Jean says, Sasha and Mikasa laughing at his comment.
"Okay house rules, if you guys are gonna hit the bong then we have to do it on the balcony." Mikasa adds. "Let me go grab it from my room."
The five of you make your way to the balcony, no chairs are there yet so you all situate yourself on the floor. Jean starts grinding up the weed. Not much time goes by as you guys start to light it up.
"Who wants the first hit?" Jean says.
"Me!" Connie says at lightning speed.
"You fucking fein." Jean says under his breath as he passes the bong and lighter.
Connie begins to light the bowl, luminating his eyes. He takes one hit before he's coughing like a maniac. Everyone, including you, laughs at how much of a lightweight he is. He hands it to you next. You take your first hit smoothly, felling a bit of a burn in the back of your throat. It's been a bit since you smoked, you were more of a joint person. The motion goes on, taking one hit then passing it to the person next to them. Jean grinds up more if it was needed. You've taken about three hits now, well most of you have. Connie opted out after taking one hit.
The five of you finished your sesh, now returning to the living room. It didn't fully hit you until you were sprawled out on the bean bag, Jean sitting next to you in the same state.
"Bro." Connie says.
You look over at him, instantly giggling. He looks like he isn't even with us. You aren't the only one laughing, Sasha and Jean are too. Mikasa is on her phone.
"Connie how the hell are you in worse condition than us?" Jean says.
"I don't know man, I don't feel that good."
"Shit let me take you to the bathroom real quick man." Jean sighs, getting up to help Connie off the couch.
"Down the hallway second door Jean!" Sasha says as they walk away.
"Is he always like this?" You ask, giggling at your own question.
"Oh he's way worse." Mikasa joins in with your giggling.
"Just wait until we are all at one of Jeans frat parties, him crossed will probably be the funniest thing youll ever see." Sasha says
"Oh Jeans in a frat?'' You question.
"Yeah, he is pretty known around here, he was our schools best Quarterback. He decided to come here to pursue it!" Sasha says. "Y/n just wait until you see him play. He's seriously so fucking good, I wouldn't be surprised if he goes pro."
"Isn't there a welcoming game this Friday?" Mikasa says.
''Oh my god perfect! We can get the whole group to go as well!" Sasha exclaims. "Which reminds me.."
Sasha pulls out her phone, handing it to you.
"Put your number in my phone, Let me into your group chat!''
You smile at her as you start to put in your contact information, Mikasa also hands you her phone. "Dont forget about me too!''
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Y/n has been added into 'scoutgang'
Sasha- Guys this is Y/n, shes our roommate.
Mikasa- our new bsf too.
Mikasa- everyone says their name in the gc when they can
Unknown- This is Armin! Nice to meet you Y/n!
Unknown- Hi this is Historia!
Unknown- Annie
Unknown- Yo reiner!
Unknown- This is Jean. Connies is the one ending in 6536
Reiner- Damn he needs his boyfriend to tell her?
Jean sent a photo
The three of you are now on the couch in the group chat, seeing that Jean sent a 0.5 of Connie and him. Connies head is laying on the toilet as jean poses at the camera giving it a thumbs up. You all probably looked at it at the same time because you guys laugh so hard that Sasha snorts.
Numerous of people text their names in the group chat, leaving you with one unknown number.
"Who's this?" You show Sasha your phone.
"Oh thats Eren, he doesn't really text on here that much." Sasha says, Her eyes flickering at Mikasa who's already looking at her.
You put in the final contact, leaving this person as a mystery for now.
———
The three of you continue to sit on the couch, deciding to turn on more South Park to watch as you wait on Connie and Jean. You feel your eyes starting to flicker shut. A road trip, packing, and ending the night with Indica leaves you feeling sleepy.
"Alright Im pooped." You break the silence as you stand up from the couch. "I think im gonna go to bed."
"I think Im going to do the same." You see Mikasa sit up.
"Ill sit here and wait for Connie and Jean, goodnight you two!" Sasha says. "Oh!''
Mikasa and you turn around to look back at her.
"Don't forget! Set your alarm for around 9!" Sasha says. "We can get all cute tomorrow and go get some coffee around 10:30!"
"Sounds good!" You say as you go to unlock your phone to set your alarm.
The both of you continue to walk over to your bedroom, saying your goodnights. You can hear the sound of slight gagging coming from the bathroom, the closed door muffling most of the sound. The sounds of Jean reassuring him following along.You feel a little bad for connie now.
You walk over in the room to see the led is fully lit due to it being dark out. You change out of your clothes to throw on the first baggy t shirt from your suitcase, taking your pants off to sleep in your underwear. Still feeling the last of the high, you sink into your bed. You wrap yourself in your blanket as you grab your dino to sleep with for the night.
Your eyes slowly close as you're alone in your thoughts. You feel a sudden wave of happiness. It hasn't even been a full day and you feel as if the people surrounding you are saving you from a life you threw away. As you drift off into sleep, you cant help but feel excitement for the memories you're about to make.