*Katie’s POV*

“Hey I’m Katie.” I said as I stepped into my dorm room. The room was tiny with little space to walk around and be comfortable. A girl who looked like she would kill me if I said the wrong thing was putting on black lipstick in front of a partially broken mirror. “Tori.” was all she said, not even taking a second to glance at me. At first I tried making small talk with her, but I gave up after 20 minutes of one word answers. Tori was definitely goth. Not that I had a problem with that, I just didn’t prefer it. Her side of the room consisted of scary posters, dark lightning, and black makeup. While mine was filled with pink and purple pillows and posters of hot guys. I admit, I still acted like a little girl.

Tori had gone out to hang with her fellow goth friends while I stayed in. She didn’t even introduce me to them when they showed up to get her. Sitting in bed surfing the internet got pretty boring after a while. I hadn’t made any friends yet, but most of all, I wanted to see Beau. I had almost given up on Beau Bennett by now. I called him about a week ago and still no reply. It sucked just waiting. He played me. I just needed to fully understand that he did that. I wanted him to call me and say “That’s great Katie! You can come to all my games and move in with me and we can finally be happy together!” But in the back of my mind, I knew it wouldn’t happen. The fame has probably already to his head…or maybe he was just an asshole straight from the beginning. If I thought about it too long, I would start to work myself up over it. Calm down Katie. He was just a fling, a hookup, a fuck buddy, I thought to myself multiple times. It was sad, but I had to face the facts. It was college! I needed to live like it!

I decided to call Annabella to make me feel better. I wouldn’t have expected her to answer, because I knew her life with college and everything was busy too. “Bella! How are you!?” I yelled into the phone after she picked up on the third ring. “I’m good Katie, what about you?” “I’m excited. I haven’t really met anyone yet, but ya know…you sound kinda sleepy.” I said as I readjusted myself so I was sitting cross legged on my bed. “Yah I am. It’s been a busy day with packing and everything. I’m ready to go to bed soon.” Annabella yawned into the phone making it obvious she didn’t want to talk long. “Don’t worry; I won’t bug you for that much longer, I just wanted to apologize that I couldn’t be there to help you pack.” “It’s fine Kate. I got Matt and a couple of the other guys to help me.” I rubbed my eyes like she could see me pretending to be tired too. “Ok Bella, I’ll let you rest. Let’s talk again soon ok?” “Ok.” I hung up my phone and placed it on my nightstand. Even if we didn’t talk about anything, that girl made me feel better.
It had been a couple of weeks and college was going great for me so far. I met a few girls who I had multiple classes with that were pretty nice. There was Sarah, who was the outgoing one that came up to me and introduced herself. There was Olly, whose real name was Olivia, but she hated it so she made people call her Olly. There was Jess, who at first I didn’t like, because of her sarcasm, but I later realized it was her dry sense of humor. And then there was Margaret. Who for some reason, has basically told me everything she has done with a guy in her 18 years of life. I was shy around them. Annabella wouldn’t compare to these girls one bit, but they were all I had for the moment. I wasn’t even gonna try with Tori.

These girls were pretty fun though. They knew where all the hotspots in Pittsburgh were. I didn’t think there would be any ‘hotspots’ but I was later proven wrong. Us girls snuck into a 21 and over club on the outside of town. The club was so packed I couldn’t even lift my arm to my mouth to take a sip of my drink. I did have a little fun though. Except for the guys…who were complete pigs. I tried staying away from any male, but it was pretty hard. I ended up leaving the club before the rest of them and heading home. I knew how to party, but not like that.

About twice a week we would go out on the town and find something to do. I felt like we had done everything as we started going to the same places over again. After a while, Jess finally stated we should do something different. “Guys, don’t you think we should try something new. I mean this bar hopping, and going to club gig is getting pretty old.” she said as we stepped out of the club. “Not for me.” Olly, who was obviously drunk said, taking a sip of her beer. We ignored Olly and agreed with Jess. “Yah. I’m sick of being hung-over in the mornings.” Sarah said. None of us spoke for a second before Margaret chimed in again. “What about a hockey game? I heard the guys are pretty hot there.” “Do you even know anything about hockey Margaret?” Jess asked her in an annoyed tone. “No. I just know that they signed this knew guy named Beau or whatever, and I wouldn’t mind wakin’ up to him next to me in the morning.” The rest of the girls rolled their eyes. I hadn’t thought about Beau in a couple of weeks. I hadn’t told anymore here either that I knew him, or that I even slept with him. “Either way, Margaret has a good idea. We should go to a hockey game.” Sarah said. We all nodded our heads in agreement. Great, now I’m going to have to fake being sick, I thought as we started to walk back to Jess’s car.