Chapter 2
"We'd make good friends and meet cute boys."
"I'm engaged, Keisha." I cut in.
"Not married. You can still find your soulmate, cuz Mr Vodka the grumpy man isn't for you."
I frowned.
"Don't call him that. I love him Kiki, and there's nothing that can change that."
"For the moment."
I rolled my eyes. Keisha didn't appreciate Josh one bit and neither did he appreciate her. He said she would spoil me. I didn't see how.
"Sha, I want your good," she went on, "And Josh Nelson isn't for you. You need a man who'll treat you right."
"Josh treats me right."
she scoffed
"Puhleeze. Spare that shit for me, will ya?"
"Kiki, let's close the topic. We just got into the plane. I don't want an argument."
"Okay girl, but I'm still not changing my mind".
Keisha was one tough cookie. It hurt me to know what people thought of Josh. I'd lost most friends because of Josh in highschool. The only one who stood firm with me was Keisha. The others didn't want to hang out with the girl betrothed to a jealous and violent drunkard. All this because of the way Josh spoke to them when they came visiting. Especially the boys. Even my parents behaved like snobs with my friends. They hated my friendship with Keisha, but they couldn't separate us.
My family wasn't actually the best. That's why I loved Keisha. She didn't let me go, nor did she care about my parents or Josh.
As we were in the air, I decided to read a novel. It soon made me sleep.
At 9PM, we landed in the lighted city of New York, Manhattan. It wasn't a dream but I felt like it was one. Keisha and I were already very excited.
We grabbed a cab and drove all the way to one of the best hotels. We got there and decided to settle for the night. It was a big, beautiful one with a view on the city and its lights. I was more than excited.
"I'm in New York baby!" Keisha screamed over the balcony of our room. I laughed.
"Come in here Kee. People are sleeping and we too need to sleep."
She came in and jumped happily on the bed by me.
"Shayenne, I'm so happy. When I think of the fact that we'd soon be on that campus. It'll be one great experience."
"Hahaha, I know right." I couldn't help it. I was very happy too.
"Far away from your rules."
"Actually."
"Be ready to meet new people." Keisha said in a serious tone.
I nervously looked at my fingers. Keisha was trying to make me get more friends. She thought I needed to socialize a little more. I had a lot of anxiety attacks when it came to socialising. I'd never been good at talking to and meeting new people.
"I'm ready Kee. Now I don't have Josh or my parents around."
"Good."
The next day finally reached and Keisha and I were off to the University Of International Filming Arts - T.U.O.I.F.A -, in simple form.
It was one of the biggest universities in the country that had to do with Cinematography. I was more than happy to go there.
We arrived the very huge and beautiful campus at 2pm. We were given guides and sent to our rooms. I was so happy. Keisha and I settled in the campus apartment given to us, which had two rooms in it, a bath, a little living room and kitchen. I sure was glad, so far.
'This is so cool!'
I thought, smiling. I then turned to Keisha.
"Now that we've settled, what do we do?" I asked excitedly.
"Let's go see the place. Other freshmen are probably doing same."
"Okay."
I'd just turned 20 and I kinda felt like I was maybe too young for the environment? Most of the students were adults and that kind of made me a little nervous. However, it wasn't like there weren't students in their early twenties, there as well.
I was still happy that Keisha was with me, and so I stuck to her. Things were gonna be great.
We walked down the beautiful sidewalks and streets of the campus. It sure was vast. We even passed through the fraternity quarters and saw a lot of boys moving in with their belongings. They were definitely old students.
"Ooh, I'm gonna like this place, Shayenne." Keisha cooed, looking at the different boys that walked by. I laughed.
"You're a case. Do you ever not think about boys?" I teased with a little laugh.
"Nope." she laughed and I joined her.
"I'm gonna love this place, though not for the same reasons as you." I explained, "It always a good thing to come out of one's comfort zone and try to explore many other horizons."
"Thank goodness you are saying that, because I really hope you lose up a little and live!"
I chuckled.
"We'll see with time."
Keisha and I continued to explore the huge campus, admiring the buildings and excited students.
"Isn't this great?" I kept on asking happily. It wasn't my fault . This was new liberty to me and I felt happy. I was very excited indeed.
"Calm down honey." Keisha giggled.
"I can't. I'm more than happy that–" I cut my sentence abruptly when,
"HEY!" Keisha screamed, pulling me aside. Surprised and a little shaken, I realized that I'd almost been knocked down by a race bike. The person driving had stopped. We stared at whosoever it was, angrily.
The stranger wore black leather from head to toe and had on a black helmet.
"Are you blind?" the guy asked rudely, without taking off the helmet.
My goodness. Was he sick?
"What?" I asked in disbelief.
"Oh, so you're deaf too? Don't you watch the hell where you go? What if I'd knocked you down?" he continued to rant and I was so close to losing it.