Chapter 20: Meeting Other Residence...

Walking out of my room I run into 2 other people walking into the common room. One of them has silver hair and I don't mean silver like an old man I mean silver like the metal. He has blue eyes is slightly tall maybe 182 cm (6 foot). The other is about 177 cm (5'10") with sandy brown hair and is wearing sunglasses. Both of them are rather lean and will definitely need to put on some muscle if they want to make it in the program. From what my parents told me the physical conditioning they put you through it pretty hard. Not as hard as the training, I have been doing with my dad but not much can be. If the training here was like the training the demon king put me through then there would be a lot of dropouts.

Walking over to the two I decided to introduce myself and they did the same.

"Hey nice to meet you guys, the names David and it seems we will be living together for the next few years."

"Hi the names Vince I live in room 1" (silver hair)

"The names nick Campbell nice to meet you. you have to tell me how you got so jacked you look like a greek god or something" (brown hair)

*ha* "Thanks all you have to do to look like me is ..."

I then went on to explain the training I have been doing for the last 14 or so years of my life. They both looked at me with sympathy and horror. I really don't understand why people will look at me like that after I tell them my training. I mean its bad and very hard don't get me wrong but like, come on it could be worse right?

"That sounds awful, I'm sorry for all that you have gone through." (Nick)

"Yeah, I had a bad childhood but that is something else" (Vince)

"It wasn't that bad. Well, anyway I'm on my way to get food how about you two? Want to come?

"We actually just got back from eating" (Vince)

"Yeah the cafeteria food isn't very good, but it will do. Oh, make sure your back before 7 p.m for the meeting." (Nick)

"What meeting?"

"Did you not read your letter either?" (Nick)

"What letter"

"They gave us a letter giving us information." The gist of it though is to be back by 7 in the common room to meet our supervisors." (Nick)

"Ah, sounds... well, boring honestly. But I guess I'll be back by then"

"Oh yeah, can you tell us your power? With such a large size I'm guessing it has to do with strength"(Nick)

"Bingo! My power does have to do with strength, but for what else you will have to see on the first day of the htc program. What about yourselves?"

"My power is luck." (Nick)

"Luck? How the hell is luck a power?"

"Well whether its good or bad luck I have some sway over it." (Nick)

"That is really cool. And confusing. How the hell does sway over luck work?"

"Couldn't tell ya. The doctors tried to tell me but it sounded like a bunch of nonsense to me" (Nick)

"Alright, and what about you Vince?"

"I am an energy absorber" (Vince)

"Nice that's pretty rare. How many energies can you absorb and release?"

"I can absorb electricity and fire right now." (Vince)

"Very cool, well I'm going to go get something to eat, see ya guys later"

Leaving the building I walk around aimlessly looking for a cafeteria to get some food as I admire the different buildings and students around me. When I say admire I mean admire, there are quite a few hot women on this campus. The problem is while they might catch my eye they don't keep it. After living for 23 years in my past life and another 18 years in this one I have matured quite a bit. Well in some areas. In most, I'm still as immature as I can be because it is fun. But back to the women and maturity thing. After living so long I have come to the conclusion that a hot woman is not what you want. You want someone beautiful. you want someone who is, maybe a little shy, with a great personality, a good head on their shoulder. you don't need some walking ad out of a sex magazine but a good woman. So while I did admire these women I did not go and try to get any of their numbers. Which I'm sure I could have if the constant flirty looks and winks I have gotten every time I make eye contact with any of them. The looks you get used to after some time but the winks are weird. You never get used to a wink, especially from someone you aren't interested in. It just comes off as creepy.

Finding the cafeteria I walk in and look at the selection of food, or lack thereof. What I find when looking at the selection is what I expected, old pizza, dry burgers, and not much else. Really though, how on the first day, no not even the first day, the day before the first day. How are you already serving old pizza? Not even giving the pizza a second look I grab 2 burgers and a lot of ketchup and mayo because if I have to eat this, then the least I can do is make it as palatable as possible. (I really should have just cooked in the dorm. But no I just had to go walk around the campus. *sigh* I'm such an idiot)

Looking around for an open spot to sit, because for some reason there are a lot of people at this cafeteria I find a seat across from a pretty girl who is sitting by herself in a corner. Walking over I get a better look at her and the first thing I notice is her size. No, not her bust, which for her size was nice. It was her height. She couldn't have been more than 152cm( 5") if that. When it comes to looks her face and skin tone tells me she is probably from European descent. Maybe french? English? I don't know but she is rather pale. Her hair is bleach blonde, but not that fake blonde that a lot of women use but a natural bleach blonde. Her face is pretty, but a pretty that grows on you the more time you spend around them and speaking of her face after she looks up and sees me coming towards her she blushes a bright red and looks back down at her food.

(cute) Smiling I walk up and ask her if I can sit with her. glancing up at me she nods, blushes again, then looks back at her pizza.

"Hi, the names David. Thanks for letting me sit with you."

"It's no problem..."

*chuckle* "You know when someone introduces themselves it's polite to do the same" *cheeky smile*

*glance up**blush* "Oh, uh, sorry. my name Camille. Nice to meet you."

"Nice to meet you as well Camille, I'm a freshman this year what about yourself?"

"I'm a freshman as well"

"Oh, a fellow fish. nice! What are you majoring in if I may ask? Personally I'm doing nursing. Now I know what you are thinking. 'You? Nursing? But your such a big guy, why don't you just go be a cop or if you want to be in the medical field may be a first responder? Why a nurse?'. Well, thanks for asking. The reason I want to be a nurse is that I want to help people but I don't want to go to school long enough to be a doctor and I don't want to be a first responder because they don't make enough money. So here we are."

(Camille's thoughts - But I never asked what you are going to school for yet? why are you telling me all this? We just met 5 seconds ago!)

"I'm majoring in nursing as well"

"What? Really?! Small world, small world. Well, I hope to see you in some of my classes. It was lovely meeting you Camille and I truly hope to see you again soon. Bye!" *waves*

As this conversation was going on I had already inhaled my food. I was planning on asking her to show me around if she was an upperclassman, but with her being a freshman as well and so shy I decided against it. I really do hope to see her again, she was really cute and definitely my type. I wish I got to see her stand up though. I bet her butt would look good...

Well, anyways I decided to go ahead and make my way back to mellbrook since it is getting late and that meeting should be starting soon. I wonder what the rest of the residence will be like? Vince and Nick seemed nice enough, and I never really had any friends growing up except Chad and Shane in elementary school. I wonder whatever happened to them? *shrug* I'm sure I'll see them again soon.