Study Buddy: Part One
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Hey Guys: I'm kinda new to writing and I wanted to share my first story with you. I have uploaded part one and part two, and I'd like to know what you think.
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Part One
[Part Two](%5C)
[Part Three](%5C)
"Crap! I'm late for class!" That's me. Always late. It was the first day of my junior year of college at Reno University. For some reason I still can't sleep the night before the first day. But I digress...
I jump out of my bed, quickly find a nice shirt and some nice jeans to wear, and rush out the door in record time. As I'm leaving my room I see my roommate and best friend Adam standing in the kitchen eating some eggs. Adam is a tall thin red fox, and he was standing there in nothing but his boxers.
"Can you eat with clothes on?" I quip to him.
"Aren't you late for class, Phil?" Adam retorted. Too late though, I was already on my way out of the front door. I practically ran down the street and across campus to my first class, Calculus. I walk in and see a free seat near the window. I walk over to it and collapse into it. After taking a minute to catch my breath, I take a look around the room. As I thought, after two years into my major, most of the people in the class are people that I've already had classes with.
Class passes by quickly, I've always been pretty good at math, and this semester seemed to be particularly easy. After class ends, I have to run across campus again to get to my next class.
"This is crazy," I thought to myself. "Why would they have classes this far apart with only 10 minutes to get there?!"
I stop in the bathroom quickly. As I'm washing my hands, I look up and see a dark blue wolf with light blue accents and white ears in the mirror. I take a closer look and I see that I have bedfur still. I look down and see that at least the blue fur on top of my tail and the white underneath looks fine.
Again, I'm slightly late to my next class. The chalkboard in the front of the room says "COMPUTER SCIENCE 326." This building is so old it has a chalkboard! The chairs also feel like they've been here as long as the building has. As I try to find a comfortable way to sit, the professor walks in.
"Listen up. This class will not be easy. I am not trying to scare you, in fact I'm here to help you. For you Computer Science majors, this is the make or break class. Please try to keep up. Before I go any farther, I want you to find a study buddy to help you through this class."
I look to the guy to my right and see that he's already pairing up with someone so I turn to my left, and I see her. The most beautiful wolf in the room. She has light blue fur with purple highlights and white ears too. I start to wonder why I've never seen this girl before, but she interrupts my thoughts.
"Hey wanna be my study buddy? I just transferred here from Las Vegas and I'm not quite used to the teaching style here," she said in her soft voice.
"Sure. I'm Phil, what's your name?"
"Heather. I-"
"Okay, that's been enough time!" the professor said. "Time to get started on today's lesson, Data Structures..."
Computer Science has always been my favorite class, which is a good thing since I'm a CS major, but this class was my favorite of all. The professor, a large white polar bear named Dr. Herald, was really nice, and made the subject material really interesting. We did code by hand and then walked through it with the rest of the class. I even got a "Good job, Phil!" from the professor. When it was time to leave, I was actually sad the class was ending. Heather and I swapped information and then left to do our own things.
I was meeting up with Adam at the university cafeteria, but I was a little early so I pulled out my computer science book and started my homework. I continued for a while until I was interrupted by Adam.
"Hey Phil! You been here long?"
"Yeah, not to worry I got most of my CS homework done. You hungry?" I asked.
"When am I not?" Adam retorted.
We went inside and got our food, paid and sat down. We started to tell each other about our days and then I got to the part about Heather.
"Wait, did you say you finally found a girl?" Adam joked.
"Haha, very funny. I told you, we are just study buddies. Actually I should get a hold of her to see if she needs help on that homework, it was pretty hard."
"I don't get why you like CS, it's just boring. Now, political science, that's cool."
"Yeah, only if you never want to get a job after graduation," I quipped back.
Adam pretended to get mad and we sat for a few minutes finishing up our meal in silence. When we finished we got up, said goodbye and headed in separate directions. Adam still had one more class, but I went home. The whole way home I kept thinking about Heather. Just couldn't get her out of my mind. She was so beautiful. Her fur was a beautiful color and looked so soft...
I shook my head. I shouldn't even be thinking about her that way. We are just study buddies and that's that. She probably isn't even into guys like me. I'm a nerd, she's probably used to being with jocks.
I get home, threw my bag onto my bed and booted up my computer. I want to send Heather a quick message before I start on the rest of my homework. I quickly let her know that I am free if she wanted to get together to talk about the homework and I was just about done with it.
When I finish with that, I pull out my calculus book and start that homework. After about an hour I finish up and then flop onto my bed to take a nap. I'm just about to drift off when I hear the front door open and close, so I decide to go out and make sure that Adam was okay.
"Hey buddy, what's up?" I asked him.
"Not much, just super ready for a break. Today was hell. My last class went over by twenty-five minutes because the professor took forever to explain everything!" Adam said. "I'm going to take a nap now, can you wake me in a couple hours?"
"Yeah, I will. Have a good nap!" I said as he walked towards his room and closed the door. I went back to my room and got onto my computer to see if Heather messaged me back. She did. It said "Sorry, not tonight. Boy issues." Damn. She had a boyfriend. My ears drooped and I was actually kinda sad. I decided to retry that nap that I failed in taking earlier to get her out of my mind. I climbed up onto my bed, set an alarm on my phone and passed out.
The next thing I knew, my alarm went off. I rolled over and turned it off. I didn't want to get up, but I needed to eat and wake Adam up. I got up, went to the bathroom and looked in the mirror. I realized my bedfur was even worse, so I combed out my fur until it stayed where it was supposed to. I then went and woke up Adam. He was lying on top of his covers in nothing but his boxers again.
"Is it already time to wake up?" he said. "It feels like I just laid down!"
"Yeah, now wake up. I'll order a pizza. Get some clothes on before coming out here!"
About a half hour later the pizza shows up. I ordered my favorite, half pepperoni and half hawaiian. Adam dug right in, grabbing four pieces and putting them onto his plate and ate them by the time I had time to eat one and a half slices. Adam belched to announce he was done and he headed back to his room for homework.
Since I was done, I just surfed the net for a while. I looked over and suddenly it was midnight! I was about to log off my computer and head off to bed when I saw I had a new instant message. It was from Heather.
"Heather: Hey you still up? I need someone to talk to. I know we barely know each other, but no one else is up."
"Me: Yeah, I'm here. What's going on?"
"Heather: It's my ex... he followed me from Vegas and tried to break into my apartment. I had to call the police. I'm just a little rattled I guess." So I guess she doesn't have a boyfriend.
"Me: I'm sorry... Is there anything I can do?"
"Heather: Want to go get milkshakes? I can't sleep and it would be nice to have the company."
"Me: Of course, wanna go to that place downtown with those awful good burgers? I hear they have even better shakes."
"Heather: Yeah that sounds good. Thanks Phil. You're so sweet."
So I headed out the door to meet with Heather. I would be paying for it the next day, as I was already pretty tired. I didn't care though, she was worth the lack of sleep.