What does love look like ?

IN GOOD HANDS

Claire is sitting on her bed holding an old Novel written by Stuart Woods, it was opened to chapter 37 but Claire was deep in her thoughts.

Claire’s POV

Our freshman social week is next week, there would be so much parties and social activities, it’s called the Freshman week so you’d almost believe it’s for the freshmen but I think it’s a social construct that allows the old students mingle with the freshmen and meet new people to make their lives less boring in college and of course it’s also a lecture free week.

For the others who have no interest in the mingle, they get to do whatever they want with their time, as I’ve planned to spend mine with Lawson.

Lawson my boyfriend is in a Nursing school just 115km away from my college, it was his grand plan to apply there so we wouldn’t be so far from each other when I told him what college I was applying to, at first it was romantic that he was willing to re-route from his initial plans for our future but now he has friends in my college too, so it’s as much as it is freshman week for me for him as well, he said since it was a less busy week for him, he’ll be driving 115km to spend time with me on Wednesday and he was staying through the weekend, I guess I should be excited.

I snapped out of my thoughts when I heard the door open, it was Fab, she was talking to someone when she burst into laughter and said “come in I want to tell my roommates about the hottest girl in campus.’”

Fab was occupying the frame of the door so I couldn’t see who it was but I could tell she was with someone.

“Hi roomie did you miss me, I have an interesting story to share with you” Fab said as she walked into the room towards me.

She could barely complete her statement in between the laughing

I looked at her with a smile and just before I could say Hi back, guess who walked in.

“Hey you are taking so much time, come here we have to tell Claire what happened” Fab said stretching her hand towards Francesca and pulling her towards my bed side.

“Sit, you can sit on Claire’s stool” Fab said to Francesca, as she hopped on my bed and sat next to me.

My bed was the first thing you see when you open our room door, to the left was Beth bedside and on the right was Fab’s, we all had enough space for our wardrobes and reading desk, it was a pretty spacious room.

Hi Fab, I thought you had plans with Sam, “oh I told him I’ll be a few minutes late, but anyway I wanted to tell you about Francesca’s secret admirer, she turned to Francesca and said do you want to tell her or do you want me to” Fab had a mischievous grin on her face.

Francesca is on my left, she sat on the stool next to the bed and leaned her upper body onto the desk as if she were sitting and lying down at the same time and her hands were stretched towards me, it looked like she was facing Fab but she could also see me very clearly, I was closer to her and it made me nervous.

Francesca is wearing black jeans with a belt and on one side she had some chains attached to the jeans, they look so cool, she wore it with a white tank and a jacket on top, from the way she was sitting I could see just the half of her face because of the red Snapback cap she had on, I could see her lips and were plump and looked well moisturized but not glossy, you can tell she used a lip balm.

Francesca turned to me and said “Hey, please don’t mind Fab she’s just trying to make fun of me because a random girl gave me a rose at the Library.”

“Do not forget the cute note she added Frankieee” Fab said, laughing so hard.

“Fab please” Francesca said moving her hands towards Fab to shut her mouth.

Just as Francesca was sitting back up, her cap hit the side of my eye, and I let out a sound: ‘Ouchhh!’

They both turned to be with concern, Francesca kept apologizing and Fab kept asking if I was okay.

I’m fine guys I promise, It just felt like a little sting because it was so close to my eyes.

“Maybe we should go to the clinic” Fab suggested

“Clinic for what” I said laughing, Fab that’s a bit dramatic.

“Can I see it?” Francesca said with both of her hands reaching for my face. She stopped halfway when she didn’t get any response and looked directly at me, tilting her head to the side as if she was waiting to get permission.

“Oh sure” I said clearing my throat after, it felt like I couldn’t finish my words.

I felt both of my hands on my face, they felt so warm and she looked like she was paying so much attention to my little scratch.

I couldn’t stop staring at her lips and my heart started to race.

“It’s not that serious but it definitely needs attention, I have a First Aid kit in my room, I could clean it up and put a little ointment on it if you’d like, that way it would heal faster.” Francesca said

“That’s a good idea Francesca, please take care of her. I need to go now, Sam has been waiting for over an hour” Fab said jumping off the bed and picking up her bag.

Fab and Sam have been dating since the year started, she said it was love at first sight and they were going to get married after college and move to the countryside and have six babies, I always wondered why so many babies.

Fab looked at me on her way out, “will you be okay roomie” she said, oh please don’t keep Sam waiting for much longer I’m absolutely fine I said, “don’t worry you’re in good hands” she said looking at Francesca.

“Girl go get laid” Francesca said and they both started laughing, tell Sam I said Hi she added.

“Will do” Fab responded as she completely exit the room.