Joseph Wright's Story

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Karsey rolled her suit cases behind her as she walked up to the huge, four story building. LA University. She was so excited to start a new life. This was a new chapter in her book of life. She would meet new people, and everyone from highschool, whom she still thought of to this very day, would no longer sit around in her mind. It would be in a file in her mind labeled: Past.
The only one who would remain in her life would be her older brother, Jamison, who just started college last year. He'd been in the same grade as Karsey throughout elementary school, junior high, and high school, but he started college last year.

She practically skipped into the building, and a lot of students were roaming around. She realized it must be their lunch break or study hall. Karsey looked around in hopes of seeing Jamison, but all the oxygen she had was suddenly taken from her when she saw the boy she'd fallen in love with all those years back, in sophomore year. The boy she still loved to this day. Joseph Wright. There he stood, at the front desk in the lobby of the university, recieving his schedule. He really hadn't changed one bit.

Karsey panicked, not wanting him to see her, so she looked away, in hopes of hiding her face, but then she saw at least three others that she recognized. Sophia Hartley, that total downer, the negative Nelly. The girl who despised Karsey for how "conceited" she is. And then there was Sophie Devero. That little flirtatious brat. Karsey hated her, and well, seeing here just made Karsey want to gag. But the one other person she saw was her old best friend. Chris Lightning.

"Chrissy!" She yelled out, running up to him, and she practically jumped into his arms. He was the one person she was actually excited to see.

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Jamison looked around for a moment, in hopes of find his sister, and that's when he saw someone he hadn't expected to see. Lillian Androva. The bitchy, athletic girl from high school that he had a crush on. And then he looked around again, trying to find Karsey. Maybe finding Karsey was just a cover-up to keep from making eye-contact with Lillian. Then he saw someone else he hadn't seen since highschool. Maria Dunn. And then two people walked in through the entrance of the building. Jonathan Smithers, Jamison's old high school best friend and Ronan Walsh, the party animal, whom he thought was a bit too carefree, and then he heard someone yell, "Chrissy!" He turned around to see his little sister hugging the life out of Chris Lightning.

"Karsey!" Jamison grinned, and he walked over to her and Chris. He was sure all the shouting would attract most of the others that went to high school with them. They would surely recognize their voices, right?

Jamison pulled Karsey into a tight hug, and she quickly hugged him back, "I missed you Flynnie-boy!" she squealed happily.

Joseph looked up when he heard a lot of commotion and saw pretty much everyone he'd taken notice of in high school gathered in the center of the hallway. He smiled and went to say high. "Hey guys, it's been a while." He looked over and saw Karsey hugging Chris and smiled, holding out his arms. "Do I get a hug?"

Karsey's eyes widened when she saw Lillian, and her smile brightened, "Hey Lilly!" she exclaimed, and she gave her a quick hug. Then she heard Joseph's voice, and she smiled even brighter.

She smiled when she saw Ronan, "Ron!" she grinned, giving him a hug.

"Joseph!" Karsey squealed, and she jumped into his arms, hugging him tightly. She buried her head in the crook of his neck, somthing she'd always done when she hugged him. She just found it to be quite comfortable when she rested her head there, "I missed you so much," she mumbled.

Karsey let go of Joseph, not wanting him to think she was strange for hugging him to long. She went back to hugging Chris. Even thought Joseph was her best friend ever, she really missed Chris too. They were constantly hanging out, and it just felt nice to be able to hug him right now.

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Jamison smiled when he saw Lillian, and he pulled her into a hug, "Hey, Lil, how's it going?" he asked, using the nick name he'd given her.

He then noticed Maria, and he gave her a heart-warming smile. Jamison walked over to her, and he pulled her into a tight hug, "Maria," he said softly, "I didn't expect to see you here."

It felt nice to be reunited with all of his old friends, but seeing Maria was probably the best thing to happen to him all day.

Joseph smiled brightly and hugged Karsey back, happy to be with his old friends again. He glanced over at Chris and found him glaring at him, he quickly looked away and pretended he hadn't noticed. "So guys, how has everyone been?"

Ronan lifted his arms as if to shut everyone up; "Alright, alright listen up. I know we're all busy and all finding our nests today, but make sure to meet up at the library at eight o'clock tonight. I'm so happy to see ya'll again. All of you who ever know you are somebody," nodding at everyone of them with a reassuring look, he grinned at the end; "I gotta go to bizzmania and fix you all a little somethin' somethin'." He winked at Karsey and slapped Chris on his shoulder before waving to the other as he headed further inside the building towards the offices and storages.

Chris let out an 'oof' and held his shoulder as Ronan walked away and he laughed softly. "Well, I guess I gotta get to my room anyways. I'll see you guys at 8." He smiled and waved, walking towards the dorms.

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'Hey, if it isn't my favorite red head! No way you go here too,' Jonathon beamedonce Sophia was in front of him. 'Seems like everyone's going here. James is here, Karseys here... Lillians here.'

Sophia hadn't even heard half of what he said. She kept her attention focused on the commotion around her; Karsey, Chris, Joseph, Maria, Sophi, Lilian, and Ronan too? It was all too much. Within a few seconds, Sophia was wiping out her bottle of asprins. She shook the bottle until four, small pills dropped into her hands and she chugged all of them at once into her mouth. Before she retrieved the bottle of asprins, she caught sight of Jamison heading their way and she could've sworn her heart dropped immediately. He just so.. beautiful in a way that was indescribable. Sophia knew that boys weren't beautiful, but this particular boy was. And Sophia- without thinking- threw the bottle of asprin at Jonathon to get rid of before Jamison was standing no more than five feet in front of her. He seemed to ignore her, but those five feet meant something to her. 'Hey bro, what's up?' she heard him say to Johnathon. Hearing his voice had Sophia pinching herself to restrain from squealing. Afterwards, Jonathon had said something back that Sophia couldn't really comprehend until he mentioned he in the conversation. 'Uh, I was actually gonna start chatting with Sophia.' At that, Sophia swallowed- hard at the attention she was given that she nearly forgot the pills; now stuck in her throat. She muffled a cough. Two. The pills still wouldn't budge, so she stood there with her lips clasped together and her face growing flushing tomato red.

Chris found his room, room 364. He knocked on the door and no one answered, he got out his key and unlocked the door. He looked around the fairly spacious room with two beds and shrugged. "Looks like this will work." He said to himself as he began to unpack.




Joseph looked around and shrugged, seeing as no one was really talking to him he decided to go and find his room. He walked away and looked down at the paper, at the top it read room 343.

The hallway in the third floor of the dorms were falling silent. The elevator and stairs were empty, but before the silent relaxation could hit the ground in hallway B containing room 320-370, the elevator dinged and the sliding doors let out a bunch of laughing young men excited for the tomorrow night's party. It had been carefully planned by Ronan for a long time, and a few other poor souls who couldn't resist the party animal's charisma when dragging them along on his schemes. With Ronan in the lead, they were now dragging two full beer barrels on a baggage trolley, making a ruckus in the hallway. Ronan's distinguished laugh and excited voice could easily be heard in between the other boys' as they were rolling the heavy drink past room 330, 331,332 etc, on their way to Ronan's room all the way down to door 366. "Alright shh, enough. The party isn't starting yet guys, shut up. Easy, focus now guys. Shut it." He ordered in between contradicting laughs and chuckles. It was like The Joker and his crazy clowns.

The thing was: Ronan had made to smuggle two ten liter barrels inside the school, and more was coming. His plan of having the party on the top floor's conference room of the administration, was almost complete. All he had to do left was to keep the administration unknown to the party until it was to start the night after, and make sure the janitor never realized one of the sets of keys to the whole school was missing. Keeping the snitchers uninvited and the janitor unaware of the top floor security, it'd be a great start of the school year, partying with style with the fancy conference room and top floor veranda. Fooling the authority was Ronan's favorite thing to do.

Chris was just putting the last of his clothes away in the dresser when he heard an all too familiar voice laughing and joking down the hall. He smirked and stepped out of his room just as Ronan passed his room. "Ron, what kind of trouble are you getting into now?" He asked in a friendly, joking fashion.




Joseph heard them walk past his room but he ignored them, instead sitting down to write in his poetry book.

Chris just chuckled and went out to find someone to hang out with.

(we're going to go ahead and time-skip to night time where everyone is in the library, since Ronan had asked to meet everyone there.)




After hanging out with Chris and Lillian for a while, it was getting close to eight o'clock. It was currently 7:54, and Karsey didn't want to be late to the library, where everyone had been asked, by Ronan, to meet. Kind of ironic that he'd want to meet in the library, since he's more of a partier than a reader.

Lillian had already left, so it was just Karsey and Lillian standing there. "So, do you want to walk up to the library with me?" she asked him, looking up at him. She stared right into his eyes every time she talked to him, he had gorgeous, chocolate eyes, they practically had her melting. He was just a beautiful boy in general. He was just as gorgeous as Joseph was charming. Boys aren't supposed to be considered gorgeous or beautiful, but there was an exception for Chris. He wasn't classified as hot. Sure, he had a pretty toned body, but he didn't exactly have strong features that made girls swoon. In Karsey's opinion, Chris had softer features that made her want to melt. He had a nice jaw line, and slightly high cheek bones, yet he had a soft tone in his eyes, except for when he was mad. He was intimidating when he was mad, but he'd never been mad at Karsey before. She'd only seen him mad a couple times, and that was when he was getting in fights with other guys. But it didn't happen often.

Karsey got lost in his eyes, and she accidentally spoke her mind, "Your eyes are mesmorising. They're like never ending pits of dark, milky chocolate."

Once she realized she'd said it out loud, she blushed wildly, and she covered her face with her hands, something she did when she was embarrassed. She remembered once Chris had referred to it as cute. Which made her blush even more, and she had tried to hide even more of her face. Even thinking about it made her blush even more than she already was right now.

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Jamison went to his dorm room, and he found Joseph sitting on the other bed in the room. Jamison's old room mate moved out last year, since he'd been a senior, and last year was his last year.

"So you're my room mate, huh?" Jamison grinned slightly. He didn't mind sharing a dorm with Joseph. They were friends, only because of Karsey though. They weren't that close, but they talked.

Jamison practically jumped on his bed, and he lay on his back, looking up at the ceiling, thinking about Maria. He'd just gotten back from the walk with her, and it was already 7:56. "Shit, we're supposed to be in the library at eight."

He hopped out of bed, and he looked at Joseph, "Are you coming?" he asked, and he walked over to the door, opening it, and he waited for Joseph to come.

☺ATTENTION ALL STUDENTS ATTENDING L.A. UNIVERSITY!!!☺

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Please report to the South wing library for our 95th annual Meet N' Great and our club fair. Tis' the time to meet some old or new faces around campus all while seeing which clubs/sports you're interested in joining in the year of 2014. So, hitchhike on over to the South wing library, and remember GO! GO! MIGHTY ROMANS!!!



May the smiles be with you!

Chris had had fun hanging out with Lillian and Karsey, even to this day he could feel that little tiny spark he'd always felt around her in high school, but he wouldn't let her know he felt that way. She deserved someone way better than him. He could just deal with it. When she commented on his eyes in such a sweet way his eyes widened and a bright blush crept on his face, especially when she covered her face in that cute way she did when she was embarrassed. He turned his face away, trying to hide his blush and rubbed the back of his neck self consciously. "Th-Thanks..."




Joseph looked up from his journal and closed it, smiling at Jamison. "Oh, hey, I guess we are." He put the book aside and thought a moment. "I suppose if you and Karsey are going I might as well go too." He said standing up and following him out.

"I'm sorry, I- I didn't mean to uh say that. You probably think I'm weird now," she mumbled, her voice slightly muffled by her hands, but she was still able to be heard. She felt so stupid. Karsey decided to peek at him to see his reaction, and he looked away, that couldn't be a good sign, "You must think I'm an idiot. I'm sorry, Chris, I should go. I'm sorry," she apologized at least like three times, and she felt so stupid. He probably hated her now. Even though she'd said she was going to go, she was so embarrassed it was hard to move. Her legs suddenly felt like jelly, and she was afraid that if she moved, she'd collapse.






Jamison walked with Joseph, and he frowned when he saw the sign, he'd already been informed of everything last year though, he'd started college a year earlier than the rest of the bunch. He looked at Joseph, "They're just going to tell you the sports and clubs and extra classes you can sign up for. It's not that bad. I had to go to it last year. You might find something you're actually interested in," he shrugged, "I have nothing better to do, so I might as well come with you."

Chris quickly turned to look at her, worried by what she said. "No! I-I don't think you're an idiot. I appreciated it it's just... a little embarrassing is all." He looked down and rubbed the back of his neck again. "I... I really like hearing you say that..." His eyes widened and he covered his mouth, regretting saying that as soon as the words left his mouth, he prayed she didn't read too much into it.




Joseph nodded. "Alright." He said as he began walking towards the library. "I hope there's a literacy club." He mused out loud.

Karsey looked at Chris in surprise. She hadn't expected him to like the fact that she said that.

"You like hearing me say that? Are you implying that you like it when I compliment you?" she just now realized that she'd removed her hands from her face, and she was sure she was still blushing, but at this point she was too surprised to care.

"Why do you like hearing me say that?" she asked him, her voice cracking slightly when she asked the question, due to nervousness. Part of Karsey hoped he liked being complimented by her because he had a crush on her, but that was too good to be true, and Karsey knew it. All the romance novels and movies had gotten to her head, and now she actually thought Chris Lightning might like her. She was beyond naive, she was even beyond pathetic. And she was well aware of it.





Jamison looked at Joseph, "Actually, I think they do, but I'm not positive. I guess we'll find out," he shrugged. They walked to the library, where they were greeted by tons of freshmen. But he couldn't seem to find Karsey anywhere. He wanted to sit with his sister and Joseph.

Jamison then saw Maria, and he waved to her, calling her name, "Maria! Over here!" he waved her over.

Chris mentally kicked himself as he didn't look her in the eyes, blushing brightly as he rubbed the back of his neck. "U-Um... well..."




Joseph followed Jamison silently.

Jonathon picked out some books and walked over to a table to sit alone. Before reading though, he glanced around.
"I wont join any but... Ill look at some of the clubs... since Im here I guess" he sighed and slid the books into his backpack, he'd check them out later. He walked over to a few tables, just to read some fliers. He stopped at a table, it was for chess club.
A short guy with glasses was standing there, with a chess bored in front of him. "Hm..." Jonathon stared at the bored for a moment. "You gonna play?" the guy with glasses ask. "You make first move" Jonathon nodded.
The guy with glasses did. Jonathon smirked, and beat him in one turn. "Sorry, too good" he shrugged and walked off.
He was just being honest, he did find anything wrong with it.
As he walked he saw three familiar people in the corner of his eye. He looked over, it was Maria, Jamison, and Joseph.
He tapped his fingers at his sides for a moment, wondering if he should go over or not. He over-thinks things sometimes.

'Just do it' he thought and nodded confidently to himself. He walked over to the three and smiled. "Hey James, sorry we didn't get to finish our chat in the hallway with Sophia choking and all. Also um, sorry if Im interrupting" he laughed holding his arms.
"Hey Maria, Joseph..." he nodded.

"Sorry, uh, my shyness stuck with me I guess" he laughed and rubbed the back of his head. "I probably did seem rude back there." he chuckled and smiled to her.

Chris watched her and sighed. If I don't say something it's gonna fuck everything up. I've come this far, might as well come clean. He thought to himself and sighed. He walked over and sat next to Karsey. "Look, I'm sorry, I'm just not good at this... emotional stuff. But frankly, I was happy you said that about me because I've had a huge crush on you since high school..." He looked down nervously then turned his head away to hide his blush.




Joseph listened silently, smiling at the new arrivals.