The atmosphere at school on the first day was usually different to me, the breath was weird, the silence was deafening and everybody looked new. I don't know if it is just me who felt that way or it is the same with everybody else.
"Hey, s'up!" Said a guy as I sat on a chair next to him. "I'm Kave." He said, reaching his hands towards me.
"Michael" I replied, shaking his hand. He was a calm and collected guy.
"First day?" He asked while putting on his earphones.
"Well, brace yourself bud, it's gonna be a party" He added while smiling. As I was still trying to comprehend what he meant the teacher walked in and started doing introductions of himself and the semester lessons ahead.
"Boring!" Murmured Kave with a smirk on his face. Clearly he didn't like school, and he didn't care at all. He stared at his laptop which was playing music videos, while shaking his head. He didn't mind the awkward glances the teacher gave him. I thought it was rude but it was none of my business, so I tried my best to concentrate at the teacher.
Mr Gibson was a jovial guy, he was young, fancy and funny. He tried to cheer the class as much as possible. Though as much as he tried, I had never been a guy that concentrated in class. I was in school just because I had to. Being the eldest child in the family, I had the responsibility to set a good example to my younger siblings, get some skills and eventually get a job and help my mother take care of them.
I blurred the teacher's speech and took some time to observe my classmates. While most were very attentive, I found a few interesting ones. Like the dude in a suit, probably doing some Forex trade on his laptop, the dread-locked girl who was doing some drawing on a piece of paper, the cool guy dressed on Versace and Gucci, he looked like he had popped out of a hip hop video. The girl with gray braided hair ballooning chewing gum and rolling it on her finger, the funnily dressed guy who wrote down everything the teacher said, and not forgetting my possibly campus best friend, Kave. This bunch just seemed like the kind of people who would just get along. They had no worry or any hurry in the world.
Two hours later, the bell rang , it was break time. Kave and I walked out of the classroom together, we went on a walk around campus. Unlike my village high school, college was very diverse. It had all kinds of people. Perfect place to expand my knowledge of the world.
"Hey ladies!" Shouted Kave to a group of beautiful girls seated on a bench around a table.
"Heeeeeey!" The shouted back at us in unison.
"Dude, this is gonna be lit!" He said. I wasn't the type of a guy who was into women much, though I had some kind funny magnet cheat activated on me.
"What is?" I asked pretending not to know what he was talking about.
"Campus dude!" He shouted in excitement like he was going to burst of it. "Did you see those girls dude? Oh, they are perfect!" He added while giving very serious poetic gestures.
"I guess, they are beautiful."
"Dude, you guess?"
I laughed it off while he continued to talk. I remembered back at high school, my friends and I would talk for hours about how we were going to get laid in college, I still believe that was the reason half of us wanted to join college. I always pictured myself as a playboy who would sleep with nearly all campus girls or a very loyal boyfriend to the school's prettiest girl. I laughed at my younger self, though I felt like I might be able to live up to my childish thoughts if I let Kave become my campus bestie.