Chapter 2

Alexa Martinez @AlexCutie5499 Good morning everyone! So excited for today! #FirstDayOfSchool #CollegeLife

Alexandra Martinez woke up early that morning. It's the first day of school and it's her first day as a college student. She's so excited she reports all her activities on her Twitter account.

Alexa Martinez @AlexCutie5499 Already missing my high school friends. We won't be classmates in college anymore. @sam_roque @steffiebasilio @issay_18 #CollegeLife

Alexa Martinez @AlexCutie5499 First impression lasts. That's why I have to pick the right outfit for my #FirstDayOfSchool. #CollegeLife

Before going out of her room, she posed on her oval shaped life sized mirror to take a picture of her OOTD for the day. It was a yellow sleeveless top paired with blue skinny jeans and yellow wedge pumps. She immediately posted it to her Instagram account with the caption and hashtag:

alexcutiemartinez #OOTD Have to be pretty on my first day as college student.

She took her Louis Vuitton bag, put her pink notebook inside, with her pink pen with a brown rabbit on its cap and her gold iPhone 5S. She then went out of her room and met her sister on the hallway of the second floor of their two-story mansion. Angelica Martinez is likewise ready to go to school on her blue sleeveless Sabrina blouse paired with white skinny jeans and silver stiletto sandals. She's carrying a black Chanel handbag and a laptop encased in a black sleeve.

'Good morning Ate!" Alex said to Angel.

'What time did you wake up?" Angel asked instead. She's looking at her silver iPhone 5S surfing through her Facebook account. 'My timeline's flooded by your tweets."

'Well, we have to start happy to be lively all throughout the day," Alex said.

'Super excited, huh?" Angel said. 'Let's see if you're still as enthusiastic as you are right now when you start having assignments plus projects on top of your quizzes."

'Ate, it's just my first day at college. Don't scare me yet."

'I'm just telling you what to expect."

They arrived at their dining room at the first floor. They were greeted by their parents, Benjie and Alice, who are on their corporate attires ready to go to the office after breakfast. After saying their graces, the four of them started eating.

After breakfast, Angel and Alex proceeded to CPRU. Angel has her own car, gifted by her parents during her eighteenth birthday. Since then, she is the one taking Alex to school and after class, they both go home together whatever their schedules are. Alex waits for Angel's class to finish, since her class always ends later than her younger sister.

Alex and Angel both go to Carlos P. Romulo University. It is the most prestigious private school in the city. They have been studying in that school since preschool. Now, they are both college students, though belonging to different schools. The tertiary department of CPRU is divided into five schools. Angel goes to Business School, and Alex belongs to the School of Arts and Humanities.

But that morning, Alex is in the School of Social Sciences, because her first subject is Philippine History. She was early for her first class, just like most of her classmates on that subject. Upon entering, all eyes are on her making her feel embarrassed. She avoided her classmates' gaze by looking down, occupying the first vacant chair that she noticed.

She took out her phone and tweeted:

Alexa Martinez @AlexCutie5499 First class of the day. Kinda scary. #FirstDayOfSchool #CollegeLife

When she looked up after the tweet, she saw the handsome face of her seatmate. She was quite taken aback that she just gazed at him.

'Hi!" the guy beside her said. He seems friendly with that cute smile on his face.

'Hello…" was what Alex managed to say. She suddenly became conscious at herself because the guy is too close to her.

'I'm Richard." He held out his hand.

'Alex." She accepted it and they shook hands.

'Alex… Nice name."

'Thanks." Alex smiled.

'So… what are you taking up?" Richard asked.

'BFA Interior Design. And you?"

'BS Bio."

'Wow!" Alex was impressed. She is amazed with those people who are good in Science because she's not good in that subject. Just like Math.

'I guess you're here for the History subjects as well?" Richard asked.

"Yeah... Same as you, I guess."

"Yup. Have to take them. Even if I don't really like History."

'Really? Me too," Alex said.

Richard nodded. 'Boring."

'As for me, I love knowing what happened before. You know what I mean?"

Richard nodded.

'I just don't like memorizing things; especially my memory is very selective."

'Well, that's where I'm good at," Richard said. 'I can easily remember things and my mind retains memories very well."

'I envy you…"

'But, I'm not good in arts," Richards said. 'Even my penmanship is like abstract, you can't understand it."

'I thought you're not good in arts?"

The two of them laugh together.

Their professor for that subject came and the lecture began. It lasted for an hour and a half. After the class, Alex and Richard went out the classroom together.

'So, what's your next class?" Richard asked.

'Ahm…" Alex checked her schedule on her iPhone. 'Math. School of Physical Sciences. You?"

'Filipino. I think my classroom is just on the second floor."

'Oh…"

They both looked at each other, as if wanting to say something. Both, though, does not know what to say.

'I'll go now," Richard finally said. 'My class is about to start."

Alex nodded. 'Okay."

'Bye!"

'Bye!"

'See you!"

Alex nodded.

Richard walked backwards waving at her, until he is beside the staircase. He went up and in a few moments he disappeared on Alex' sight.

Alex felt quite bad that a wonderful encounter such as that has ended quite quickly. Never mind. She is sure they will meet again. They are classmates at History, right?

She then took out her iPhone and composed a tweet.

Alexa Martinez @AlexCutie5499 The guy I'm sitting next to Phil. History is super nice...

She smiled as she posted the tweet.