College Catastrophe

Zac was in his dorm, with a root beer, and his computer, animating a cartoon. He didnt take a shower for the weekend because he was working on a animation project, and ordered pizzas to his dorm. He was really tired right now, and he could easily blow it soon.

 

College Life is a completely different life from the life before and the life after. It's a time in life in which people leave home move to a college that can act as a complete cultural mixing pot, and they start over. Knowledge from high school is used, yes, however some knowledge is just left behind as everything is new. New experiences, new people, new professors, new setting.

For those faithful readers out there, thank you, of course the A-Blog isn't going anywhere, but I am. I'm moving onto University of California to study English to enter the big world of journalism. It would not have been possible without this blog and without all you readers this blog would not be possible. How many of you out there are starting your new life today? Maybe some of you are going to the same University I'm attending. I'd love to hear your comments. Remember to like this on Facebook.

Until Next Time,
Alex

Alex hit the publish icon on her iPhone as she published the newest blog entry online. She looked outside the car window her two parents in the front.

"This is so exciting, Alex, we're so happy for you, though we'll miss you back at the Diner." Alex's father said. She smiled at his comment. Alex's family is quite large, they live on the outside of San Francisco in a very small town. They're living consisted of an old Diner, the Diner has run in the family since the early 1900's and has just been evolving more and more. Alex father's family are the owners and her father attended culinary school to offer the best taste of home on the road food possible. Alex's mom handles the home life and the business marketing end of it all. As for the servers, assistant chefs, dish boys, and hostess Alex's whole family was involved with that.

"Lex will work when she's home, right?" Alex looked behind her, the very large van stuffed with all her family. Alex was the youngest in the family so she got the job of being the hostess, she's been the hostess since she was 7. Her slightly older sister was now stuck being hostess until she came home.

Alex has eight brothers and sisters. The oldest in the family, Margaret, was the only chosen to attend college however the deal is she needs to chase a major that will help the Diner so her plan is to go for hospitality and return and open up a motel or inn. Next, the second oldest, Josh, is the assistant chef and he has attend the vo-tech schooling in high school for culinary the rest has been taught to him by their father. Next were the twin trouble makers, Drew and Andrew, the two identical twins are two peas in a pod. They are in charge of busing the tables they too also attended vo-tech but nothing culinary but actually construction work. They've managed to add on to the Diner with the help of friends, they're quite good at their craft, they will be going on to build the inn when Margaret returns. Next is Sophy, she acts as a manager of the restaurant, she's always been good at pleasing people and making people happy so it only felt right that if people were ever displeased which was practically never, she was the one to make it all better. Next is Anthony "Tony" he works as a server. He was supposed to be a bus boy but he felt the job was "disgusting, poor, and not his skill" Tony is also the gay boy of the family, they all love him anyways. Next is Kristina "Kris" she the top server despite Antony starting first, doing gymnastics in elementary school has gifted her with great balance that she can carry several plates at once and as student class president for her high school and overall popular girl in school, oddly, people came to see her so she got more practicing serving then. Lastly is Jessica, Jessica is pretty much the same age as Alex, born 11 months apart, they both graduated together as well. Jessica however her parents found as a better server than Alex, so Jessica became a server at 13. However prior to that Alex and her shared the role of hostess and that's what Jessica would be doing now, as well continuing to serve food.

Then the ninth member of the family, Alex. The hard working individual she is she's always done her best to please however when it came to the restaurant business, Alex just isn't capable, she's not meant to do it, but she does it, everyday she'd take customer's to their tables tell them the daily special and at the end she would check them out. She occasionally would refill somebody's drink. Alex dealt with it, however she had one form of break when she was 9 and a journalist, a restaurant critic came to write a review for the restaurant. The critic was asking her different questions before she sat the critic down at her table. Though the critic was pleased by the answers and food to write a great review, the critic was more impressed by Alex's skills. So the summer when Alex was 10, the critic would stop three times a week at the diner, take Alex to her work, and teach Alex her craft. Alex was in love with it and when she told her parents her plan to go to college and then become a journalist in San Francisco her parents denied it from her and asked the critic to never speak to Alex again and quit putting false dreams in her head.

Alex though didn't give up, at just 12 she began writing in the school paper. At 13 she began a second job delivering newspapers before the restaurant open and would take the time to study each article in the paper. At 14 she submitted a weekly column, anonymously about life. At 15 she started her blog, the A-Blog. The A-Blog was successful and her parents didn't even know about it not until she was 17. Her parents demanded her to shut the down the 12,000 follower blog. Alex had to shut down her blog but there was no denying it existed when she was contacted by University of California. When that occurred the blog returned and her dream was even closer.

"She is coming home, right? I don't want to be stuck with her job." Jessica complained.

"You won't be stuck with it for long." Tony spoke out waving his arm around.

"Yes because we're going to have a baby host tables." Jessica said. Alex looked towards her mother shaking her head laying her hand on her pregnant tummy.

"Just be proud for your sister, she'll be able to refer back several new customers." Her mother said.

"Yeah, what she said." Alex father pepped in next. Alex's mother was always one for her to chase her dream her father was not so excited but Alex's mother was able to turn her goal to run away still make it where she was stuck at home even with her English degree.

"There's the exit!" Drew pointed out.

"Oi, get your arm out of my face!" Andrew pushed Drew's arm out of his face as they turned off the exit, the signing saying Santa Barbara.

 

"And as the great Bon Jovi once said, its my life, and its now or never, cause I ain't gonna live forever," Zac said as a comeback, "Why don't you ever pick those clothes? They smell, they make the room smell, and people think we don't take care of it. And besides, I don't care about girls right now, I don't want to be around those college girls, they can be kinda scary,"

 

"AGH!!" Zac yelled as he got up from his chair and then grabbed a towel to clean his face, and then cleaned the key board in case some of the Colgane got on it. He then gave Zander a cold look, "Were you abused as a child or something?!" Zac asked as he went back to work,

"And I always quote that so you get annoyed, because you anno me, circle of life," Zac sated, and as the player walked out of the dorm, he muttered, "Dickhead,"

 

Alexis walked into the college building. It was of great size and her heart quickened with each passing step. Not that she was worried or scared, but that this was a new start and she could already feel the rage building up inside her from the other shrieking females. She rolled her eyes behind her Ariel red bangs and flipped her jet black hair before heading down a hallway she thought her dorm room was down.

Looking up and down the hallway, looking at door signs and numbers and her small map, she was able to find her room. She slipped the card-which was known as the room key- and slipped inside the room. Once inside she started to set up her side accordingly. She propped up black lace curtains over the window. She set up one of her black candelabras on the table next to her bed. She quickly unraveled her black sheets and comforter and flowed them out gently over the mattress. Next she added the top blanket with the red lace. She sighed and began to put her clothes into the drawers. Once done, she slipped on her Black Veil Brides hoodie over her black tank top and walked out of the room, her side bag on her shoulder.

She wore her hair parted to one side, obviously her Ariel red bangs drifting over her face. She just got her industrial piercing so she had to clip her hair back away from her right ear, which was a pain also. She also wore her Devil Star dangling earrings and her Batman gauges she got at Hot Topic. They weren't really big, but it was sort of noticeable when she wasn't wearing them. She also wore a black Spider ring on her right hand to reference a book she was madly in love with. Currently she is reading the series over for the ninth time, the series never gets old.

 

Zac had decided to get out of his dorm to go get something to eat, only to find new students. He noticed some girls and quickly went off to find some place to eat. But all his luck, he had to walk pass Zander and some girl. Hopefully, he didnt notice...

 

Alexis walked into the "lounge area." She kept to herself finding a chair to land on so she could play a few games on her iPod before she went off into the the school finding all her classes so she knew where they were even at. It was quiet chatty, and normally Alexis would have hated that, but something just seemed different about today than it did any other day.

As she walked by a few groups she over heard a few lines in conversation.

"Man, he is so gorgeous!" A blond girl shrieked to a brunette holding her phone to her chest.

She was obviously star struck over some guy she had just met, and her other two friends seemed to be annoyed by her sudden behavior, but nodded and smiled at her. Stealing the good few seconds for an eye roll.

It wasn't until she saw a guy and a girl sitting at the bar area. She had colorful like hair and she was stunningly beautiful. But Alexis tried not to get herself down already this year with the other, obviously, better looking females. She would soon realize her grades to suffer and her motivation running low, so she sighed and told herself how amazingly awesome she was.

She walked to an actual lounge section and sat on one of the chair. It was rather comfy, but she sat gently and with manner. Obviously her appearance would get people thinking she were a trouble maker, and she was, if you got on her bad side, but she hope maybe she could try differently this year and to actually make her family proud.

When Alexis sat on the chair she put her jet black hair into a mess bun and let a few strands of it fall on the right side of her face as her Ariel red bangs flowed over her left shoulder. She slid out her white iPhone from her Black Veil Brides hoodie and unlocked it, slipping her left headphone and turning on her music low. She decided it would be good to check her Facebook, but then again, she didn't feel the need to, as she were surely to find people egging her on to do bad things. Thats probably the main drawback in hanging with the wrong crowd, whenever you try to do good things, the group brings you back to the bad where you once were. Well this time, Alexis was going to try with all her might to do good.

But ... it might be a difficult challenge.

 

Alright, he didnt notice me, that's goo-

"Zacy!"

OH FOR THE LOVE OF THE GAME!!!

Zac backed up and saw Zander and the girl, "H-hello, I'm Zac and I should be leaving now," Zac said as he turned around, but then quickly tripped. He got up and saw the two and gave an awkward smile, "Hehehe. I'll get going now,"

 

Alexis looked up when someone screamed out to another person, she was hoping that there were going to be a fight, but then again, she didn't feel the need to stick around to watch another brawl in a school. She saw a guy fall to the ground and at first she thought that other guy had pushed him, but she quickly noticed that he tripped. She chuckled a bit, but feeling really bad for embarrassing himself in front of a hell of a lot of people.

Some standby-ers, laughed and some giggled to themselves. So, this is how college is going to be.. Alexis thought to herself. It was stupid how mean people can be now, but then she looked at herself and she thought she was mean herself, but no one knew her here, so it would be easier to change her ways and be a better person, all-in-all.

Alexis thought to herself to see if the boy who fell was alright, but then again, he could have been mean and she didn't feel like having to be laughed at also. She looked at him, and then quickly drew her attention back to her iPod when she thought he was going to look back at her, she didn't want to already seem like a freak. As if her appearance didn't already ruin it.

 

Soon Alex arrived and they pulled in front of her dorm building. As her very large family got out they all helped beginning to carry in her stuff. She was the first to walk into the building. The first room was a basic sitting room with an office. Alex made her way over to the office picking up her room key. Room 31-A.

Her family made their way upstairs to the correct room. The building was split with two wings. The A rooms were for girls the B rooms were boys. When Alex and her family got up to the third floor Alex took a second as they moved to the A wing to look in the large lounge area as several students sat around. Alex took note also of a small conference room and a decent kitchen.

"I found it!" Alex's mother exclaimed as Alex fought through her family to the door inserting the key. She pushed open the door and looked inside the room.

The room was quite large. There were two very large closets right when you walked in with additional drawers and cabinet space. She walked in and took note of two beds against the walls, two desks against the walls and two drawers. She turned and looked to the right side and noticed her roommate had already arrived and moved in. But that wasn't it and she knew what was coming.

"Oh sweet little Alex is rooming with a goth emo chick!" Her one older brother, Drew, joked teasing her.

"Oh be quiet I'm sure she's very nice." Sophy, her older sister said. Alex smiled but she was a little concerned on who her roommate may be. She shook her head though.

"Never Judge a Book by their Cover..." Something she's said several times through out her blog. Her parents dropped off all of her stuff and began to help set up.

Once the room was set up, Alex and her family stood back to look at it. Her striped color comforter laid on her bed with a white fleece blanket at the foot of her bed. Above her head board she had a bulletin board with photos she took and with her friends. It was a very modern theme she had going on for it but however against the all black on the other side, it wasn't too flowing. But she didn't quite care, she would figure out a way to tie it in.

"Alright sweetheart, we're going to hit the road." Alex's father said as Alex said good bye to all of her family. She looked back in her room and smiled. She walked over to the window looking outside at the amazing view of the ocean and beach not too far away. She was here, finally here attending college and soon she would fulfill her dream as a writer.

Alex lastly stepped out of her room and headed towards the lounge.