New Place… I 72B

A courtyard, a play room, a study room different from the library, bathrooms, more rooms for the others. From age thirteen, he noticed changed to boys rooms and girls rooms, from age nine they had bunks. A large kitchen, a garden, dog houses, three dogs and two birds in bird cages. There was so much to take in. And finally, the common room.

So many eyes on him, teenage girls whispering in groups and looking his way, teenage boys watching him move across the common room. He hasn’t been made to feel this awkward and strange since his last class presentation in high school. Not university, no one really gives much of a damn to look at anyone going back to their seats. Wait where’s Marvin? He was being pulled to a free couch in a sea of different colors of comfy couches and chairs spread out across the large room all in small clusters, almost all of them filled up.