Carter Miller, is a freshman at UNC. Attempting to run away from her small town in New Hampshire with her best friend Tori by her side isn't as easy as she suspected. With family troubles and her own, she has enough trouble already. That is until sh...
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I groan, throwing my head back in annoyance.
Stupid dorm walls. Stupid poster. Why won't it just stay up?
I have been trying to fix this poster for what feels like hours twenty minutes and it just will not stick to the dorm walls. Tori, my roommate, has been zero help during this whole dilemma I have been having. I press against the Command Strip and step back from the poster. I watch as the top right corner folds in on itself and groan.
"Why won't this stupid thing stay!" I yell frustrated. I hear Tori snort from behind me and I glance behind me. I shoot her a glare as she sits on her bed with one of our suite mates and best friend, Julie. They have been watching some Youtube video about this woman who eats weird food.
"Maybe you should try tape" Julie suggests. I sigh throwing myself down onto my bed. Putting this on my wall is useless. Even though we have been here at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, since August and it is now November, this poster has taken a few months to arrive because postal service sucks.
UNC has been my dream school ever since my dad took me and my younger brother to a football game when I was sixteen. Ever since then I have been wearing Carolina blue and white. I somehow convinced my best friend since elementary school, Tori, to come with me. She matched my energy and I loved her crazy curls. She also would always help me get out of trouble. Now, we just get into trouble. Once she decided she wanted to be a physical therapist and their Kinesiology department was stellar she was really sold.
Another reason as to why I wanted to come here was to get away. Growing up in a small town in Connecticut, was not something I wanted to continue doing. Even though my high school was combined with another town, it still was suffocating. The only real thing I got from Connecticut is Tori.
We applied to some of the same schools, University of North Carolina being one of them, and decided that surviving college without one another wasn't an option. Our parents had agreed on that since my father likes to think she keeps me in check. Even though she gets me into just as much trouble as I do. When I received the acceptance letter, my dad nearly broke a hip jumping for joy. My mom and brother were both just as excited.
My dad on move in day fangirled hard over the football team who helped us move in. I honestly think he was more excited to see them than I was. Afterwards, he sat me down in my dorm room with Tori and gave us the "athletes don't do relationships talk and be careful."
"I give up on this dumb shit, plus I'm hungry," I say looking up at the hole accidentally put through our ceiling. Let's just say our upstair neighbors are extremely annoying. Tori perks up a little from her side of the room. Her hair bouncing as she moves, her bronze skin shining in the dining sunlight coming in from the room.
"Dinning hall? We can text in the groupchat? Jules?" Tori asks looking at Julie. She shrugs her shoulders nodding her head. Julie is our other roommate along with Rae. We have a suite, which we were lucky to even get as freshman. Two bedrooms and one shared bathroom. Luckily, Tori and I clicked with Julie and Rae instantly. Rae is a cheerleader here so she has a pretty busy schedule but when she can she goes out with us. Julie is on the shy side but once you get her out of her shell she is one funny person.
