From Across The Hall – 26

The map is more than necessary.

Ruben has never been to the university before. It is a huge, sprawling complex of a place, that without his hand-drawn map would leave him feeling daunted and thoroughly lost.

He finds Sam after only a few minutes of searching for him, the smell of paint and other art mediums hitting his nostrils the second he steps into the room.

“You made it,” Sam says with an enthusiastic smile as he stands up from the desk he’d been working at when Ruben came in.

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