Ruby Bell

Ruby’s POV

Students studying in Maxton Brainery are G for genius and because of that they love nights more to complete their pending assignments sitting in library or in their own dorm rooms. But they surely do not sleep before 3:30 am. It’s their favourite time to go to bed and sleep. I am too among these students completing my psychology assignment not in the library though. Psychology isn’t my major subject but like it’s not that I would leave it like a trash. My major subject is Physics while my minor is Psychology and the assignment it’s actually okayish to complete but needs a lot of effort to research the topic so yeah that’s actually a hard task. In case you are wondering what the assignment is all about. So, it’s basically regarding analysing research on a PLOS research article and the work we have to do in this is to compare a popular news article with this research article mentioned in the module and separately describe everything. It might seem easy but no it’s not and trust me when I say this, I love my physics assignment more than the Psychology one.

Oh and currently I live alone in my dorm room cause the one I was sharing this room with was my senior and she just graduated so for now it’s vacant. I am waiting for my new roommate. And I really pray to god that she doesn’t appear to be a very strict disciplined girl cause I totally dislike it and I am very opposite to it. And it’s clearly visible by the scenario inside my room. Anyway, also it’s a total lie for the one who says, to complete the work one needs to be productive and follow the right schedule. Well no, listen to me, one only needs a sufficient amount of sleep no matter if it's night, noon or even morning. Eat , drink water , take a nap if you eat too much just in case. And that’s it additionally of course do take bath whenever you get time. No need to show the fancy productiveness. A person like me gets demotivated seeing that instead of being motivated. 

In the meantime I also got a call from my father, I know the reason behind his call. He only calls during odd hours to give me a nice one hour lecture about how to live like a disciplined student and get assignments done as early as possible, not lagging it to midnight and so which I regularly do. I picked up the call, so as to complete the father-daughter talk formality.

“Daddy! I know what you are going to speak next but before you start just listen to me, I have a very long psychology assignment to complete which is due tomorrow only so it’s a request that please don’t take this call as a 1 hour lecture session. Or I will be really doomed tomorrow.” I said in one go cause if I had stopped in the middle my daddy would have not let me complete my sentence.

“Ruby stop, I didn’t call you today to tell you the importance of discipline, it’s that I am worried about your health, pay attention to it, eat healthy and sleep properly without any stress in mind.”

“Daddy what’s the difference? You just didn’t add a discipline word but used synonyms of it. It’s all the same and I am fine , eating healthy, drinking water, and sleeping.” I said getting annoyed.

“Ruby, I am serious. Please, dear. How are you eating healthy while drinking too much coffee?”

“Daddy you are talking about eating and I drink coffee. It's not the same again. I guess you are ageing, that’s why you are mixing up everything.”

“Okay Ruby stop now. It’s not funny, tell me about your new roommate!”

“There is no one for now daddy, when I get a new roommate I will surely inform you first.”

“I hope she be the most disciplined roommate you had till now.”

“Let’s see daddy and I hope it never gets true. Goodnight, sleep well and wish mumma too from my side.”

“Sure, Goodnight Ruby take care and inform me if you get into any trouble.”

“Will do Daddy!”

And here, I ended the call thankfully this time it wasn't an one hour session on discipline. Also, lemme tell you that our psychology professor is so kind enough that she told us to do the assignment in pen paper mode and you know what that means? A huge trouble because it’s not physics it’s psychology, a very theory heavy subject. Writing everything is so painful for me. Typing is far better. I have got dents on my forefinger and thumb because of continuous writing and not to mention the ink that had messed up on my palm. I am surely going to have marks with this for at least a day. I hate it, I don’t know why this cruel professor doesn’t let us use our laptop to type out and send her the assignment. 

It was around 1:45 a.m. when someone knocked on the door. I kept the pen down on the notebook and shifted my chair little back so that I could have a little space to get up. 

Opening the door , my sight was caught by one of my college student from physics class.

“Hey Ruby, Sorry to disturb you but I need help with some questions, I can’t understand it lol. Though, I tried solving it many times.”

“Hey Clara Right? Sure come inside.”

“Yep, thanks.”

I didn’t hate it that she came to me personally to clear her doubt but dude doesn’t she know that tomorrow is the psychology assignment due date. Like it’s so famous among every student in Maxton as the majority opt for this, it’s another fact that some take it as major while some as minor. But still it doesn’t change my statement. Nevermind I will explain to her quickly and get back again to my writing. 

“Do you know that you are going to share this room with the new transfer student? And that too he is a boy?”

WHAT?

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