The miracle didn't happen... You obviously didn't prepare enough for the lectures. But there is something positive...

The next day started with failures for you.

In the morning, you were in a logical failure in the lectures on the discipline "graphics technique".

Mr. Salazar was still extremely picky and strict. He criticized your written work, which you diligently prepared the previous evening. He gave you a low grade and again assigned you onerous assignments to complete written work for the following lectures.

"Damn! Why is this asshole-professor so angry with me?! He didn't focus on me this much before..." - you think, leaving the college building after grueling hours of lectures.

Stress and fatigue require you to find some way to relax.

You hang out with the dudes-students who live next to your room in the student dorm again.

To your surprise, in addition to the guys you know, a young female student was also playing the Sony PlayStation with you today.

Guys introduced her to you. Her name is Amanda Leinigan.

She was dressed in extravagant clothes: a black light leather jacket with miniature metal accessories (spikes, rivets, chains), jeans with slits and patches, leather boots, bracelets on her hands with creepy symbols (grinning skulls).

Her pretty face was covered with a specific, atypical make-up: dark purple lipstick on her lips, dark eye shadow, a small spider web pattern near her left temple.

Amanda's image was complemented by a large number of piercings from silver metal accessories (helix, nostril, brows... you even noticed that she had a piercing on her tongue).

As it soon turned out, this girl liked to hang out in the company of male gamers.

A gamer girl...

You personally met such a fact for the first time...

However, it would be stupid to deny the obvious - she defeated you several times in the fighting game "Mortal Kombat".

"Your soul is mine!" - she told you with a playful expression, shortly before leaving the party.

"A paraphrase of the famous phrase of Shang Tsung... What a show-off!" - you thought with a mixture of annoyance and surprise.

And one more thing: before leaving, she winked at you in a particularly mischievous way...

Her eyes are as atypical as her entire appearance - the girl has heterochromia (her left eye is green, and her right eye is gray).

After she left, you continued hanging out, playing PlayStation and drinking alcoholic beverages.

However, the image of your new acquaintance clearly impressed you and remained in your memory.

"And this girl... Amanda... Dudes, do you know if she has a boyfriend?" - you asked the guys late at night, before you were about to go to your room.

"What?! Uh... You mean "Miss Scary"? As far as I know, no - she doesn't have a boyfriend..." - one of the dudes answered you. The rest were already too drunk to say anything meaningful.

"Hey, why do you call her by the nickname "Miss Scary"?" - you ask.

"She likes all sorts of mystical things, horror movies, games in the same genre... And I also heard that she sometimes does cosplay - she dresses up as all sorts of creepy characters from comics, anime or games..." - the guy answered you.

So, you went to bed.

Now you feel a little better.

At least you had a fun evening, despite the problems with morning lectures.

And you met a girl today.

This is not a trivial achievement for such a shy guy like you.

"It's so good that tomorrow is Saturday! I don't have to go to these shitty lectures!" - these are your last thoughts before you turn off the light in your room and fall head first on the pillow.