West managed around fifty pages of the book before he surrendured, tossing the book to the floor and rolling onto his back. Everything about it was so... Sad, boring and dry. Why couldn't they study something full of rainbows and kittens, something that didn't make West want to jump out of a nearby window?
"It's easy to suffer." West mumbled to himself "Harder to actually enjoy yourself." 

West lay still for a good half an hour, keeping his mind active by counting roof tiles, or milling over way in which this year would be different for him. He probably would have spent another hour doing similar things if there hadn't been a knock on his door. He didn't get a chance to answer before the door swung open and a girl, maybe just a little younger than he was pranced into his room.
"Yoo-hoo!" She cooed, like the two of them had been friends for years and this was a normal occurrence for the pair of them "Pleased to meet'cha neighbor, I'm Emily Dick, kinda like Emily Dickinson but I mean, there can only really be one right?" She laughed at her own 'joke', a shrill noise that made West recall old cartoon witches he had seen on television as a child. "I'm the door to your right with my roommate Alice, she's sooo nice the two of you will get on like a house on fire! So anyway, apparently there's this big party tonight for all of the freshers and I just [i]know[/i] I'll see you there! It's not a party without you!" And, with a little bounce, Miss Emily Dick bounced out of West's room, leaving West sitting there with his jaw slightly agape.

West's first thought was of that girl's roommate and how sorry he was for her. The second thought was that he was going to have to remember to lock his door regularly, otherwise risk intrusion on a day by day basis. As he walked over to the door, turning the lock and double checking the door was secure, his mind drifted towards the party Emily had spoke about and for a brief moment, he considered it. He was no stranger to those sorts of events, but more often than not they left him feeling more hollow than anything else. Whether this was from the party itself or from the combination of alcohol and other drugs he would pump into his system remained to be seen to, but West decided there and then that unless he had good reason to, he would not attend. He was here, at this University, to find something different and if he fell into the same routines, he would never manage it.

The second this though crossed his mind, his stomach growled violently. Honestly, he couldn't remember the last time he had eaten anything other than tic-tacs. [i]WWOWD?[/i] He thought [i]What would old West Do?[/i] The answer was pretty simple, food normally tasted like nothing and served as no more than a way of preventing oblivion in West's eyes. So, he stood up and made his way to the door and it wasn't until his hand was on the handle he realized something. He had no idea where to get food around here. Still, he opened the door and stepped out into the corridor, planning to merely meander until he found something. No sooner had his foot met the carpet, he heard a familiar voice calling out
"Yoo-hoo!" Emily cawed from a couple of feet away, apparently still on her mission to deafen everyone on the floor "Where do you think you're going?" She asked, bounding over to West like a puppy. West knew what the correct thing to do in this particular circumstance was, but he also knew he would regret it instantly.
"You wouldn't happen to know where the cafeteria is, would you?" He asked.
"Of course silly! Come ooon, I'll show you." She grabbed West by the arm and began to drag him down the corridor, to West's surprise she was a lot stronger than he had expected. The wobbled through corridors, Emily talking constantly about the people she had met already and the reasons she came to the university. The wandered through corridors for a good few minutes before West sighed and mumbled
"West."
"No silly, we're going east." Emily beamed, dragging him further into the labyrinth of a building
"That's my name." He practically sighed "I never mentioned it before." Emily looked confused for a second, looking upwards like she was trying to remember something important, then simply shrugged and continued bouncing through the halls.
"Pleased to meet you West!" She rounded one last corner and all of a sudden they were standing in the mouth of a large room, bustling with awkward looking people "Ta-da! Welcome to the cafeteria!"