It was 1999 and I had left my home county of Kent in the south east of England, to go to Glasgow University a year before. I'd gone back home for a few weeks over the summer but Kent was even more boring now I was used to the bright lights and big city, not to mention the Scottish accents, so I'd headed back up north in order to look for a place to live and spend some time with my Glaswegian friends before all the other English students came back. Niall, Polly and I were roped into being freshers' week helpers. Niall at 19 was my friend who loved comic books, hip-hop, dressed like a baller and looked like a young Jon Favreau. Polly was his tall, shy best friend from school and they'd come through to the same uni together. We'd bonded over a love for the absurd and alternative music, not to mention drinking when we should have been at lectures and partying far too long into the night. I loved them for their easygoing ways and fun sense of humour.
I'm Isla, although I have a Scottish name I'm not at all British except by birth; my mum is Greek and my dad from the Seychelles. I'm brown skinned and 5'6" tall, with big boobs and a naughty grin. I'd fallen in love with Scotland as a teenager on holiday and it had the added attraction of being 900 miles from my hometown. Life in Scotland was great and hanging out with my friends with no parental supervision was probably the best place to be. I wasn't getting much university work done though..
We were second year students at uni, so we knew absolutely everything. We were helping out at freshers' week so we could get cheap booze and so we'd have something to do before all our other friends came back from their holidays. The week was mostly spent with herding new students from place to place and clearing up in the Queen Margaret Union after all the drunken shenanigans. We bonded more over that week together than in our frantic first year, and sloped off to smoke joints with some of the cooler freshers, until the week rounded off with a great final party that all three of us chaperoned. We managed to sneak in a few vodka and cokes along way. A fair few. At the end of the night we helped tidy up and Niall's place was the closest, so the three of us headed back there to keep the party going...