Music-Appreciation

 Addie was fresh off the plane, fully paid scholarship in one hand, and a raggedy stuffed horse in the other to remind her of home. It smelled of endless grass plains with a touch of toasty barn. She found herself totally out of her element, in a crowded seminar room, with unfriendly, unknown, and unusual people who all seemed to already have made friends. She looked around innocently for a moment, before her eyes caught something bright red. It was a girl, sitting a few seats down from her, alone. She seemed to be confident and in her element, as if she knew the inner workings of this whole college thing. She looked over, locking her gray