I arrive at NorthBend after a dreadful 2 days that started with being yelled at by my brother Henry for forgetting to pack. Eventually I did finish packing and after a tumultuous night of filling my bags with shit and yelling throughout the house. I finally left the apartment at 2 in the afternoon, but not before my little sister River started crying begging me not to leave. God I felt so guilty.
3 years ago my father passed, ever since than my mother is working full time barely making enough. My older brother has been a shit show. Me, I have been working on getting my scholarship to NorthBend while Simultaneously watching over River.
Exiting my cab I picking up my bags from the trunk while wind slaps my hair around at my face leaving it tangled and messy, I hate when that happens.
After a long process of waiting in line to get my room assignment, keys, and schedule, I am finally able to head to my dorm. Dragging my suitcases down the hall I am tripped by my own fucking shoes, before I can get a handle of the situation hands grab at me and stop me from going crashing into the floor.
"Jesus Christ watch where you going" the boy who just saved me from embarrassment snaps. Rude but whatever. I look up to meet his eyes, but before I do my eyes travel along his body. He's tall as fuck. He looks down at me his jawline as sharp as a knife and his dark hair falling in waves just above his green eyes.
"Hello?" He snaps again and I am pulled back.
"Thanks for not just watching me fall." I explain blatantly, trying to get rid of his snarky ass from my sight (no matter how hot that snarky ass was) I push past him listening to him chuckle before he moves on.
Reaching my room, I fiddle with the keys and twist my handle to open the unreasonable sized door that leads to my dorm room. The moment it swings open I am met with two sets of eyes peering up at me. I give them a weak smile, praying that they understand that I'm awkward and don't know how to approach this "first impression" thing.
"Omg hi!" The girl on the left gives me a squeal running up to help me with my bags, Her strawberry blonde hair is pulled up into a tight ponytail and a smile is plastered against her face.
"Hey I'm Lacey"
"Well I'm Mae, and that's Thalia" she gestures to the girl on my left who looks extremely uninterested in this entire thing, her hair is pitch black, she's tall and thin. She looks like a fucking model. Rolling her eyes at me she returns to scrolling on her phone, great I'm sleeping next to a bitch.
Mae shows me my bead and explains to me the meal times and etc.
"So are you excited to start?" Mae questions me while putting her own laundry into its draws.
"Yeah, this is my first year at a boarding school so I'm definitely excited to see how it works." She nods her head.
After I get settled in she brings me on a tour of the building, I don't mention I already had one not wanting to ruin her spirits.
"This is the common area, it's wear we all usually hang out, you can probably join to if you want." She gives me a suggesting look.
"All?" Wondering who "all" she hangs out with.
"Oh yeah" chuckling she continues "me and Thalia along with some of our guy friends like Calvin, Kai, Blythe and Theo. We will introduce you to them later" Thalia? From the interaction earlier I would have never thought they were actually friends.
"On weekends some halls host dorm party's, and on Friday nights we usually go out to hang" she explains the whole social situation.
"How much homework do we usually get?"
"A lot, well I mean it depends on your teacher. If you ever need help my friend Blythe is really smart." I'll probably be needing his help a lot.
After walking full circle back to our dorm it's almost time for dinner so we all head down to the dinning room.
After food I come to the conclusion that I don't totally hate Thalia, she's definitely not super pleasant but I like her attitude. Mae was disappointed that I didn't get to meet the guys but she promised that she would introduce us.
I think I might just be okay here
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It's 7:45 when the alarm screams in my ear and I pull my pillow on top of my ears, praying it will stop.
"Ughhhh" I hear a whine come from Thalias side of the room.The exact opposite reaction comes from Mae,
"AHHH GUYS ITS THE FIRST DAYY!!" That alone probably woke up the entire hall.
Rolling out of bed and dragging myself to the closet I grab out my uniform. It's a plaid dark blue, black and white skirt with a button up white shirt ( there's also a tie but it's ugly asf so I leave it on the floor). I pull the skirt just a bit higher than it's supposed to be and than I tuck in half of the shirt and unbutton the top 3 buttons. I turn to the girls.
"How do I look?"
"How the fuck did you do that?" I let out a small laugh and look back at myself in the mirror. I decide to put my hair up in a loose bun, my blonde hair falls almost perfectly. Thank the fucking gods I look good today.
Before I know it Mae is dragging both of us out of the dorm complaining that we'll be late to breakfast.
"We won't get good seats!" She complains.
"Mae! It's breakfast not a Harry styles concert" I blurted out, between that and Maes yelling all the kids around us were staring.
Giggling we find our way to the dinning room.
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