𝑺𝑯𝑬!-𝘯𝘪𝘬𝘢 𝘮𝘶𝘩𝘭

THREE

Alexandrea sat in her room with her legs crossed, while her eyes were focused on her Macbook. It has been a day since she'd move in and she didn't officially start classes until next week. She squinted her eyes as bright color flashed her screen. "You need glasses."Nika laughed from the other side of the room. The two had been getting along since yesterday, turns out they had a lot in common. Alexandrea shut her laptop before looking over at Nika and laughing. "I left them in LA. I knew I was forgetting something."Alexandrea shook her head while staring at Nika.

"Sucks to suck."Nika pretended to frown before laughing. Alexandrea loved hearing Nika laugh, she smiled watching Nika's eyes squint upwards the harder she laughed. "What are your plans for today?"Nika spoke, breaking Alexandrea out of her trance. "Really nothing, I guess I need to fully unpack before I do anything. You?"Alexandrea said before getting out to her bed. "Nothing today, although we do have our first practice tomorrow. I'll help you unpack though!"Nika smiled before hopping out of her bed as well.

Alexandrea smiled before walking over to her suitcase that was in the middle of the room wide open. Both Alexandrea and Nika sat in the middle of the floor, carefully taking clothes out of the suitcase and folding them. "Tell me about yourself."Alexandrea smiled looking up from the suitcase and at Nika. "I'm 22, I'm from Croatia, I play basketball and I'm a point guard. That's the only thing I can come up with right now."Nika shrugged as she folded a pair of sweatpants.

"Tell me about basketball then."Alexandrea said, trying to keep the conversation going. "I won Big East Defensive player 2 years in a row, I broke the all-time assist, the single season assist, and the single game assist records."Nika smiled, Alexandrea eyes widen when Nika told her everything. "Don't tell Paige or Azzi, but you might be better than them at basketball."Alexandrea playfully whispered making Nika laugh.

"I could never be better than the both of them combined. They shine on offense and I shine on defense."Nika shrugged once she calmed down from all her laughing. "Tell me about yourself."Nika changed the subject. "I'm 22, and I major in Criminal Justice."Alexandrea kept it short, not really wanting to go into detail. "How was it growing up with Azzi?"Nika asked, she instantly regretted it when she seen Alexandrea uncomfortably shift. "I'm sorry you do-"Nika began to say but Alexandrea cut her off. "No you're okay! I trust you."Alexandrea couldn't believe the words coming out of her mouth.

It wasn't easy for her to trust someone so quickly, but the way Nika presented herself in ways others didn't made her different from everyone else. Nika smiled when she heard the 3 words come out of Alexandrea's mouth, she was happy Alexandrea trusted her already Nika felt like she needed some type of confirmation from Alexandrea. "I was born a year before Azzi as you know."Alexandrea started off. Nika nodded her head quietly while Alexandra continued.

"Our dad cheated on my mom with Azzi's mom, my mom and dad...they were never married but they were high school sweethearts. After my mom found out about him cheating she immediately broke it off with him, but she was pregnant with me the same year she found out about him cheating. Azzi's mom was fully aware of my mom being pregnant and she was very supportive of my mom. After I was born my mom tried to completely cut ties with me dad and keep him out of my life."

"So we moved from Virginia and home to Czech with my babička and dědeček. We stayed down there until I was around 4 and we finally moved back to Virginia when my mom found out Thomas was born years back. She didn't want to keep me away from my siblings so we moved back into our old house and I grew up around Azzi, Jose, Jon, and Thomas pretty much my whole childhood. Me and Thomas were never that close but Jose and Jon were adopted a few years after Azzi was born."

"Anyways, as I got older the more it was easier to see them. But one day my mom and dad got into a really huge argument which caused my mom to like completely lose her mind and she started acting different. When I turned 16 I was rebellious as hell, smoking and drinking every weekend, going to parties, and I even got arrested for getting into a bar fight. After my mom picked me up from the police station she went completely ham on me. Basically telling me that I was a disgrace and how I messed up her relationship with my dad and how I act exactly like him."

"Not gonna lie it kinda hurt me like shit you know? I was 16 going through that alone and it hurt that i didn't have anyone to talk to. After my mom yelled at me things hadn't been the same since, so my 18th birthday i packed up my life in Virginia and moved to LA and went to college at UCLA, Azzi was pissed that I moved without her but why would I move with her? She had a nice caring and loving family, she had everything I wanted. Anyways, I stayed on campus until I got a job, and once I saved up money I got my own little apartment and met my best friends."Alexandrea finished her long talk. Nika was speechless to say the least.

"Wow."Was all Nika could say. Just then Azzi bust through the door with tears in her eyes. She immediately walked up to Alexandrea and tackled her into a hug while crying into her shirt. "I'm sorry Andrea"Azzi cried. Alexandrea had tears brimming in her eyes before she started rubbing her fingers through Azzi's hair. "Don't apologize, it's not your fault."Alexandrea cried into her sisters shoulder while squeezing her tight. Nika took this as a sign to quietly evacuate the room and give the 2 their time.

yanni's thoughts...
here's alexandra's back story, also what kind of trope do you guys want this to be? I'm completely leaving this in yalls hands.