the story of mary magdalene

iii

"I'm Allison, that's Gina with the ginger hair and green eyes, and that's Dayne with the dark hair and blue eyes," Mary's roommate says, introducing her to Mary's other two roommates.

"Dayne doesn't actually stay in here," Allison says. "She lives next door with another girl I want you to meet. But me, you, and Gina have this place all to ourselves. If you need any help getting around, though, just ask Dayne. She's been here since the second grade."

Mary nods, and the girls go back to what they were doing. They didn't help Mary with her things, or even acknowledge that she was in the room at times. But Mary was okay with that. She learned in AP Psychology back at home that it's normal for people to act like that the first time they meet you. It won't make them feel that they're annoying a new victim.

But Allison, Gina, and Dayne were different. They weren't ignoring Mary because psychology says to. They did it because it's what they're best at. Being rude.

Thankfully, saving Mary from the ignorance in her own dorm room, Blaine unexpectedly knocks at Mary's door.

"What are you doing here, Blaine?" Gina asks, quickly standing from the couch she was slumped upon.

"I came to ask Mary if she wanted to walk around with me," he asks politely, looking at no one else but Mary.

She smiles at him. "I have to unpack and stuff, it could be awhile--"

"You have all day to do that tomorrow, Mary Magdalene," he says, smirking as she hears what he had called her.

She nods, fixing her gold nose ring on her right nostril, flipping a piece of beautiful blonde hair off of her shoulder. She walks out of the room with Blaine, and the rest of the dorm room emerges with questions about Mary and Blaine.