One of the Guys. [ON HOLD]

Never Dance Alone

|Chapter Six: Never Dance Alone.|

Olivia.

After accepting her little challenge from Dean Rodgers, she was then handed her own set of dorm room keys. There were two identical silver keys attached to a simple keychain with her dorm room number on it. Room 537 was etched into the small silver plate.

Olivia and Janine climbed back into the red Prius and drove across campus toward the Callahan dorms. While in Dean Rodgers’ office, she was filled in on the ins and outs of Bradford Academy. Apparently each building was named after each of the founders of the school. It just so happens that the Callahan building was named after the vice dean of the school.

Somehow Olivia had managed to make it to the car without being stared at like some freak show again, but she wasn’t so lucky when she appeared within the Callahan building. However, it wasn’t Olivia they were staring at this time, it was Janine.

They entered the building as calmly and quietly as they could, but once the senior boys laid their eyes on Janine, all bets were off. Olivia—who was already tuckered out and disheveled from lugging around her bags everywhere—was pushed and shoved out of the way just so one of them could have the opportunity to “spit their game” at Janine.

Olivia was horrified to find that their pickup lines were just as bad as the ones she had seen on the internet. She had even caught someone telling Janine, “If you were a booger, I’d pick you.” Talk about disgusting.

After Janine had calmly and politely turned them all down, she and Olivia climbed into the elevator to reach the top floor. By the time they were actually in the elevator, Olivia felt her wig tipping slightly off to the side, her V-neck was stretched and hanging off of one shoulder in a sloppy manner, and her duffel bags’ strap had managed to stretch causing her bag to drag across the floor.

Janine giggled at Olivia’s horrendous appearance as she reached over to readjust Olivia’s bag strap. Olivia pulled up her shirt back into position, and tried, unsuccessfully, to fix her wig. Janine pushed her hands away and rearranged it for her instead.

The elevator dinged once it landed on the top floor and they exited together, looking like a perfect pair. When Olivia came out she didn’t look like she had previous. It was almost as if nothing had happened to her at all.

Janine and Olivia followed the instructions that Dean Rodgers had given them and walked in the direction of Olivia’s dorm. With each passing step Olivia’s heart beat faster in anticipation. If she wasn’t nervous before, she sure as hell was now.

She could only imagine what her roommate would be like. She pictured him to be big and muscle-y with scary tattoos and piercings and a bad attitude to boot. Despite liking a challenge, she was afraid that he would massacre her if she made the wrong move or said the wrong thing. What did the other roommates do to piss him off so much that he did everything in his power to get them out? What had he done to get them out? She shuddered at the thought.

She and Janine stopped outside her dorm room shortly after their exit from the elevator. It was eerily quiet inside of her dorm, too quiet for Olivia’s nerves. She gulped and shoved one of the keys into the lock with shaky fingers. She twisted it in the lock and pushed it open with a cringe. She held her breath as the door creaked open ominously.

She peeked in and was happy to see that the dorm was empty. She exhaled the breath she was holding and walked into the dorm without a care in the world, Janine following hot on her heels.

The dorm had wood floors and white walls. One bed was unmade with grey and white bed sheets strewn everywhere while the other was bare of any sheets, the only items on it being a pile of someone’s clean laundry. On the opposing wall across from each bed were two separate desks for them to do their work with little cubby holes constructed above them filled with books, magazines, and CDs.