Infinity Born UNEDITED

The Fight~ Chapter 6

  My arm still stings when I get to my dorm.

  I find three bunk-beds and two small beds scattered crazily around the room, along with teenagers laughing in a circle playing with a deck of cards.

  "To what do I owe the occasion Phlox?" I hear a familiar voice and turn to find Xander throwing knives at a target on the wall, he throws one in my direction and without controlling it my arm flies out catching it in mid-air.

  "Try me." I say sternly.

  Did I seriously just catch a knife in mid-air?

  "Good reflexes." He smirks.

  I throw the knife back at him, but it boomerangs and hits the target dead center.

  "What?" I question what just happened.

  "Try me." He smiles.

  "Okay, was that me or you?" I start to grow confused.

  "I see you got a tattoo." He smiles.

  "Yeah. What's it to ya?" I ask bouncing on my heals.

  "Nothing. Just noticed."

  "Hi I am Celeste." A body appears in front of me, hand out and ready for a shake.

  "Phlox." I take in the girls blonde hair and blue eyes, she has big lips that are curved into a smile revealing shiny white teeth.

  "Well Phlox welcome to our dorm! You can bunk with me, although I already called top!" She pouts innocently.

  "It's fine I slept on the top bunk my whole life! I am good!" I smile nervously as she leads me towards our bunk.

  Everyone ducks when I walk by...

  "Hover-cart halt!" I say quickly it stops before it can do any damage, "Sorry!"

  "Nice going skinny!" Xander laughs.

  Everyone always points out two characteristics about me:

  I am tall, and I am skinny.

  For a second I think back to Celeste standing in front of me and I distinctly remember looking up to make eye contact, well that is a first.

  "Hold the applause!" I hear someone one say as the door slams shut, "I am here to rescue you all!" 

  Alicia walks through the door holding a bottle with one hand and making funny gestures with the other.

  I realize after several gibberish sentences coming out of her mouth and the foul stench of her breath, she is drunk. How did that happen in the twenty minutes we were separated.

  Alcohol was banished from Inquisitive and Bright but the Valiant seemed to not mind people running around woozy and puking at every chance they got.

  I unpack my belongings just in time for dinner and am proud of my new black comforter and polka dot pillow case Alicia bought me while we were shopping.

  I folded my new clothes and put them neatly into two drawers in the dresser next to my bed, Celeste occupied he other two.

  Being from Inquisitive I have thousands of multicolored underpants and bras, but I don't think twice about leaving them in a white plastic portable drawer set under my bed, along with socks and my slippers.

  Celeste mumbles on and on about life back in Bright, as we walk towards the cafeteria.

  "You are from Bright?" this is the only thing I have said all night since our talk earlier.