Roommates

Chapter One

Megan P.O.V.


​  Christmas is only two months away which means we'll finally be off. School is killing me right now, and knowing finales are right around the corner, well, my poor head hurts already. Okay, maybe I should introduce myself. I'm Megan McCauley, I'm currently enrolled at UCLA and I'm a junior. I'm studying to be a manager for a company or something like that, I'm majoring in business management. I love my major, but sometimes I need to take a step back. I've been working myself extremely hard by taking summer classes and doing over fifteen hours a semester. Right now I'm up to ninety-four hours because I took classed starting from my junior year in high school. I've maintained a 4.0 GPA throughout my time here in LA.
​I'm from a small town in Oklahoma called Kingfisher. I only go home a couple times a year. Thanksgiving and Christmas pretty much. There isn't much for me back home. My parents don't care. They never really had much to do with me growing up. Anyways, enough about my distant family, I have an amazing group of friends.
​  Sophie, Fay, Danielle, and Grace. I can name a lot more, but these are the ones I'm closest to. Fay, Danielle, Grace, and I all live together in a four bedroom, two bathroom apartment. Sophie lives in a sorority house close to campus. From what she tells us, she's ready to move out. She stays over a lot, she's practically living in Grace's room. All of her things are pretty much here. We don't really mind though, I think Grace like's rooming with her sometimes.
​  We're all different in our own ways. Starting with Sophie, she's a charmer, and big flirt. Boys don't stand a chance with her. No, she's not a slut. She just likes to flirt around. She's around five' five, with light dirty blond hair and light blue eyes. She's a big sweet heart, but if you piss her off, you're on your own.
​  Danielle, let's just say she' loves to eat along with Fay. They will eat all of the food in the apartment. I have to go shopping every weekend thanks to those two. Danielle is a big softy, she reminds me of a puppy. When she's upset, you're upset. You can't help it. She's like the baby of our group even though technically Grace is the youngest. We treat Dannie like the youngest. She doesn't mind though. Dannie's long blond hair and blue eyes make her look like a super model.
​  Grace is, well, sometimes we don't know. She lives in her own little world at times but she is really smart. Her parents are extremely wealthy, but she doesn't act like one of those snobby girls. She's kind of mysterious if you ask me. She also has blond hair, but green eyes. She's one of the nicest girls you'll ever meet. She once organized a charity event all by herself, and the charity it's self raised over ten thousand dollars. She then donated the money to St. Jude's Children research hospital. She's an angel.
​  Then there's Fay. She's kind of strange but we love her. She's really smart, and kind. More responsible than the rest of us, but at the same time she's a goofball. She can be shy around people she doesn't know, but when she warms up to you she's the class clown. She's really good at drawing, I don't know why she didn't go into art. Her creative side is amazing. Like I said before, she'll eat you out of your food. One problem we have is we can't get her up in the mornings. She will sleep like the dead. Sometimes though, her mother side comes out when one of us does something that would be considered bad. I started referring that side of her as Mamma Bear. But, we are slowly corrupting her. She thinks we don't see her acting out, but we do. She's got dark brown hair that reaches her middle back. Her brown eyes are really dark that you have to look closely to see her pupils.
​  That's my amazing group of friends. We're not perfect, but no one really is. I wouldn't trade them for the world. We have our good days and our bad days. The stress school gives us doesn't really help, but we always pull through together. Our home lives don't help either. Like I had mentioned Grace's home life was complicated, but so are the others. Danielle's home life almost seemed perfect, but she told us what happed behind closed doors. Like Grace, she grew up with money, but her parents were all about image. Poor Dannie finally had enough. Fay and Sophie grew up in the same small town. The two became friends at an early age. It's really hard to separate them. They both grew up, I wouldn't say rich, but they weren't poor. Those two girls grew up quickly at early ages. They worked ever since they could get a job. They saved every penny just to get out of that small town. Sophie had a little more money than Fay. Fay worked hard for years and from what Sophie had told me, she never missed a day of work or school.   That's when I had come to understand why Fay was so mature. Her parents worked all the time and she practically raised her little brother and sister. She was a mother when she should have just been a rebellious teenage daughter. Sophie's parents had good jobs so she never worried too much about her life. Unlike Dannie and Grace where their parents were just ridiculous, Sophie's parents are kind and giving. Fay's parents are just as nice, but they work all the time. I felt bad for Fay, her parents had missed out on almost everything. I'll let Fay explain it to you though. It's not really my story to tell. Grace's parents were never around. She grew up with a different nanny for years. Then when she was old enough they shipped her off to boarding school. Grace's brothers were all they could see. My home life, well, it sucks. My father is always away on business trips, my mother spends her time away on what she says as a well needed girls get away. My father doesn't argue with her about it anymore because he figured this was the only way to keep her quite. When they're together they argue all the time. I know my mom cheats on my dad, I caught her once, and when I had confronted her about it she slapped me. I tried talking to my dad about it, but he was too busy flirting with his coworker. Some life right?
​  That's pretty much us. Well, besides from the part we all have our separate jobs, and like to pay for our apartment. Well, technically we all have two jobs. We all have a part time job at one of the major malls here in L.A. and then there's what we call our real jobs. Fay is an intern at writing company call Linda's Printing Inc. Her boss is a really you know what, but Fay worked really hard for her position. Linda's one of those bosses who likes to push all of her work on the employees. I tried getting her to find a better place, but with us all working two jobs, we've don't have time to look at anything else. Fay's dedicated a lot of her time to that stupid company. She's too good for them.
​  Grace is an intern at a company called Silverline's Enterprise. She mainly shreds documents and goes on those cliché coffee runs, but she has her own little space for the time being. The C.E.O. Mr. Benafay, and no, he's not a cute guy, he's probably in his sixties, but he is a very nice man. When Grace had organized the charity events Mr. Benafay funded her event. Because the charity was so successful, he's offered her a high position in his business as a manager of the stocks and exchanges in his extended business in New York. Of course she said yes. She had told us that there' this other employee there at the company hoping to get the position, but when the employee had learned that the position would be given to Grace when she graduated, the girl freaked. She had trashed Grace's work area and left threatening notes on her desk, word had gotten back to Mr. Benafay and he found the source of trouble. She was fired instantly. Mr. Benafay has a grandson that's about twenty-six who is trained to take over the company any day now. Grace said that he likes to do things on his own but when he needs something done and he can't get to it, he relies on her. She doesn't mind, but she wishes he'd get
​  Dannie volunteers at a local hospital. Her dream is to become a surgeon one day. So far, she's doing a really good job in her classes. The pre-med courses that she's been taking though have stolen most of her time. It's really funny when we see her walking into the apartment wearing her scrubs. She looks like a real doctor, especially when she walks in all tired. Her parents wanted her to go to school to become Politian. Dannie hates anything that has to do with government, so you can figure out why she chose something else. I don't understand why her parents where happy with her choice. I mean if your kid's going to be a surgeon, shouldn't you be thrilled about it? That wasn't the case with her parents. But she's happy where she is. She made a lot of great friends there, and I have to admit that there are some very attractive doctors there as well. She's living the real life Grey's Anatomy.
​  Okay, I know I said Sophie is a sweet charming girl, and she really is, but the thing to know about her is she's supper smart when it come to law. Her passion is law school. She's worked many hours in many classes to get where she is today. I thought for her, a lawyer seemed a little weird. She was always so laid back and funny. She didn't even seem like the type of person to go into law. It wasn't until Dannie had some trouble with a patient at the hospital that I found out how smart Sophie was. Sophie proved so fast how Dannie wasn't at fault and even caught the guy red handed. Let's say druggies are on Sophie's bad list. You never want to get on her bad side.
​  You would think that us living in the City of Angels was great, but we just scratched the surface of what it really is. We're only sophomores and already we have two jobs. We had promised each other that we would make it out one of these days. Five girls in a huge city, what could possibly go wrong. Well, we were all just about to figure out how much life could throw at us.
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New story! Here's the first chapter to give you a little peek at the characters you will come to know throughout the book.
Lots of Love,
-Hailey