Everything's Changed

5

Clarke sat in her room, unpacking her boxes. She had put her clothes in her dresser across the room, by the door. She had gotten to her notebooks and put them in the nightstand drawer. There were six notebooks. Only one was empty and the rest filled with drawings. 

Clarke ran across her pictures and she had an artistic idea. She moved to the box with her lights and found some clothespins. She put the clothespins on the wire of the lights and put the laminated pictures on the clothespin. She then taped the wire to the wall and on one side, there was the wire running down the corner to plug into the outlet.

She then got back to the last of the boxes which were pottery from when she was around seven. There was a snow globe and she had painted her family in it with winter jackets on and in front of a giant Christmas tree. There was a black cat on all four like it was about to pounce, and a sunflower that was rainbow.

She put the pottery on top of her dresser and then put her CD player on the desk next to the drawer. She stacked all the Metallica, Pink Floyd, Eagles, AC/DC, Def Leppard, and Van Halen CDs on the floor between the dresser and the desk.

She was finally done but there were the pills that were still sitting out. Clarke put them away in the bedside table drawer.

"We're back!" Octavia shouted as the main door creaked open and shut loudly.

Octavia and Raven walked into Clarke's room and they were awed by the decoration. "Oh my gosh!" Raven gasped for air. "This is beautiful." They glanced around.

"Thanks for knocking on my door." Clarke stiffened.

"No problem." Octavia chuckled. Octavia tugged Raven out of the room and they had turned on the TV.

Clarke laid down on her bed, knowing that it was going to be hard to open up to friends. How am I going to do this? She was clueless. Her mind was all over the place, thinking about everything that had happened. She was still in jeans and a crop-top.

Clarke finally decided to join the others in watching movies. She walked slowly to the living room. There was a fight scene going on. It looked pretty intense. Clarke took a seat on the other side of the couch.

"What are we watching?" Clarke asked.

Raven looked over at Clarke who was sitting closest to Clarke. "Thor: Ragnarok." She said happily. "Glad you joined us." She smiled and looked back at the TV.

During the movie, the other two fell asleep as Clarke watched in interest. She was really interested in this movie.

The movie finally ended and Clarke decided to leave the two to sleep on the couch. Clarke plopped down on her bed and checked her phone for messages from her mother or Wells, who she hadn't talked to in year but still checked to see if he texted.

Mom- How's your first day going?

Me- Good. I'm a bit nervous about classes tomorrow but it's going to be fine.

Mom- Good. I love you. Get some rest.

Me- love you too.

Clarke put her phone on the bedside table and plugged it in into the charger. She then laid her head down onto the almost fluffy pillow and fell asleep.

Clarke woke up around five am. It was early for classes so she decided to head to the bathrooms just down the hall to shower. She hadn't gotten toiletries yet but she was just going to rinse off. She grabbed a towel in the kitchen and a bag with her extra clothes for the day.

She walked down the long hallway and into the bathroom by the elevators. The bathroom was almost empty but with a few other girls in there washing up. Clarke figured it was early for others to be up but she was wrong.

She got into a stall and put her bag on a hook.

Clarke finished her shower and put on sweatpants and a t-shirt from Hot Topic. It was twenty-one pilots. Clarke really liked their songs but she didn't have any CDs from any of their albums.

Clarke exited the stall and to the sinks and mirrors to fix her hair. As she was walking, she ran into a brunette, not much taller than her. She had the most beautiful green eyes, as Clarke had noticed. 

"Sorry, I wasn't paying attention. It's early and I just you know." The girl said quickly.

"It's okay," Clarke said, walking past the girl and to the sinks.

Clarke brushed her hair and put it into a braid and left it.

She walked back to her dorm room and entered. Octavia and Raven weren't where she left them but they were in Clarke's room.

"What are you doing here?" Clarke asked as she walked into her room.

"We just wanted to get to know you by exploring your room," Octavia said as she was looking through Clarke's notebooks of art. "Love your art."

Clarke sighed as she sat on her bed, ignoring them. She put the bag down on the other side of the bed where Octavia wasn't sitting. She watched Raven go through her CDs and Octavia slowly turning the pages to her notebook.

"You're a big hit," Raven said breaking the silence. "Everyone is hitting on you."

"Raven!" Octavia said raising her voice a bit. "You're making her uncomfortable."

"Everyone in the group chat is talking about you." Raven ignored Octavia.

"T-That's nice. I guess." Clarke stuttered.

"Not these many people have hit on a girl since Lexa had come here," Raven explained.

Clarke nodded and the room went back to silence.

"I'd better get to class," Clarke said as she got up. "See you guys later. Don't look too far in here." Clarke walked out of the door and towards the main building.