Dead wrong

Chapter 1

Bare with me! This chapter is like an introduction so it feels like it's dragging along but it's important!

Cookie
August 23rd, 2003

Hilliard University looked as polished and undeniably expensive in person as the 3D model did on the news five years ago. Everyone rolling through here looked like Ed Hardy and Mishka had a baby together and they were the unlucky models in the big runway show... lucky for me I was too poor to look stupid with them. I looked straight ahead pushing my oversized Baby Phat Butterfly sunglasses up and damn near strutting across the East gardens Cobble stone path to my dorm building Marked Shakur, I was late and my abundant bags and the lack of everyone else's screamed it at me. My ID bounced against my chest slightly as I walked but I didn't mind it because it looked and felt like a badge of honor when I put it on yesterday afternoon at my party.

Onika Maraj Fine Arts Hilliard class of 2007

I looked down at the instructions on my iPod touch reminding me where my room was, Floor three room four. The door had my name and someone else's printed on a small label that they'd probably remove after the first week or two I contemplated snapping a picture and looking like a dork but before I had the chance the door flung open and a blur of pink rushed past me a trail of a yaki ponytail flowing behind them ironically being the only thing to let me know it was in fact human. She was in the middle of some important phone call the way she was pacing the small floor meeting area, "Please don't start anything on your first day she doesn't know any better" I willed as I let myself inside. It was nothing over the top, but our room had been decorated with the school colors black white and gold everything was the opposite of the other side. The empty bed which was now officially mine was white on black matching the desk I had gotten months ago and sent ahead all my pens were black with white caps and my pencils black with white erasers. Right underneath the draws my mother insisted I have had been put together and slid right under my bed along with the laundry basket and hamper a file cabinet and an embarrassingly large box of supplies I remember picking out myself right after I got accepted. I began unpacking happy a stranger wasn't there to witness the fruit of the loom underwear I threw into the back of my top draw so they wouldn't see daylight until that dreadful week. She had a cute set of matching monogramed suitcases, they weren't necessarily expensive the brand didn't ring a bell, but they looked important anyways. Shoe boxes were stacked at the feet of her bed unlike mine which I had a hanging hamper for in the closet, whoever she was she liked her bling and I could appreciate anyone with good taste if her attitude wasn't ugly.

"yeah yeah love you boo" the girl said before flipping her Motorola Razor shut and plopping down on her bed. We shared a short awkward silence as we analyzed one another "I'm Onika but I go by cookie" I introduced myself she smiled exposing her perfect teeth and sitting up "I'm Lauren, my girls call me Lo, bunny or new new" she replied enthusiastically holding her hand out. She had a full pack of gold bangles on there that rushed forward with her every move I shook her hand and she quickly grabbed it spreading my fingers so she could see my nails. "Your shit looks so cute, you gotta be from New York they the only ones that has the fly cute shit like this" she gushed I smiled flexing them a little "yeah I am but I don't know where to get my nails done here. It won't be anything like home"
"don't even sweat it, when I was out here last summer my mom got me all the hook ups with the nail crowd around here, we can go together" she beamed dropping my hand
"th- "
"ALL STUDENTS REPORT TO THE NEWTON HALL OREINTATION BEGINS IN EIGHT MINUTES" a loud speaker boomed in the hall I jumped up looking at myself in the mirror, I looked fried. My curls were messy with hairs sticking up and my makeup had already been through the twelve-hour mark and needed to be washed off completely and re applied. I eyed the shower so badly wanting to jump in and freshen up before I present myself to the entire student body, but I couldn't "he gon have to wait you can't just tell a bitch to be ready in five" Lauren said putting a makeup bag on the sink and getting to work on herself. I bit my lip before caving and grabbing a towel from my draw and my face wash, after I was all fresh, I got to work on my curls until they didn't look so wild. I now had five minutes to get across campus, but Lauren was in no rush and I liked the bitch, but I wasn't waiting "I'll save you a seat" I said to her as I grabbed my iPod and left hearing an "m'kay" as the door shut. Everyone was going in the same direction, so I just followed the crowed until I found myself at the entrance, low music was being played and the main doors hadn't been opened yet Lauren had the right idea. There were drinks and snacks being offered in every corner I only watched as someone walked past me with an actual Beef patty and champagne cola, there's no way in hell this school is real everyone was as ethic as the food being served to them