Holly! The Rag doll and the Human girl

Chapter 5: Meet Mel, Kyle and Rita

   When the girls went through the gate, they saw with amazement and fascination as they saw the whole campus with some places. Some students are seen hanging out and the university is a mix of Emory University with the University of California and Carnegie Mellon University. They walked as two girls, who are chatting, saw Holly walking with her friends. One is a brunette and the other is a redhead.

"Look, Aubrey! It's Holly!" exclaimed the redhead, named Audrey.

"Holly! Hey! Holly!" said Aubrey.

"Oh, hey." Holly greeted them as she had put her hands in her skirt pocket. "I was on my way to be registered in the campus."

"Before you go, give me an autograph, please?" Audrey begged.

Moments later, Holly gave the duo an autograph and signed her own name in two sheets of paper. The rag doll and her friends resumed their way to be registrated. They arrived at the registration hall where they officially became college students for the first time. The girls, after becoming students, were amazed by the buildings and stuff.

"Girl, I can tell ya, this place is like a student village, yo!" remarked Portia.

"Sometimes, people love this place after all." said Bailey as a frisbee appeared from nowhere and almost had hit her. "Whoa!"

"Sorry!" said a young boy.

The girls started to walk as they saw other students. With a smile on their face, they looked at many trees and they are almost on their way to the Freshman Residence Hall in Whitmore University. When they kept walking, they saw a young delinquent bullying a nerdy young boy.

"What's this?" Lisa asked.

"Dude, I'm on my way to see my roommate, leave me alone!" said the nerdy boy.

"No! I am on my way to go to my own room, where I can be alone!" said the delinquent. "You're lousy!"

The girls gasped in shock as Portia pulled out her paint sprays from her pocket. "I'll take care of him, Y'all. Leave it to me!"

"Portia, wait!" Lisa stopped her as she brushed her hair and confronted the delinquent for his actions. "Leave that boy alone, dork!"

"Dork?! Who are you, newbie?" The delinquent asked.

"I'm Lisa Lawrence. Elisabeth Lawrence."

"I'm Kyle Caldwell." Kyle introduced himself.

"And I'm Holly!" Holly happily introduced herself to him.

Lisa sympathetically helped the nerdy boy to stand up as she wiped the dust from his body. "Are you Okay?"

"Yes, I am. Uh..."

"Lisa. And you are...?"

"Melvin Walker. Everyone calls me Mel." Mel introduced himself shyly as Kyle watched him.

"Sissies..." He said to himself before seeing Holly, "What are you looking at, Rag doll?"

"Nothing! I was just watching her and...Mel Walker." Holly giggled nervously. "I'm Lisa's best friend."

"Best friend? Then why are you wearing those bizarre clothes from the 50s?" Kyle asked, referring to the rag doll's clothes. "And that hair tied in pigtails?"

"They're trademark, all right? I wore them when I was a child."

"It was nice to meet you, Kyle Caldwell. But, my friend Holly and my pals must go to the Freshman Residence Hall." Lisa shoved Holly away from Kyle.

Later, the duo and their friends finally arrived at the Freshman Residence Halls of the Whitmore University. They went to a hall called Carver Hall, who is a nine building complex and has many beds for first-year students, rooms, lounges, and others. Before they will get inside, a tall woman in a green business suit appeared.

"Hello, Ladies." said the woman, named Gisela Bryan. "I'm Gisela Bryan. I didn't mean to interrupt."

"Holly Fitzgerald. And this is Lisa." Holly introduced herself.

"Ready to enjoy your college years?" Gisela asked.

"I am! Ready to enjoy it, madam!"

The dean of the college has let the girls get inside the hall where they are given some keys for the second floor. The girls went upstairs where a teenage girl with brown hair and orange eyes went downstairs after failing to befriend anyone. She is 13-years old and wore a red shirt with a yellow lightning bolt, blue jeans, white socks and matching sneakers.

"Hi! I'm Holly!"

"Gee, am I seeing things? No, wait, I'm not! Ha-ha!" The girl laughed before introducing herself. "Hi, my name's Rita Ellis, I skipped many grades, you know. They call me Grade Skipper."

"How many grades you skipped?" Lisa asked.

"I skipped secondary school, girls." stated Rita.

"Whoa...So skippy." said Nikki.

"Well, now that we met you, me, Lisa and you go to room 201, Verena and Mallory go to room 202, Nikki, Bailey and Portia go to room 203 and Maureen and Vivian go to room 204." stated Holly.

Later on, The girls decorated their empty rooms with posters, stickers and some stuff. They also put their outfits on a hanger in a wardrobe and a photo of Carl and Emma in a nightstand.

"Well, heh...What's your name again? Holly, right?" said Rita. "I listened to your music when I was 8 years old."

"Thanks, Rita."