An earsplitting beep shattered the morning silence. Birds rocketed out of their nests in trees near the window of room 310. A hand shot out from under a pile of covers to shut off the alarm, cutting it of in the middle of a fifth beep. Five fifteen in the morning, and not just any morning, today was the first day of school and the beginning of senior year for the owner of that arm.
Viola slid out of the arm blankets and flinched when her skin was hit by the cool morning air. Knowing that Duke Orsino would laugh at her she sucked it up. Now when she thought of the soccer captain did nothing for the eighteen year old girl. They may have had physical chemistry but nothing substantial, two weeks after the debutante ball they broke up, it was mutual and the pair remained friends, a good thing since they needed to play soccer together.
The debutante ball was a romantic killer really. Two couples who had come to the ball together stayed together one being Toby and Eunice, whose relationship still puzzled Viola. The other was her parents. They had remarried each other this summer, to which Viola had to attend as Maid of Honor, in a frilly dress, with Sebastian as Best Man for their father. It was weird, but the 'traumatizing' event led to a gift of a brand new car for Viola, and guitar for Sebastian, from their newly rewed parents.
Monique and Justin did not work out, not that it was expected. Oddly enough Monique got together with Duke. And they made a, weirdly, happy couple. Justin went through a stream of girlfriends, all in sports, and, surprise, kept none of them because he was an ass.
What took the cake for oddest couple was one that formed at the ball. Andrew and Paul! Weird because even though Viola knew that Paul was gay she had never suspected Andrew. Apparently neither had Andrew because it was new to him. It was awkward for Duke for a while, but Toby didn't worry too much, and Viola had gay friends and was not phased. They were still together, and she was genuinely happy for them, Paul needed a good stable relationship.
In the matter of Sebastian and Olivia, there was no relationship. Sebastian had brought home some British rocker chick and only went with Olivia to be polite. And Olivia was not too depressed because she was in a good relationship right now. One with Viola, who stared at the bed next to her which held the sleeping form of her roommate-slash-girlfriend.
The thought of Olivia Lennox being her girlfriend made even the tired Viola smile. It had started with becoming great friends and transformed in to a romantic relationship at Christmas with a buzzed kiss under the mistletoe. It was clichéd, romantic, and clumsy from eggnog.
Their friends knew, as did both sets of parents, the couple had kept it from Olivia's parents, who were not very accepting of 'this thing' but they had found out and flipped out. To this day they treated Viola like a leper and pretended that Olivia was not dating a girl.
Snapping out of her borderline-stalker-but-accepted-in-relationship-staring Viola looked at her watch and groaned. It was ten to six, no shower before practice. She slipped on her pristine white soccer shirt and the red shorts to go with the practice uniform. She had, of course, made the team again this year and her mother, who was finally starting to get the soccer thing, had made sure that the uniform was immaculate.
Picking up her bag, her soccer ball, and a granola bar, before placing a kiss on the forehead of her sleeping girlfriend of eight months. "See you later," Viola whispered, smiling at the grin curling on to the other girl's face. Viola locked the dorm room door on her way to the soccer field.
Viola was still early and ate her granola bar as she dribbled the soccer ball. The boys were probably still rubbing sleep from their eyes in the locker room. Now much more awake Viola grinned at the boys emerging from the locker room, still bleary eyed as she predicted. "Morning boys," she called, accidentally slipping in to the 'Sebastian' voice.
AUTHOR'S NOTE: This is my first stab at femslash. Hope you like it because I love She's The Man and want to do it justice. Tell me what you think. Cheers.