Peridot's nimble fingers fumbled about the inside of her jean pocket for her new dorm key, creating small aggravated sounds as she did so. To what seemed like her only friend Amethyst was closing watching her over her shoulder; Peridot could tell she was trying to contain her laughter; she does this thing where a little forced restrain escapes her mouth every few seconds.
"Please stop laughing, your making me incredibly uncomfortable" Peridot finally confesses, turning her head to face her friend with an irritated look. She still has her hand inside her pocket trying to dig to her key.
"Oh common' P-Dot!" Amethyst then slaps her smaller friend playfully in the arm, which actually causes her to stumble slightly. "I find it cute that you're nervous!"
"And you're not?" Peridot retorts.
"Of corse not! You know I'm as tough as nails!" Amethyst rolls up her shirt sleeve in demonstration to reveal her huge bicep. "See what I mean?" Amethyst wiggles her thick eyebrows up and down in attempt to make her friend crack at least a smile, but all this makes Peridot do is sigh in annoyance.
"Ah ha!" Peridot finally pulls out her small-looking dorm key from her pocket, showing her friend with a slight smile.
Amethyst replies with a grin. "I think you're ready P!"
Peridot's smile creases into a frown when she gets struck with a thought. "What if my roommate is a total ass?" she contemplates. She lowers the key in her grip to get a better look at its perfectly cut fit and its emblem carved into its hand-held piece; the key made her stomach clench even more.
"Well, they can't be worse than me" Amethyst laughs reassuringly.
"No.." Peridot stares harder at the key, "That's not what I meant..."
"Then what do you mean?"
A small silence lingers between the two friends; Peridot still blankly staring at her key and Amethyst awaiting a decent answer. Peridot wasn't interested in making new friends; in fact she despised the thought greatly. However she knew that she would have to interact with her new dorm mate at some point during the upcoming year and boy was she not looking forward to it.
"Peridot, listen, I know you wanted to share a dorm with me, but rules are rules and we have to live with them" Amethyst explains, shoving her hands deep into the pockets of the sweatpants. "I'm downstairs in room 102 if you need me."
Peridot nods slowly, her small mouth eventually moving to form a tiny 'Okay.' After which Amethyst bids goodbye with a swift wave of her hand and a smirk. Peridot watches after her as she walks to the end of the corridor lined with dorms and eventually descends down the flight of stairs until her bouncy purple hair can no longer be seen.
The small girl turns back round to face her door now friendless. But she would have to get over that.Peridot shuffles her feet over to her dorm door with her key at hand. Once close enough, she flips the key with her fingers to make it match the shape cut in the key hole before forcing it in. She struggles to turn the key correctly at first, this causing her to have to hold the door with her free hand in support; but as she does so, the door falls open making Peridot collapse to the carpeted surface in a heap.
A loud snort sounds from behind her which is soon followed by eruptive laughter. Peridot swiftly lifts her head from the ground to turn to see two people standing at the door frame; two girls. One is tall and muscular looking. She's dark skinned with large fluffed out hair that comes just under her stomach- she wore a cropped shirt which flashed her impressive six- pack. The other girl was smaller. She had blue hair with a shaved undercut and had several piercings that dotted her face. Peridot could also spot tattoos creeping out from under the sleeves of her shirt.
"You're really stuck with this pathetic excuse of a human?" the taller one sniggers to her friend. Her friend cracks a tempted smirk but decides to brush off her laughter and step over Peridot's body.
"So you're my roommate?" the girl questions, throwing her belongings onto the bed that was against the ugly beige wall of the left side of the room.
Peridot sighs under her breath, "Unfortunately for you, yes." She then pulls herself up into a sitting position on her knees, brushing down her grey-used to be black- jeans. The girl gives Peridot an uneasy side glance.
"I'm Lapis" she starts with a curled lip, "And that's my friend Jasper." Lapis gestures to the taller girl who gives a prominent laugh.
Peridot's face remains without expression as she starts to collect the things in her bag that had spilled across the floor when she had fallen over. "Peridot" she states. This is soon after followed by a non-surprising snort of laughter from Jasper.
"Nice name" Lapis nods as she walks back across the narrow room to stand with Jasper, "Okay Peridot, just letting you know- I'm not gonna be around much. People to see, parties to be y'know?"
"That's fine" Peridot replies without turning to face the pair, "I prefer to be alone." Peridot collects her final fallen book before standing with her repacked bag slung on her shoulder. "I should be able to get more work done."
"Looks like you're stuck with a complete sack of nerd shit Lapis" Jasper closely tells her friend with a large smirk split across her face. Lapis snickers in reply but decides to punch her friend in the arm to shut her up.
"Catch you later Peri" Lapis decides to call back to her new roommate before pushing Jasper out of the doorway. Peridot turns round to call after them but decides against it with an exasperated look; instead she uses her free hand to push her circular frames up her nose.