Chapter One: Preparation

Alicia Cavanaugh was a mess, preparing for one of her worst nightmares: Orientation.

She had never understood the need or the sensibility of having one hundred competitive law students get to know one another before classes start through pointless activities. They would all get to know one another whilst competing in class. That's when you really see people's most honest self's, competing for hierarchy above others.

"You cannot honestly think you're going to your college orientation in that?" Owen, Alicia's brother said giving her a look of disapproval. The kind of look that Alicia was constantly giving him. Alicia rolled her eyes.

"Since when have you been all about fashion?" Alicia scoffed, crossing her arms whilst looking Owen up and down from head to toe. Owen was wearing skinny jeans with the legs slightly flared, his top was plain black, over the top of the shirt he wore a red and black waist coat.

"Since you decided to wear that!" He walked into her bedroom which was immaculate apart from the pile of disregarded clothing building up on her clean cream sheets.

"Why is your wardrobe so business like? Do you not have anything even a little bit slutty?" Owen said looking through all her clothing. Alicia turned around, shocked at her brothers words. Well, she wasn't really, Owen is Owen after all.

"No I do not!" She slaps his arm hard, "I'm here to learn how to be a lawyer, not to have a good time."

"But I hear the male law students are particularly nice at Georgetown.." Owen teases making Alicia once again roll her eyes.

"Instead of trying to tease me, could you actually be helpful and help me choose what I have to wear to this pointless orientation?" Alicia sighs put her hands on her temples.

She sits down on the bed, giving up.

Owen moves his hand through the piles of clothes and finds a white blouse which did show a bit of clevage. Well, it was the most he would find in Alicia's very anti- casual or slutty wardrobe.

He picks up a pair of light blue skin tight jeans that were the only pair of jeans he could find. "Here, try this"

After much deliberation, Alicia decided against the top and jeans and goes for long black business trousers with a Cotten blouse which doesn't show any clevage at all. The trousers could just be classed as stylish as soon as Alicia tucked her blouse into them.

Owen smiled sadly at his sister. As soon as he showed her the outifit she refused to wear it based on it showing to much of her skin, and exposing her too much. He cared so much for his sister, he hated to see how insecure she was about herself . He hoped that College would change her for the better.

"Ready?" He asked her. Alicia turned to him and breathed in deeply.

"As ready as I'll ever be" Alicia looks at her self one more time in the mirror, tying her long, straight brown hair into a slick bun and walks out fo her room. She grabs her bag, keys and book and turns to give Owen a hug.

"I'll see you soon sis" Owen says giving her a kiss on the cheek.

"Call me and let me know how things go with Danny okay?"

"I will I promise, she says she loves me so it can't be that difficult can it?" Alicia smiles at her brother as she leaves her apartment, turning one way towards Orientation while Owen turns the other way to Danny.

Both of them facing obstacles that made them more nervous than ever.