As Pearl pushed open the door to her new dorm room, the only thought running through her head was gods damn it, why me? The chances of having two roommates was slim. So WHY in the NAME OF TYCHE did SHE get to have two? It would be hard enough keeping ONE roommate off her back (and keeping that roommate's things off her floor) but two?
Settle down, Pearl. Maybe they aren't that bad.
"Surprise!"
Two girls- they must be her roommates- hopped over the couch to greet her. The short one on the left held out a large plate of cookies. "You must be Pearl. I'm Amethyst. I didn't know what cookies you like so I made chocolate chip, chocolate, oatmeal raisin and snickerdoodles."
The other one- must be Garnet- said, "You came last, but you can choose your bunk first."
"Ah, thank you," Pearl said, scooting past them nervously and putting her suitcase by the bottom bunk of one of the beds.
"Ah, yes," Amethyst said, putting the cookies down on a little table next to the couch. "I call the bed-desk thing."
"Alright," Garnet said, sounding pleased with herself. "I get the top bunk."
Amethyst jumped onto the couch- a squishy brown thing in the corner, then grabbed a cookie. "Pearl! Get a cookie! They're homemade!"
"Right," she said, grabbing one of the smallest oatmeal raisin cookies and taking a tiny bit. As soon as Amethyst looked the other way, she dropped it in the trash.
"We even got our own bathroom! And I brought a mini fridge. I even plugged it in. Oh! And I brought a blackout curtain to go around the desk, so if someone has to stay up late cramming, they can just use the curtain and other people won't be annoyed by the light."
"I was going to say hello to the neighbors," Garnet said. "Come with me if you like."
"Yes please," Pearl said with an awkward glance, staring back at Amethyst, who shoved another cookie in her mouth. She may be cute, but why did she have to be spilling crumbs down the front of her shirt
Garnet paused as they exited the room. "That's our whiteboard," she said shortly, pointing at the door. "Write your name on it."
Pearl took the whiteboard pen from its place on top and wrote her name neatly in cursive. "Who are our-" she stopped dead as she stared at the neighboring whiteboard. The whiteboard was a mess of orange and blue- two different pens had tried to write their names across the entire whiteboard. "Jasper and Lapis. I remember Lapis from my high school, but-"
Garnet moved past her, and Pearl shut her mouth. Garnet knocked on the door firmly. There was a flurry of movement from inside and a short girl answered the door.
"HELLO? IS SOMEONE THERE? I CAN'T SEE THE CLOCK FROM HERE BUT I NEED TO GET TO BASKETBALL PRACTICE AT 3 O'CLOCK SOMEBODY LET ME OUT PLEASE."
"What is that?" Pearl said, trying to peer past the girl at the door.
"Oh, no, everything's fine! I have it under control. You must be the neighbors. I'm Lapis. And you are-?"
"Extremely interested as to why you're keeping your roommate handcuffed to her bed," Garnet said, tall enough to easily see over her.
Lapis's face went from bright and innocent to scary. "She started it."