The Arrival
Putting her bags down, the blond girl looked up at the imposing buildings. Closing her car door and locking it, she turned and walked onto the campus. Everyone had left for summer, but school would start in two weeks. Holding the piece of paper near her eyes she tried to pick out the number of the dorm she was staying at from the rest of the small print. Finally finding the right building, she looked around. The building stood a little ways off from the rest, separated by a small grassy courtyard. Opening the door, she walked slowly down the hallway and entered the room listed on the paper. Suddenly something crashed and she heard loud swearing. Closing the door behind her, she walked slowly into the first room. Another girl was trying to take a box off of the pile, and something had slipped off and hit the floor. Wrestling for several minutes, she called,
"Hey there! Sorry I can't introduce myself right now. Can you pick up my paint brush?" Swooping down, the blond plucked the stiff-bristled instrument from the rug and held it in her hand. Throwing the box on the ground the black haired women yelled at the box,
"Well I didn't like you either! Sorry about that, my names Adeline. What's yours?"
"Um…My names Fumu. Why were you talking to…"
"A box? I do it all the time, don't worry. By the way, are you staying here?" Fumu could only nod. Adeline clapped her hands together and gave a squeal any fan girl would appreciate.
"Oh my god! We're dorm-mates! Here let me show you your room," Adeline explained as she pulled the unknowing girl down a hallway. Turning around to pull harder, she was able to get a glance of Adeline's features. Chocolate eyes matched brown hairs stuffed under a red berate. A green shirt hung over the edge of a pair of paint stained shorts, and blue socks draped over the edge of simple white tennis shoes. Looking at Fumu, Adeline began picking out her friends features. Her eyes were bright green, with a lock of hay-colored hair bound by two purple scrunches and an orange…thicker scrunche(for lack of a better word) in a ponytail. She had on a green and pink short-sleeved shirt with simple blue jeans and orange shoes. Coming into the room at the end of the hallway, she pushed Fumu in front of her to look. Not that there was much to look at. Five boxes were stacked against one wall, with various words marked on them to separate them from their brothers. The walls were various shades and aqua, turquoise, and teal. A mattress had been set up in one corner with some crumpled sheets and a small pillow adorning it. Several People magazines littered the floor.
"As you can see, it's not much. I'm still trying to get my room set up. By the way, do you wanna room with me? There's only two rooms and four of us so…yyeeaahh, you see that works." Fumu nodded like last time, and again, Adeline gave another squeal.
"So it's settled. Please tell me you brought a mattress?" The artist looked on with puppy eyes. Fumu nodded and asked,
"Could you help me with it? And please, please, please stop with the fan girl squeals. They're giving me a headache."
"Sure thing. And sorry about the squealing, it's habit. What degree are you going for?" she asked as they walked down the hall
"I'm going for creative writing. What's yours?" Adeline shrugged her shoulders.
"Trying for artistry. I wanna be a painter though. Writing and painting, they just seem to go so well together. Waddya make of that?" She quieted as they had reached the car.
"Okay, I'm going to pull this out of the back, so I need you to grab the far corner and carry that end while I carry this end back to our room okay? One, two, THREE!" She yanked hard on the mattress, and it slide out easily while Adeline grabbed the other end. Hefting it onto their shoulders, the painter closed the back door.
"Do you wanna lock it?" She asked
"Nah. There aren't that many people out here, and I need to come back for my boxes once we get this inside." Fumu waved off. 15 minutes later, the mattress was laying on its proper corner, and both of them were going back out to get the boxes.
"Have you gotten your schedule yet? For some reason, mine hasn't come in yet" The blond asked. Adeline shrugged.
"Me neither. I don't think they give you your schedule for another week. It wouldn't really help if you did get it because none of the teachers are here yet. They give freshman two weeks so we can get used to the campus. Do you have a job, by the way?"
"Not yet. I came from across state, so I have to stay here until the end of the year."
"You are going to visit it your parents over Winter Break and Spring Break, right?"
"Don't worry I will. I just won't be able to visit them every weekend, as my six-hour drive here told me." She opened the back again and put two boxes in her arms. Adeline did the same. Fumu waved off the last two laying at the bottom.
"Don't worry, we'll come back for those." After getting the boxes inside(including the ones in the bottem of the car), Adeline questioned,
"It's almost time for dinner. Wanna go someplace?"
"But I don't know any place near here."
"There's a Taco Bell right down the road. Please tell me you can stomach Taco Bell?"
"Stomach it? Girl, I love Taco Bell. Just sitting in Taco Bell…with tacos…and burritos…and those swirly things that taste like cinnomen…What are you waiting for? Let's go!" Fumu yanked Adeline out the door.
A/N: How did you like my first chapter of Airplane? I don't know why the hell I'm calling it that, so deal. By the way, all these characters are now going to be in gijinka form. Just felt like letting you know. To get the mood of the story, put on Kiss Me by Sixpence one the Richer and reread this chapter. Also, Sirica, Ribbon, Escargon, DeDeDe and even Mayor Len are going to show up(along with bunches of others)! I am really excited for this story! After this, the chapters will likely be in first-person, as I don't do third person real well.