This is my second Naomily fanfic! I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I am enjoying writing it :D
All reviews and feedback are appreciated! :P
A New Semester
Naomi jumps as her alarm clock buzzes. "Jesus Christ!" She leans over to hit snooze, and pushes her light blonde hair off her face, grumbles to herself and drives her face back into her pillow. Minutes later her phone rings, "Fuck's sake! I'm up okay!" She hobbles out of bed and answers the phone. "Yes?"
"Good morning Naomi! This is your wake up call, so get you sleepy arse out of bed!" A bubbly voice, of clearly a morning person, chirps on the other end.
"Thank you Panda, I am up." Naomi stumbles over to her desk lamp and flicks it on, squinting her bright blue eyes from the light. "Jesus…6am comes way to fast."
"But it's MOVE IN DAY! Aren't you excited!" Panda giggles threw the phone. "So hurry up yeah? I'll see you in the lounge for the meeting."
Naomi clears her throat, "Yeah yeah, I'll see you in a bit." She drags her feet back over to her bed and turns off her alarm and makes her twin bed. "Move in day…aaaah here we go." She throws her arms out and stretches her body with a groan, and hugs the wall as she turns into her bathroom to get ready.
After a shower she is feeling more awake. Naomi grabs her name badge and clips it to her university housing staff polo collar, "Jesus this picture is awful." With another groan she shuts her eyes and takes a deep breath, preparing herself for a long day. She checks herself in the mirror and flashes a smile, "Hello and welcome! I'm Naomi. I'll be your Resident Advisor for the year." She shakes her head and rolls her eyes, "Can you be anymore cheesy?" She grabs her keys and heads for the door.
As she locks up her room, she glances down the quiet, empty hallway. Naomi walks in the opposite direction of the stairwell to the lobby (her room is close to the stairs, just a few doors away) to give her floor on last look before the new residents move in. She checks her bulletin boards and door tags with the expected students' names on them. She takes in the quiet and smiles, "Okay. Ready."
She makes her way back down the hall as a loud crash of the stairwell door startles her. "There you are! Come on Naoms! The meeting is about to start!" Pandora jumps with excitement and anticipation. She skips down the hall to meet Naomi half way and links her arms threw Naomi's. "Let's go!"
Naomi smiles at her dear friend and nods. "I was just taking a final walk through in this calm before the storm." She smiles at Panda and pats her hand, "Move in day."
"That's the spirit!" Panda says with a massive grin of delight as she starts the two into skip down the hall, with her blonde pig tails flopping about and her blue eyes sparkling. They bust threw the stairwell door with a bang and giggle their way down the steps. Several desks and chairs are set up in the long and wide lobby hallway of Smyth Hall and Phillips Hall . These halls make up 2 of the 4 halls that attach to the food court in the center. They are separate but share the lobby hall and main desk. The sun is shining through both sets of doors at both ends of the hallway, that lead to either residence hall. They walk towards the main desk in the center of the lobby hallway and hang off the counter.
"Morning Smyth/Phillips office staff!" Panda greets the 4 smiling students, about their age behind the desk. "Ready for the madness?" She giggles. Naomi just smiles and nods at the office folk, already exhausted at the thought. They smile and nod back, preparing for the chaos that move in day is. Panda plays with one of the hundreds of lanyards sitting on the counter, waiting for the keys of a student to be clipped to it. She picks one up and smacks Naomi in the shoulder with it and says , "Here's to the start of a new semester partner!"
"Oi!" A male voice blurts out at Naomi and Panda. "Move in day! Meeting now!"
The girls turn and see their ACD (Area Complex Director, in other words their boss) hanging in the doorway of the lounge directly across the main desk. They giggle and hang their heads as they walk towards the lounge.
"Sorry Mike," They both say in unison with a sheepish grin.
He smiles and shakes his head, "Panda and Naomi, what am I gonna do with you two?"
He follows the girls in clapping his hands, "Okay! Good morning all!" He smiles at his housing staff of two separate residence halls, 10 Resident Advisors (RA) and 4 Academic Assistants (AA). "I hope everyone is awake! It's going to be a long morning into the afternoon. We have chairs set up for you, if you have a chance to sit. Smyth staff on your side of the desk, and Phillips on your respective side, to prevent confusion. You will be called as each student checks in and receives their keys and room condition sheet. You'll take them to their room, open the door and grade the room. The student will agree or make alterations if they feel fit and sign the sheet, you will sign it as well. When you are done you will return the paper work to the desk, and most likely be handed off to a new student for another check in. Be friendly and patient, remember these are first year students…with anxious parents too." The staff nods and smiles at their leader. "Pretty simple, just a lot of it! Try and be aware of the elevators and stairwells, they will be packed of checked in students moving their belongings in. Check in starts at 8am-4pm, when things slow down you will be excused for a lunch break. Hang in there, it will be over soon!" He smiles and excuses the groups for the last few minutes before the doors open.
"I hope there are some fit birds yeah?" A boyishly handsome RA with sandy brown hair says to another tall, good looking, shaggy haired RA as they bust out of the lounge and hang off the desk countertop.
"Easy Cook, they aren't even moved in yet." Freddie rolls his eyes at Cook's eagerness.
"Jesus Cook, you're ridiculous!" Naomi laughs and joins the men at the desk. "Keep it in your pants until the parents go home at least!"
"Likewise blondie!" Cook snorts at Naomi. "I bet you are thinking the same thing as me." He smirks and wriggles his eyebrows at her. "That is unless you've acquired the taste for cock recently."
"Cook, stop. She doesn't want your Crayola dick, okay?" Freddie smacks him on the back of the head and laughs, winking at Naomi.
Naomi just shakes her head, "Nope, none of that Cook. Sorry." She smirks at Cook and smiles at Freddie.
Effy, a mysterious, beautiful brunette with piercing blue eyes, also is an RA, joins the gang at the desk and asks Naomi, "Cook trying to pull you to the dark side again?"
"Hey babes, not all of us live on the fence!" Cook interjects. "You can come into my backyard anytime." He gives her a wink and licks his lips.
"Whatever Cook, don't hate cuz I like the best of both worlds." She winks and walks over to one of the chairs on the Smyth Hall side and takes a seat next to two other staff members, JJ and Sophia.
"It's 8! Let's get those doors open!" Mike hollers at everyone. "OOOOOH! BATTLESTATIONS! OOOOOH! BATTLESTATIONS!" He tries his best at making a siren noise, and receives smirks and eye rolls in response from the now seated staff. Mike walks over to the Smyth Hall outside doors and opens them to the awaiting people. "Welcome everyone! I am going to ask you all to make a single file line at the desk and we will check you in as efficiently as possible! Welcome again!" He walks over to the Phillips hall outside doors and says the same thing.
As new students and parents filter in, Cook is already eyeing the females and nudging Freddie in the ribs. Naomi smiles and find herself doing the same thing and Freddie nudges her in the ribs, his brown eyes smiling at her blues. Panda, who is an AA, sits in between Naomi and JJ, the other AA of Smyth hall. He has fluffy hair, bright blue eyes, and braces and is sitting nervously, picking at his nails. "JJ, don't be nervous!" Panda comforts him. "It's going to be a great year!"
"Yeah JJ, you're never going to lose your virginity looking like a nervous little boy." Effy chimes in and she pats him on the knee.
JJ shrugs and blushes as he glances over at Sophia, a shy RA with brown eyes covered with brown bangs and long locks, who is sitting next to him.
Within seconds of the line forming in front of the desk, "Cook! Naomi! Freddie!" comes from the desk staff. "Effy! JJ! Panda! Sophia!" quickly follows and they all are off to check students into their new rooms. This pattern continues for the few hours of the day as more and more people arrive.
Naomi has a second in the madness to sit down. She sees Panda heading back to the desk with finished paper work and calls to her and smiles. "Take a load off for a few with me!"
Panda bounds over to the seat and flops into it. "Blimey! It's blinking' crazy in here! I've personally check in half your floor!"
"Really? I haven't yet checked any of my residents in. Weird, I've gotten all of Effy and Sophia's residents but none of mine. AND my arse is killing me from all the steps, how lucky of me to get the 4th and 2nd floor time and time again." She laughs and shrugs.
"Hahaa right, well at least you live on the 1st floor. That's one less set of steps than me being on the 2nd floor." Panda giggles and takes a relaxing breath before both Naomi and Pandora are called for check ins.
Check ins continue through lunch. Mike excuses Naomi and Panda for a break and they head off to get a bite to eat. They head into the food court that is attached to the lobby hallway and they see Freddie and Cook finishing up their lunch. "Oi! Back to work you two!' Naomi barks at the boys and smiles. "Things are winding down, but Mike said to send you guys back so we can take a break."
"Aaaaargh, okay." Freddie grabs his tray and kicks Cook in the chair leg and motions his head for him to follow. Cook shoves the last of his fries into his mouth and blows a kiss at the girls as he follows Freddie back to the halls. "Ladies…" Freddie smiles as the reach the doors leading back to the halls and pushes them open with his back.
The girls get some food and head back to a table and take a seat. They chose one close to the glass doors, so they could be seen in case they were needed. Naomi and Panda, too tired to talk, munch away. Naomi takes the last bite of her turkey sandwich and stops in mid bite. Her eyes catch a red blur through the glass doors. She finishes her sandwich and stands up to throw out her trash and return her tray. Panda is close behind her sipping the last of her drink loudly and does the same.
"Naomi? Are you finished?" A voice comes from the glass doors. She turns and sees Mike in the doorway.
"Yeah Mike, we're all finished. What's up?" Naomi wipes her mouth with the side of her closest knuckle of her right hand.
"Well surprisingly every last resident is here. They all showed up at once, so I'm dismissing everyone. I thought you'd like to check your last resident in? I hear that you actually haven't been on your floor yet to see any of your residents."
"Hahaha yeah, isn't that funny? Yeah, sure. I'll take her." Naomi smiles and waves at Panda as walks towards the door. "I'll see ya later Panda, go meet some residents and try not to scare them with your enthusiasm!" She smiles and chuckles at Pandora.
Naomi walks around to the front of the desk to find the red blur that had recently caught her eye. "Naomi, this is Emily Fitch, your last resident to check in." The office assistant smiles as she wipes the sweat off her brow. Clearly the office staff is ready to be done with check in as well.
Naomi chokes a bit on the saliva that has collected in her mouth as she took in the beauty that stands before her. "He..hhhuhhum..Hello and welcome. I'm Naomi. I'm your Resident Advisor for the year." She feels her blush spread across her cheeks, scolding herself for using her previously practiced cheese ball line from the morning. She holds out her hand towards Emily and smiles.
"Hello, I'm Emily. Nice to meet you." The bright red haired, petite girl smiles and giggles nervously with in a husky voice as she shakes Naomi's hand. She has deep brown eyes and a button nose. She seems shy and alone.
"Let's get you checked in, yeah?" Naomi winks and nods her head for Emily to follow.
"Anyone with you today? Parents? Friends? Boyfriend? Naomi makes small talk as they walk.
"Oh, no…none of the above." Emily shrugs.
Naomi frowns, "Oh, sorry." They reach the hall doors, "Did you want to take the lift or the steps? It's only a floor so I'm cool either way."
"Steps are fine," Emily smiles. They walk into the noisy stairwell and up the flight of steps.
"Welcome to the first floor!" Naomi says and smiles as she holds the door for Emily. "Let's see you are in room….103. Oh haha, Look we're neighbors. I'm in 105." She smiles at the coincidence. Other of her residents pass by and Naomi tries to smile at them but she can't seem to take her attention away from Emily. They come up to the door tagged with Emily and Arcia and Naomi unlocks it. "Hmmm looks like Ar…Arse..Arcia? Hmmm…am I pronouncing that right? Well looks like she isn't here yet." The room is empty and small. "Well, at least you have first pick of beds, desks, and dressers yeah? The bathroom here connects with your suitemates of 101." She smiles at Emily as she goes through the monotonous motions of check in paperwork as Emily pokes around her new room. "So, I am grading 'Good, fair, poor' on all the things listed in regards to this room. You can agree or make changes, but after you look this over I need you to sign here okay?"
"Sure, no problem." Emily takes the paperwork and looks it over. "Can I see your pen?" Naomi smiles and hands her the pen and she signs. Naomi leans down next to the shorter girl and signs her name as well. While next to her, she smells Emily's perfume and feels her knees go a bit wobbly and she stumbles a bit. "Whoa, are you okay?" Emily asks as she holds her arm out to Naomi.
"Haha yeah, I guess I'm spent. By chance I've had to check in almost all of the 4th floor and 2nd floor so my legs are tired of steps." Naomi shakes off her embarrassment and smiles at Emily. "Hey, so I'm free now. All the check ins are complete, did you need a hand with anything?"
Emily smiles at the friendly offer, "Oh, I think I'll be alright. I don't have too much stuff to bring in from my car. Thank you though."
"Well, if you change your mind, I'm right next door neighbor!" Naomi grins like a goof and turns on her heel. "I'll leave you too it then Ems." She catches herself as her nickname kinda slipped out and smiles again as she exits Emily's room.
Emily smiles and chuckles at her introduction to university living. She sits on her bare twin mattress of her new room. She takes a deep breath and exhales. She places her hands on her knees and pushes herself up off the bed. She walks out the door and shuts it, and heads down to her car to bring her belongings in.
As Naomi reaches the front desk with the last of her paperwork, she leans on the counter and shares her relief with the Office Assistants. "Well, thank God that's done. Good job folks!" She winks at the exhausted workers and smiles as she heads back to her hall and shouts out to no one, "I could use a nap!"
As She reaches the first floor door, she takes a deep breath to prepare for the name game. She heads in and starts introducing herself to her residents and learning faces with the corresponding names.