Okay, Victoria. You can do this. Just go say hi to her. You can do this. She's not that great. Just go over there and say hello. Then, you can go back into your dorm. Just introduce yourself as her neighbor. She'll be happy to have some friends, right?
Today was the time for all Blackwell students to move their belongings into their dorms and get adjusted to the other students. Generally, people took this as a chance to make friends with their neighbors and anyone else who caught their attention. For Victoria, this was a day to try talking with someone. It was hard for her to be nice. More often than not, she would end up coming across as rude. Across the hall was a brown haired girl who seemed nice enough. Victoria flattened out her outift and walked across the hall. The door was already open, so she just had to say something.
"Hello?"the girl called out to her.
"What's your name?"
"Max Caulfield. It's, uh, nice to meet you."
"Look here, Caulfield. We're not friends and it wasn't nice to meet you. I could be doing anything else right now."
Shit. Why'd you just say that? What the hell, Victoria?
"Oh. Sorry..."
"I live across the hall so don't be making too much noise. Victoria Chase, by the way."
She turned around and walked straight back into her room. When she was in there, she groaned from what she had just said. If she was going to make friends, she should probably try being nicer. She heard some violin playing from next door.
That's actually not too bad. I should compliment her.
Victoria knocked on the door to the left of her room. A girl with her brown hair in a bun answered the door. She still held a violin and a bow in one hand. She looked at Victoria nervously. Apparently, people didn't appreciate it when they were studied for a full minute and a half.
"You sound like shit."
Fuck. Why can't you be nice?
"W- What?"
"I said you're playing w- was sh- It sounded like- Your playing sounded very t- UGH."
"Are you feeling alright?"
"Of course I'm alright,"Victoria snapped,"Why wouldn't I be?"
"You just seem a little on edge. I could make some tea, if you'd like."
That sounds nice.
"I don't want any of your damn tea."
The girl looked confused. She was even more confused when Victoria turned around and went to a different door. On the other side of Victoria's dorm was another student. She might as well try again. Maybe she could finally be nice to someone? She knocked on the door. A girl with blue and red highlights in her hair answered.
"Yeah?"she said.
"What are you doing?"
Okay. Good just keep talking nice.
"Playing a video game. Do you want to join?"
Sounds like it could be fun. Just say yes and everything will be okay.
"Hell no. Who do you take me for?"
"A simple 'no' would be fine."
The girl slammed the door in her face. Victoria was left outside, feeling like a jerk. She walked down the hallway until she came to a door with a girl in a revealing top talking to a blonde girl.
That's a nice shirt, but it shows a little too much. She can totally pull the look off. I don't think I'd be that brave. It's still a cute top, though.
"Slut,"Victoria practically growled.
"Excuse me?"
Fuck. This is bad. Just explain yourself. It'll all turn out for the better.
"You shouldn't show so much skin if you don't want to be labeled."
"What's your name?"
"Why?"
"So I know who to punch in the face later.
This is bad. This is very bad.
"I'd like to see you try. My family would take you down."
The girl rolled her eyes, but she backed down.
"Wow,"a blonde girl in jean shorts said,"You totally told her off."
"Yeah, that was so funny,"a girl with short hair and uneven eyebrows added.
The two introduced themselves as Taylor and Courtney. They seemed nice enough, but also seemed to enjoy Victoria telling people off. They followed her around for a while before heading off to their own dorms.
Nate: Hey, Vic. You up for a drink?
Victoria: I always am
Nathan, her childhood friend, was waiting for her at a bar. He had already ordered a drink. Victoria sat next to him and slammed her head against the table.
"What's up with you?"
"I tried to make friends today, but I got nervous. I started saying really mean things."
"Damn. You know, Vic. Some people like rude bitches."
"I did make two friends, but they're idiots."
"Wow. Good job. What all did you say to everyone?"
"I told the girl next to me that her violin playing was shit. It wasn't, though. She was actually really good. I feel so bad."
By now, Nathan was laughing his head off. He always found Victoria's adventures of trying to make friends hilarious. She tried too hard and ended up stressing out about saying the right thing. Since she stressed so much, she ended up saying anything to hide how she truly felt. For someone that didn't know her, it was hard to tell when she was serious or just trying to be too nice.
"What else? You wouldn't be upset just becase of that."
"I basically told the girl across the hall to fuck off."
"Oh my god, Vic. Your stories never get old."
"Then my other neighbor invited me to play video games and I told her off. The last was the girl down the hall. I called her a slut. Then these two girls started following me around. I guess they think I'm cool."
Nathan put an arm around her shoulders. "I'm sure you can get through this year. It's not that bad. You can still make friends if you try."
"I doubt it."
"Look, people can learn to love the real you. They don't know that you're just a big dork. You aren't this evil queen bitch. They'll figure it out."
"You know you have this same problem."
"That and we have our parents."
"They're assholes."
"Couldn't have said it better myself,"he said with a laugh.
The two spent most of the night drinking away everything that had happened during the day. Sometimes, all it took to calm you down was a heavy alcohol and a good friend. That is, until you have to find a way home. In the end, they decided to take the bus. They stumbled into a seat, laughing uncontrollably. People looked at them strangely. A few kids from their school stared in confusion. One of which Victoria recognized as the girl across the hall.
"Psst, Nate,"Victoria said in a whisper.
"Yeah?!"
"SHHHHHHHHHH!"
"Oh sorry,"he said in a whisper,"Whassup?"
"That girl over there is the girl that, like, she has the what's it called?"
"I don't know."
"Okay so she like has this thing and there's a hallway and she has a room."
"The room across from you?"
"Yeah! That's it!"
"YO!"Nathan called over to Max,"WHASSUP?"
"Um. Who are you?"
"I'm Nathan PRESCOTT."
"I'm Victoria."
"Yeah. We've met before. I moved in across the hall."
"Uh huh."
Nathan leaned back onto Victoria. The blonde girl just absentmindedly played with his hair. She started laughing all of a sudden. It was painfully obvious that they were drunk out of their minds.
"You seem pretty nice. Why'd you snap at this chick earlier, Vic?"
"You know how I get with new people."
"Of course. I've only known you all my life."
"Ooo ooo! We should take a selfie!"
"Yeah!"
"Hey, hipster! Come here,"Victoria said, holding up her phone.
Confused, Max took the seat behind them and gave a smile and held up a peace sign. Victoria and Nathan stuck their tongues out at the camera. They took a few different pictures before they arrived at school.
"Okay. So you aren't technically allowed in the girls' dorms so you have to go to your own room."
"Aww, but Viiiiiic."
"No buts."
"Can I stay with you? Pleeeeeease?"
"Fine. Let's go. It'll be like we're kids again when we were sneaking out to play on the playground with the other kids."
"Then we'd get in so much trouble."
The two almost fell over from laughing. Max decided to ignore them and went ahead inside. The two did eventually end up in Victoria's room. It was a little past ten when they fell asleep.
Sunlight came through the curtains of Victoria's room. Outside, she could hear students talking. The light directly hit her eyes. It was far too bright for her to see properly. She reached onto her nightstand for her glasses. When she finally found them, she slide them on and looked around her room. Nathan was laying on the floor with a pillow and blanket. Both of them were still dressed in yesterday's clothes. It seemed like they had immediately gone to sleep. Victoria was glad to see she had managed to take out her contacts and wash off her makeup before sleeping. However, she hadn't taken off her shoes.
"Ugh,"Nathan groaned from the floor.
"You awake?"
"Barely."
"I'm not feeling too good. Can you- Can you grab me that trashcan over there?"
Nathan passed it to her. A moment later, Victoria was throwing up. Nathan was a little better off. It seemed he was better with hangovers than she was. He grabbed her a bottle of water and an asprin after taking one for himself.
"You're a real piece of work."
"Don't I know it."
He rolled up his sleeves and cleaned off her mouth with a tissue. He wrinkled his nose in disgust and almost gagged at the smell.
"Holy fuck this stinks. Go brush your teeth."
She swished some water around in her mouth before spitting it in the trashcan. Eventually, she would have to do something with it, but that could wait.
"Not until after I take a nice, long shower."
"At least we don't have classes yet."
"I guess you're right."
"People are going to assume we slept together when I walk out of here."
"Ew!"
"I know, right? People like to assume things. We're guilty of that, too."
"They can go fuck themselves. I'm going to the showers. Distract them if you can."
"That won't be hard."
Nathan walked out into the hallway. He was instantly stared at. He began talking to girls, easily deistracting everyone while Victoria headed to get cleaned up.
"Uh, boys aren't supposed to be in the girls' dorms,"a girl said to him.
"Well guess where I am?"
For once, Victoria was glad that her best friend never shut up. He was a very easy person to use as a decoy. Everyone was always distracted by him, even when he wasn't trying. Inside the showers, a girl with her hair in a bun was brushing her teeth. She was the girl who had been playing violin.
"Hey,"she said, offering the blonde a shy smile.
"Sorry about yesterday,"Victoria forced out.
"What do you mean?"
Okay. You've come this far. Just keep going. You got this.
"Your violing playing is, uh, really good. I just kinda panicked."
"Oh. I understand. Thank you."
"Yeah. Whatever. Just don't say I never said anything nice."
The girl seemed to finish what she was doing because she walked out. Victoria smiled. Maybe being nice wasn't as hard as she made it seem. It wouldn't be too hard to make friends, right?
Okay so I was going to write some more of the Blackwell Ghost, but I got distracted and then this idea came into my head. I was like "what if Victoria tries too hard and just messes things up?" So I decided to write that. This is at the beginning of school, so none of the bad stuff has happened yet. Also, I live for nerdy Victoria. She's such a secret dork. It's great. Kate seems like she's not angry, Brooke and Dana can't stand her, and Max is just confused. Good job, Victoria. You're making everyone angry. If you have anything to say, you can leave a review or shoot me a PM and I'll write back as soon as I can!
