Dogwood Academy
Disclaimer I sadly do not own South Of Nowhere. Tom Lynch does; I'm just borrowing them for my own amusement and yours. I however do own the unfamiliar characters.
Summery Ashley has never had a roommate until her senior year at Dogwood Academy. Now she is thrown together with Spencer. Side stepping happens. You know how it is. Spashely, OC/OC, Madison/OC
The icy wind stung as the students ran for shelter before the storm stuck the small campus. A lone girl dressed in her school uniform of a white blouse under a navy blue sweater vast with a plaid black and gold skirt, lagged behind the rest of the student body. Her chocolate curls whipped around her gorgeous face, her caramel eyes searching the students around her. Not finding who she was looking for, she lowered her face against the wind. Half way from her dorm the heavens opened the dam of freezing water.
Cursing under her breath, she finally made it inside the warm building. The lobby was brightly lit making the room shine from all the brass and sliver fixtures. Nodding towards the guards sitting in the middle of the large room, she continued past the round desk towards the elevators. Arriving to the furthermost elevator, inserted a key into the side panel, and pressed the up arrow. The silver doors opened, she walked into the box, jamming her finger against the round five, leaning against the back wall she closed her eyes waiting for the ride to be over. 'Stupid school can't even have stairs' the girl thought praying the ride to be over.
"DING!!" the silver doors revealed twenty or more girls throwing objects and shouting at each other. Dodging projectiles, she walked down the hallway towards her room. Opening the door hearing "Goddess, Ashley! You look like a drowned rat!" Came a voice from the couch in between the bed and pile of books. There laid Faith Knight, leather clad legs hanging over the arm of the couch, her raven hair pulled back from her heart shaped face showing her emerald eyes looking over her friends wet uniform.
"Thanks, New York for the update." Snapping Ashley walked over to the closet on the far side of the bed, "So why are you on my planet? It's not like you don't have the same shit on your planet. And why are you dress already dressed for a ride?"
"I have a new room mate. Again! She's turning my room upside. Something about my room being to well me. It's another fucking blondie. Goddess, why can't I just be left alone. Fucking hell, you get no roommates and I get a new one every bloody semester. How is that? Stupid fucking preps. I get the blonde idiots who never fucking stay long. But you get none. Not one." Faith continued, complaining about how unfair life was. Ashley changed out of her uniform into a pair of black hip hugger jeans and a white beater showing her tight abs off. "are you even listening to me?" Faith screamed at her friend's far off look. "Hollywood!!"
"Huh!?" shaking her head, "Oh, you're done screeching."
"Why do I put up with this bullshit? You get everything I want." She whined, sitting up from the couch.
"Raife does not want murder charges brought against me… Bad PR." Ashley stated, throwing herself onto her bed.
"Well too bad. I'm not spending another semester with blondie. Three fucking years of the same blondie. Not even the same blondie, it's a new one every fucking semester not even a full year. Am I that fucked up? That no wants to stay?"
"A fucking saint."
"Yes I'm fucking a saint." Halfway through that statement she started cracking up with laughter, rolling off her bed onto the floor. "What would a saint being doing here at Dogwood Academy."
"Defiantly ain't fucking you. More likely trying to save our tattered souls." Standing up dramatically hands crossed over her chest..
"Like we got anything left!" Ashley sarcastically shot back, "Feel better? "
"A little. So, murder charges, eh? Nice one what's the real reason?"
"Christine doesn't want any of my exploits being told. Supposedly, they cover up enough of them. " She replied back, looking far off again.
"So what?! Poor spoiled rich kid." Faith mumbled, throwing a shirt at the brunette.
"I ain't spoiled! GOD New York, you have so much more than me."
"Oh, YEAH!!! I get the roommates from hell…"
"DEMON ROOMMATE!!!" The girls yelled at each other quoting Buffy the Vampire Slayer, their favorite show. Rolling with laughter both falling off their respective perch. Neither hearing the knocking on the door.
"Hello?" Came a voice from the now open doorway.
Both girls stood up and stared at the blonde girl who invaded their world.
"Who the hell are you?" Ashley asked, taking a step forward, "And why the hell have you invaded my planet?". Taking another step towards the blonde girl, who tucked a piece of hair behind her left ear, her aqua blue eyes stared into the caramel ones, which shifted over her curvy body noticing the dark blue lower rider jeans and tarheel blue hoodie.
"Well, I'm Spencer Carlin. Your new roommate." She stated dropping the duffel bag that was in her hand onto the floor just inside the room.
Ashley's mouth started moving but no words came out. She was doing a great impression of a fish out of water. Faith's head bounced between the two girls as if a tennis match was happening in front of her.
"HA!!!!" Breaking the silence, Faith started jumping around the room. "You got a blondie!!" Singing it at the top of her lungs.
"Faith!! Shut the fuck up NOW!" Grabbing the excited girl by the arm making Spencer step out of the way, "Get out and stay out!!" Slamming the door, Ashley turned to the shocked blonde girl. "Sorry about New York."
"It's okay. I think." Looking around the room, seeing the piles of books, clothing, and stuff animals. "So where is my half of the room?"
"Oh, damn. Give me a minute to fix that." Ashley rushed over to the largest pile of books, grabbing a milk crate from out of her closet on her way and started throwing books into it. Within a matter of seconds, a bed revealed itself from under the books.
"Wow!" the blonde whispered at the newly revealed bed.
"I'm sorry. Never had a roommate before. If you want to leave your stuff and I'll have your side cleaned up soon…"
"No, please let me help." She interrupted, moving to help the other girl.
"If you want to afterwards we can grab dinner and I'll show you around." She offered, putting the crate of books on the other side of the room near the only visible desk. Grabbing the laundry basket, she started shoving the basket with clothes, "You can start with my stuff animals, just throw them into the net," pointing to the web above their heads.
"No problem," grabbing random animals from all over the room, started shooting them up into the nets. "So who was that?"
"Who? Oh New York. She's my best friend."
"New York?" Confused why anyone would name their child 'New York'.
"Oh, sorry. Most of us are called by their state or hometown, at least for the first couple of weeks. It's our way of testing you. Most people keep it as a nickname or people use it to insult you by calling it your newbie name. I use it until I deem you worthy of my friendship. New York does the same. As do most of my crew. So where ya from?" Ashley told her in one breath, moving the now over flowing basket to her side of the room. Heading back over to yet another pile of books which could only be a desk underneath it. At least that is what she was thinking, when she started shoving the items into a duffel bag.
"Grew up in North Carolina than moved to Ohio a few years back." Making a face at the latter part of the sentence.
"Ohio?" she thought from a moment crinkling her nose. "You're in luck. No one has the name Carolina. Expect you will be NC to me."
"NC" Spencer let the new name roll off her tongue. "I like that. So where are you from?" looking at the flushed girl.
Ashley continued to rush around to clean up the room, "LA. Oh damnit, My name's Ashley. Ashley Davies." She finally remembered she never gave the pretty blonde her name.
"I know."
AUTHOR'S NOTES So here's the start of my first fanfic… be tough… I wanna know how to make it better and keep you happy… I know it's slow-ish right now but I swear it will get better… Faith is based on my alter ego… She's me just more hyper… Sometimes… So PLEASE R&R
