Cassandra- 16

Duke- 18

Anna- 17

Andrew- 18

Schedules

Cassandra- A-Anna, AN-Andrew, D-Duke T-Toby, O- Olivia, E- Eunice

Monday- Calculus 8:30-10:45- D, A, AN, O, T, E English 11:00-1:15

Tuesday- Economics-AN, D, AP Environmental- D

Wednesday-Calculus, English

Thursday- Economics, AP Environmental

Friday- Art-D, Free Period-D, AN, A, O, T

Cassandra walked into the empty dorm hall. It was 3:30 in the morning and it was clear that everyone was asleep. It was mid October and she had just transferred into Illyria as a junior. She had previously attended Alanwood Academy in New York but her parents thought it would be fun to ship her across the country to Northern California, completely ignoring Cassandra's plea to stay. Cassandra was a sixteen year old bombshell but that didn't mean she was a heartbreaker. She was sweet and shy, driving guys crazy. They had explained to her that the dorm rooms consisted of two rooms and one bathroom and the one she was staying in was a coed with a room for her and another girl and two guys in the other. She found the room and opened the door. She quietly closed the door and attempted to silently get to her room but tripped over something and fell to the floor with a loud bang.

"So much for trying to be quiet," she said. Suddenly one of the doors opened and out stepped somebody, Cassandra not able to see if it was a guy or a girl because it was pitch black.

"What's going on? Who's there?" a guy asked. "I have a bat and I'm not scared to use it," he said.

"Um, I'd appreciate it if you didn't hit me with your bat." Cassandra heard him close the room door before turning the hallway light on. She took a look at the guy. He was cute, no, he was gorgeous.

Duke turned the light on and looked at the girl sitting on the floor. She was beautiful.

"Um, why are you on the floor?" he asked. She looked at the soccer ball next to her.

"This." She picked it up and tossed it to him. "Next time don't leave it on the floor."

"Sorry. So, who are you?"

"Well unless I'm in the wrong room, I'm you're new roommate, or whoever I'm going to be sharing with."

"Oh, Anna."

"Yea, I guess." There was a quick moment of silence. "So…do you want to help me up?"

"Oh right." He helped her up and picked up her bag for her.

"That was a pretty loud bang I made, why didn't these guys wake up?"

"Well Anna falls asleep with her iPod on and Andrew can sleep through a bomb."

"Sorry to wake you then," she said with a look of embarrassment.

"It's my fault; I shouldn't have left the soccer ball out in the hall."

"Yea, you shouldn't have." They walked into her room and her roommate was dead to the world under a beauty mask with her headphones plugged into her ears.

"So where did you come from?" he asked as he set her bag down.

"Um, not to be rude or anything but I think it would be better if we had this conversation maybe when the sun was up. I kind of just flew cross country and I'm a little tired so…"

"Oh, yea sorry." He started to the door but turned around. "I'm Duke by the way."

"Cassandra." He smiled and walked out, closing the door behind him. Cassandra smiled and changed into her pajamas. She quickly made her bed, putting on a striped bed sheet with an orange feather comforter. The second her head hit the pillow she was out.

Anna opened her eyes and saw the back of her beauty mask. She sat up and stretched, her headphones popping out of her ears. She lifted the mask and looked at the bed next to her, expecting to see it empty. She saw Cassandra and screamed.

Cassandra quickly woke up when she heard a girl screaming. She jumped out of bed in her wife beater and boy shorts and screamed, just because Anna's scream shocked her.

Duke and Andrew were already up and dressed when they heard screaming coming from the girls room.

"What the hell is going on over there?" Andrew asked. "It sounds like there are two girls."

"That's because there are two girls," Duke said.

"Two?" Duke got up and Andrew followed him out the room and straight ahead to Anna's room. Duke opened the door to find both girls screaming, Cassandra looking extremely good in her pajamas. "Whoa," Andrew mumbled.

"Hey hey hey!" Duke yelled. Anna and Cassandra stopped and looked at him. "Thank you."

"Who are you?" Anna demanded from Cassandra.

"Your new roommate," Cassandra said as she slowly sat back down and lifted the comforter over herself, obviously getting a little self-conscious because the boys were in there and she was wearing her underwear.

"Roommate? Nobody told me I was going to have a roommate." Cassandra shrugged, Anna didn't seem too nice. Anna rolled her eyes, a little ticked that she no longer had the room to herself. "I'm Anna," she said.

"I'm Cassandra."

"Andrew," Andrew piped up. Cassandra looked at the cute blue eyed boy and smiled.

"Hi," she said.

"Ok boys, you can leave now," Anna said.

"Right." They walked out of the room and Cassandra got up.

"Why did you get under the covers?" Anna asked.

"Oh, um…I was just…"

"Embarrassed? No need to be, you have a kick ass body."

"Um, thanks." She made her bed then went to her bag and took out her uniform.

"Are you a senior?"

"Junior."

"Then why are you in a senior dorm?"

"I have senior classes, except for English."

"So did you fail or what?"

"No, they just wouldn't let me skip a grade so I'm still considered a junior; I'm actually surprised they put me in a dorm with seniors."

"Is this your first time in a boarding school?" Anna asked.

"No, I came from Alanwood in New York."

"You move down here?"

"No, my parents enjoy ruining my life."

"Join the club." Cassandra let out a small laugh. Maybe her roommate wasn't so bad after all. She grabbed her uniform and walked to the bathroom. She went back to her room and put on blue no lace converse. She picked up her puma bag and walked out of the room.

"You're not going to wait for me?" Anna asked as she walked out of the bathroom.

"Oh, I didn't know you wanted me to…"

"Duh." Cassandra walked back into the room and waited for Anna to put her shoes on. "Let me see your schedule," Anna said as they walked out of the dorm room. Cassandra handed it to her and looked around the hall. There were people walking in and out of rooms, and she could tell that they were all older.

"Hey Anna," one girl said. Anna gave the girl a quick wave and then turned her attention back to Cassandra's schedule.

"Ok so we have math together and free period, but since today is Thursday you are on your own, ok see ya," Anna said.

"Um…" she walked away. "Ok." Cassandra looked at her schedule and started looking for economics.

"So Cassandra," Andrew said to Duke as they sat down.

"What about her?"

"She's kind of hot isn't she?"

"Yea, I guess she is." They looked at the doorway and she walked into the classroom.

"Hi, I'm Cassandra," Cassandra said to the teacher.

"Oh I'm Ms. Smith, welcome to economics; we don't have many empty seats. Just sit in the first one you see."

"Alright, thanks." The seats were long desks with four seats. She sat down in the first seat she saw, not realizing who she had sat down next to.

"Hey," the guy said. She looked at him.

"Oh, hey Duke." She looked at Andrew sitting next to him. "Hey Andrew."

"What's up Cassandra?"

"So you're a senior?" Duke asked.

"No, junior actually."

"Well then you must be smart." She looked at him.

"I am," she said confidently.

"What other classes do you have?" he asked. She handed him her schedule. "So we have everything together except for English," Duke said.

"Guess we'll be seeing a lot of each other then."

"Guess so."

"Um, Duke, Cassandra," Ms. Smith said.

"Sorry," Cassandra and Duke muttered. They spent the rest of the class taking notes.

"See you guys later," Andrew said as he walked in a different direction from Cassandra and Duke.

"So, want to walk together?" Duke asked. She nodded, feeling like a little schoolgirl. "Where did you come from?" he asked.

"I think I'll let your mom explain that to you," she said. He started laughing.

"I mean, what school did you come from?"

"Alanwood in New York."

"New York? That's kind of far, your entire family move out here?"

"No, just me."

"What? Why did they send you?"

"I've come to the conclusion that they hate me."

"Did you do anything that provoked them?"

"Oh yea, I was smoking weed and snorting cocaine everyday…no, they're just really weird people."

"Sorry to hear that," he said as they walked into a classroom. After talking to the teacher Cassandra sat next to Duke.

"And you? What's your story?"

"Well I'm a senior, have been here since I was a freshman, I'm captain of the soccer team and believe it or not but…" he leaned in and whispered, "My favorite movie is 'Casablanca'." She let out a small laugh.

"Then I guess we'll have to watch it together one day, cause that's my favorite movie also," she said, making him smile.

"Class work on section three, you may talk amongst yourselves," the teacher said.

"Do you play any sports?" Duke asked.

"No, well I swim but it's mostly for fun, I'm more of an art person," she said, lifting up her notebook.

"Are you?" he picked it up and opened it.

"Whoa, you're getting a little ahead of yourself. You can't look at those," she said, closing the notebook.

"Why?"

"I only let people I know see inside that notebook."

"And will I ever get to know you?"

"That's up to you." She turned to her science book and started doing her work.

"Alright," Duke said, beginning his work. "Hey, where are you headed?" Duke asked Cassandra as she walked out of class. She shrugged.

"Go and explore campus, maybe set something on fire, I'll see what I'm feeling." He smiled.

"Well I'll be at soccer practice, you know if you want to pass by or something." She nodded.

"Um, ok."

"Alright, later Cassandra."

"Yea, bye." She turned around.

'So hot," she said to herself as she walked away. She walked to her dorm and dropped off her books then walked around the campus.

"Hey Duke," Toby said.

"Hey Toby." They walked out onto the field. Andrew joined them.

"Hey Duke, talk to Cassandra last period?" Andrew asked.

"Cassandra? Who's this?" Toby asked.

"She's Anna's new roommate, and she's hot," Andrew said.

"No one is as beautiful as my Eunice," Toby said. Andrew and Duke shook their heads. Eunice was Toby's girlfriend. She was a Class A nerd but cute in her own way. "But anyways, I'd still like to see her."

"You will." They started practice.

It was 4:45 and Cassandra had covered the entire campus, she was about to go back to her dorm room when she remembered what Duke had said. She turned around and walked outside and down to the field. They appeared to be playing a shirts and skins game, Duke looking really good without a shirt. She sat down on a bench and watched for a while.

"Hey Duke, look who just showed up," Andrew said looking at the sidelines. Duke followed his glance and his eyes fell on Cassandra. She looked so cute in her school uniform. She noticed him looking at her and gave him a shy smile and a small wave. He gave her a nod before turning back to the game. The coach blew his whistle and called the team over.

"Alright lads, that was a good practice, I'll see you boys back here early Saturday morning," he said. He blew his whistle and ended practice. Duke talked to a few of the players before walking over to Cassandra.

"Hey," she said.

"Glad you could make it."

"Yea you looked…I mean played great out there," she said quickly. He chuckled.

"Thanks. Um I think I should shower before we keep this conversation going."

"Right. Uh, I'll wait for you outside of the locker room," she said, half saying half asking.

"Yea, I'll be out soon." He walked into the locker room and she walked back into the school. While she was waiting Andrew walked out with Toby.

"Oh hey Cassandra," he said.

"Hi Andrew."

"This is Toby, Toby this is our new roommate, Cassandra."

"Nice to meet you," he said.

"Same here."

"So are you waiting for someone?" Andrew asked.

"Yea, Duke."

"He should be out soon, see you later."

"Ok, bye." They walked away. Five minutes later Duke walked out smelling really good.

"Alright, to what we were talking about earlier," he said as they started walking.

"I don't really think we were talking about anything," she said.

"Right, we weren't. Um, do you have any siblings?" she shook her head.

"Only child."

"Interesting, so am I."

"Really? Well that's kind of funny." They made their way up the stairs and started walking towards their dorm room. "So what do you guys do here, for fun I mean?"

"Well we get dances all the time; we have Cesario's, which is an Italian restaurant down the street and the campus has a whole bunch of activities, maybe you should look into joining a club."

"I've never really been a 'club' person," she said using quotations.

"They have an art club."

"I'll think about it." They walked into their room. "I wonder if my roommate is in here," she said opening the door to her room. It was empty.

"Oh, Anna is a cheerleader. She usually doesn't get back to her room until late. The cheerleaders are always doing something. Hey maybe you should hang out with them," Duke suggested.

"I don't think so. Anyways I'm going to shower and then put all my stuff away."

"Ok, I'll see you later then." She nodded and he walked out of the room.