Oops... That got longer than I thought it would...
I own nothing! Le enjoy...
My brother dropped me off at the front gate and busied around me like a mother hen.
"Do you have everything you need?! Money, books, clothes, money, violin..." The list went on and on as I tried to calm him down.
"Pff you worry too much... I have everything I need. I'll miss you though... And before I forget thanks... For driving me here and loaning your guest bedroom for me..." He pats my head careful of the ears hiding in it.
"You know my number and my address... so... If you ever need anything or if you get into trouble I'll swoop in like a knight in shining armor to come save you like the damsel you are!" The smirk on his face seems to be permanent lately... Probably trying to hide how worried he is.
He leans on his car as we banter back and forth for half an hour before he hands me my bags and walks over to the drivers side.
"Don't get into trouble and if they pick on you just tell them your brothers gonna eat em all for breakfast!" I laugh at the sentiment and wave as he drives off. Well time to get lost inside the huge campus!
I walk among the flowers and trees that still are blossoming and have the green colors of summer. I see people all around walking with friends and family probably looking for their own halls...
I see a few with a butterfly on their belt and a few with a snake on theirs... So there are three halls for girls and three for boys... I'm gonna take a wild guess and say snakes are the weird ones, the butterflies are the pretty girly girls and horses are everything in between... Great...
I know I have that letter about freshmen orientation- where the heck did I put it though...
As I frantically search for that one piece of paper I come to a sudden stop as I bump into someone.
"Oh dear! Sorry sir!" I kneel down to gather the papers I just threw around and the book of his that dropped along with them. As I straighten back up I notice that he has no Hall symbol on his robes... Greeeeeaat that means he's a professor right... Fantastic... Good first impression there Irene!
"A new student, I see. And what might your name be?" He smirks as takes the book back.
"Oh... My name is Irene Mansell! I am so sorry for bumping into you... I should keep a closer eye to where..." I stop mid sentence as I notice he's not even paying attention to me anymore... He's just flipping the pages of his large book. Way to be rude professor.
"Aa... Miss...Mansell.. There we go... Ah a Wildseed... That explains a lot..." He takes a pen from his pocket and doesn't even take notice of me questioning what Wildseed means...
"You are more than likely, a complete waste of my time. You have no idea how much you have been given, and you will throw it all away..." He scribbles something into the book and slams it shut with a loud bang.
"Ten demerits... Not a promising start Miss Mansell... I hope you pay more attention to your studies than you do to where you are walking." His evil smirk is still on his face as he walks past me and leaves me utterly puzzled in the middle of the yard.
I haven't even been to my first lesson in magic and I already have demerits and a teacher who hates me... I am so gonna shine this year aren't I. I take a deep breath and start to walk towards the hall again with my mood a tiny bit less happy than it was before running into Professor Grumpy-as-heee...*cough*
Anyway... After a while of looking and asking for directions not once but twice, I finally walk through the double doors into the dormitories in my Hall... There are nine doors in this Hall and only one labeled "Bathroom" I wonder how big it is if there's two girls for each room.
I stare at the letter again, room number 3... I have 2 roommates but the letter says nothing about them. Oh I hope they aren't some girly girls who shriek when they see a spider or one of their nails break...
As I open the door and manage to get myself and my 4 bags inside the room with as little fuss as I can probably manage... Which is still a lot to a normal person... I notice the room is fairly ordinary-looking bedroom...
Kind of disappointing if they are witches like I'm supposed to be why aren't there candles dripping on the tables or skulls somewhere... There's not even a blacklight poster on the wall... No crystals or incense anywhere... Oh maybe they just haven't unpacked their creepy witchy stuff out yet...
As I drop my bags on the bed furthest from the door I notice a small figure moving on the other side of the room.
"Am... oh... Hello?" I look at the blond who has a fairly shocked face as she stares at me, the person who just crashed into her room and flopped on a bed without saying a word.
"Oh! You're a horse!" As her eyes start to drift to the side and her cheeks redden I hastily add. "I didn't mean you look like one or have a long face or anything! I swear! I'll just start over! My name is Irene aand I'm guessing you are my roommate?"
"One of two yes. My name is Ellen. That's Virginia's bed, but she ran out to talk to people." She introduces herself with a smile and a firm handshake.
"Where does thy hail frometh?" I ask as I lie back down on the bed and massage one of my shoulders. As I look her way again I notice her eyes looking my way.
"I beg your pardon? What?" She sits down on her bed with a thud.
"Where are you from?" I translate my earlier sentence.
"Ooh... Why didn't you just say that...?" This is a shy girl isn't it... Probably a huge bookworm too... Great my roomie's a geek! I can work with that!
"I'm a weird person... That's why." I sit back up. "I'm from Ohio... I lived there with my brother Petri after our mother passed. That house was way too full..."
"I'm from Virginia - the state, I mean. I'm not really sure where Virginia -the girl- is from. I didn't really get the chance to ask before she left." She's shy but she sure does smiles a lot...
"You don't really have much of a southern accent." I point out as I tilt my head.
"It's not that far south, and my family wasn't originally from there..." Her smile is reaching from ear to ear, I'm guessing from the thought of her family.
"Soo... All these books... All yours?" I ask as I walk over to the bookshelf to see the big collection of novels and literature.
"Yes... There aren't any computers here, so I brought my old and the books I would have studied at my other school had I stayed..." Aww she's rather adorable when she's blushing.
"Woo I guessed right! You must be a really good student" I smirk... Totally a geek then.
"Not really. I won't probably even open any of them. But I'd rather have them and not need them than need something and not have it." She beams a smile as she walks up next to me.
"Those books are everything I could find out about magic, the real kind, now that I know it's real..." She still has that tiny blush on her face as she beams that sun shiny smile at me.
"I know! It's awesome, right? We are going to be witches! Just like in the movies!" I laugh and read a few titles of the books... I would have never bought this many encyclopedias to begin with...
"Oh good! You are wildseed too!" I know I thought it was impossible but she smiled even more.
"Pff what does that even mean?" I frown as I remember my little bumping accident.
"It just means you weren't born with magic... So you are like a wild flower..." A tall redhead just shows up next to Ellen. Uh another horse! She holds out her hand for me to shake.
"I'm Virginia, my whole family is all magical... So I always knew I'd be a witch..." This must be my other roommate... I'm guessing she's not the geeky kind...
"That is one strong grip you got there... I'm Irene" I smile back at both of them.
"Pleasure to meetcha."
"Is being aa.. 'wild' a problem? I ran into a really grumpy professor and he was rude about it to put it nicely..." My smile fades as I make my way back to my bed.
"A grumpy professor? Shaggy black hair, Big nose?" Virginia asks with her hands on her hip.
"Yeeeah that's the one! I bumped into him while trying to find my way around the campus."
"Oh no! You'll be on Grabby's blacklist now for sure!" Oh the comforting way that Virginia laughed at my misery...
Ellen looks at Virginia with her eyes wide. "He grabs girls?!"
"Please tell me that's not his real name! I won't be able to stop laughing during classes..." I giggle on my bed.
"Naah.. That's his name! Professor Grabiner."
"Well what ever his name is... He sure does hate me..." I fling my arm to cover my eyes.
"Don't worry... I hear he hates everyone... No one really cares if you're born a witch or not. And everyone's scared of Grabby... He's a really monster... William warned me about him."
"Who's William?" I ask while straightening my hat again... My fluffy ears just won't keep still!
"He's my big...Bigger brother. He's a senior here. My other brother -Donald- he's a freshman, like us. They're in Wolf hall. Wanna go meet them?"
"I better unpack my bags... There's a lot of stuff I need to get out and so little tiimee." I make the whole situation seem more dramatic than it really is.
"You really wanna just unpack? I hate unpacking... Made my mom do it!" Virginia laughed while pointing to her cleanly made area.
"Oh thy haveth convinced me. Lead on!" I get up from the bed. "I can always do it when I get back anyway... Right? Besides... The only wizard I've met so far was Professor Grabby... And that was not a pleasant experience..."
"Shall we?" Virginia opens the door.
"We shall!" I laugh and walk up to Virginia.
"Um... Do you still want me to come?" Ellen asks with a quiet voice.
"Aa... Why wouldn't I?"Virginia stares at Ellen."Come on!"
Virginia leads us unerringly through the maze that is our new schools hallways to one of the boys' sections. A boy walks up to us.
"You ladies need a hand?" He smiles. This is the first person with purple eyes that I've ever met... I wonder if its common among... magical people...
"No, I'm just looking for-" Virginia stops her sentence short and I duck to the side when I see a flash of a water balloon go past me and it smacks into the side of Virginia's head.
"DONALD!" Virginia yells so that the whole hall hears her as she tries to get water out of her eyes.
"Yes! Perfect shot!" The boy who appears out of the door points at Virginia and laughs.
"Soo... This is my utter dork of a brother Donald... You are going to be in so much trouble..."
"Uu scary... What are you going to do, Urchin...? Tell mom on me? She's not heeerree." The boys high five each other.
"Who said I need to do anything? You'll find your way in detention by the end of the week by just being you!" Virginia laughs and runs a hand through her now wet hair.
"C'mon Luke!" Donald returns to his room, followed by the other boy, who bumps into the door on his way out of sight.
"V? That you? Hey you! All moved in?" The tall boy walks up next to Virginia. "Why are you wet?" So is this William?
"You can thank Donald and his new best friend!" Virginia stares at the closed door of Donalds room.
"Aww you poor thing... Here, allow me!" A warm breeze of air sweeps through the halls and dries Virginia up in matter of seconds.
After introducing us to William, Virginia led us back to our room so I could unpack and get some rest before the school really starts tomorrow.