This chapter will be centered around Alex and Cruz, however I am unsure if only this chapter will do that. I will most definitely go by pairs based on dorm pairings and whose sharing a dorm together. It's easy for me to write in that sort of format.
Norrisville High, August 3rd, 11:57
Alex Russo didn't know if she enjoyed her roommates presence. If Alex knew the girl she sat next to on the plane was gonna be sleeping in the same room as her, she would've actually attempted some conversation. At the moment, Alex was getting ready to go out of the dorm and meet up with Harper, and her roommate, Cruz, was still sound asleep. Cruz had slept through breakfast, lunch, and in a couple of hours, dinner. Now don't get anything wrong, Alexandra Margarita Russo has never been a morning person, but the latest she seemed to be able to sleep at this time of year was eight AM, and the fact her new roommate could sleep until noon astounded her. Just as she was about to leave their dorm, a ringtone played throughout the room, the sound bouncing off the lot of boxes in the corner of the room, showing just how lazy the two were when it came to unpacking.
Her turquoise haired roommate sat up in her bed, her hair knotted and spread in all directions. Sleeping beauty yawned as she picked up her phone, acknowledging her caller, "Hello?" A silence filled the room as the young girl listened to her caller, nodding off as she held back from falling asleep. Alex paid close attention to this, remembering the coffee machine that was pre-set on the mini-kitchen's counter. The room in itself was set up like a hotel suite, coming along with a mini fridge, two king sized beds, a small dining room table with four chairs, two closets, a flat screen TV, two couches, and one bathroom, along with some other small things for their convenience. Alex waited patiently for the girl to get off her phone, wishing she could use her wand to speed things up without suspicion. Cruz hung up, setting her phone on her nightstand as she stood up and headed for her pile of boxes, bringing out some clothes as she silently told herself to put stuff away when she got back.
Alex cleared her throat, bringing Cruz's attention to her black haired roommate, "We gotta coffee machine if you want some coffee, you look pretty tired." Alex had no clue why she seemed to care, and she had no intentions on finding out why.
Cruz smiled at the thought,"Thanks, I'm gonna need it to live for the rest of the day." Alex chuckled, grabbing her over-the-shoulder brown purse, "You look ready to go somewhere," Cruz stood up, placing her clothes on the bed before moving most of the boxes as she looked for her body products, "Where you off to?"
Alex turned the knob on the door, "Just to see my friend who came with us, and if she forces me to, meet other people"
Cruz giggled, "Ugh, the struggle of being forced into social interaction!" She put the back of her hand on her forehead, feigning a dramatic look.
"You got that right," Alex went through the door, "I'll be back later."
Cruz sighed, "I probably won't be back for a long time, but I'll bring some junk food if ya want."
Alex smirked, "I like what you're thinking, can you bring back some gum, Dr. Pepper, and some Funyuns? I should be able to get the rest." Cruz simply put her right thumb up, "Nice, see ya later." Alex shut the door behind her, leaving Cruz in the room by herself.
Cruz listened carefully to the footsteps as they moved away, and as soon as they were entirely gone, picked up her phone and recalled her previous caller. "Hello?"
"Hey Rob, sorry about early, my roommate was still here. Do you think we'll have a mission today?" Cruz excitedly spoke, a hopeful gleam in her eyes shining.
"I'm not sure, but you need to come to Mount Justice for training pronto. Canary's hosting it today." A good friend of hers, Robin, AKA Dick Grayson, spoke to her on the phone. As he spoke, Cruz walked toward the coffee machine and pulled out a plastic, portable coffee cup, placing it under the dispenser.
"I'll have time to get dressed and shower, right?" Cruz questioned, Robin chuckling on the other line, causing her to frown as she put a keurig cup into the slot, closing it up and letting her coffee brew.
"Not unless you shower at the Mountain, sorry. We're pretty short on time." Cruz sighed, said her goodbyes, and hung up on the boy wonder.
Cruz groaned, "I really have to shower at the Mountain? This is gonna suck," She spoke to herself, quickly changing into a pair of skinny jeans, a simple purple v-neck, and a pair of black and white vans. She grabbed her monster-proof iPhone 6 from her nightstand, putting it in her back pocket. She headed to her empty closet and took out her black duffel bag, a pair of sunglasses, a black hoodie, her uniform, and a Fenton thermos tucked inside, as well as some lotion, perfume, make-up, deodorant, and lip balm. She zipped it up and threw it over her shoulder, taking her coffee from under the dispenser and grabbing some creamer and sugar and pouring a little of each in. Cruz took a quick sip, as if to test it, than walked towards the door, coffee in hand, and left her dorm.
As she walked down the outdoor pathways in the dormitories, she saw a familiar face walking towards her, his black hair blowing in the wind as he ran towards her. "Danny, is that you?" She questioned, picking up her pace as she got closer and closer to her supposed step-brother. When she could finally see the face of her brother, she dropped her duffel bag on the floor and broke into a run, tackling poor Danny in a tight hug. "Danny!"
"Cruz? You go here?" He hugged back his little sister, towering over her short figure. Before he could get back the obvious answer, he looked behind her to see the duffel bag she had let fall to the floor. "What's with the bag?" Cruz's smile fell quickly, but she easily replaced it with a fake new one, walking back to her bag and picking it up. She opened it a quarter of the way, taking out the Fenton thermos and making sure nothing else in it could be seen.
"I always keep it with me, and I'm off to see some friends of mine, so I'm bringing some games." She secretly hoped Danny wouldn't have any more questions, getting an idea, "Well I don't wanna be late, I'll see you later bro." With one last quick hug, Cruz put the thermos back in her bag and zipped it up, throwing it back over her shoulder and made her way to the nearest alley.
Norrisville High Cafeteria, 12:12
Alex made her way into the schools cafeteria, soon to be overwhelmed by the amount of people in the room. Each table was filled to the brim, the lunch tables each with ten seats circled around the table. It seemed that everybody was eating lunch, which looked to be cheese pizza with a side of fries. Alex looked around aimlessly as she wondered where Harper could be, finally, a hand raised in the air, waving around to tell Alex to come to it. Alex deduced this was Harper as she walked toward the table, Harper in the midst of a conversation with a girl with black hair and blue eyes, her hair in two low pigtails. Across the table sat a girl with tan skin and mid length brown to orange hair, wearing an orange plaid shirt. The tan girl seemed to be silent to herself as the other two talked, so Alex decided to sit next to her.
"Alex, there you are! I'd like you to meet Marinette and," Harper spoke to Alex, hesitant when it came to telling her the tan girls name, "I'm so sorry, what's your name again?"
"It's Alya, nice to meet ya girl." Alya looked as if she were one of those very talkative girls, the one who always helped her friends till no end, but she stayed silent as Harper and Marinette talked.
"Marinette's my roommate, and she likes fashion too!" Harper smiled brightly as she spoke of her new friend, Alya sighing beside Alex. The two girls broke into a conversation about their works, Alex believing she couldn't hear herself think anymore.
"Alya, who's your roommate?" Alex asked, Alya looking towards her. Alex could tell how lonely the girl was, and she'd admit it too, Alex was feeling the same way at the moment.
"Principal Slimovitz says she hasn't arrived yet, but he also said she should be here two weeks into the school year." Alya finally seemed to be a bit happier, since now she was being acknowledged. Though, every other moment, she would look back at Marinette. Alex could tell there was a reason for this, and she deduced the two had a connection to each other somehow.
Alex couldn't tell whether or not if she should bring it up or not, it seemed that Alya didn't really want to talk about it. Finally, Marinette brought herself into the conversation, "Harper and I are heading back to our dorm, want to come with?" The girl spoke in broken English, a French accent present in her voice, however, not in Alya's voice.
Alya was about to reply back, until Alex replied for her, "We're good, I still have to get some stuff while I'm out for the dorm, and I was kinda hoping Alya would come with...?"
Alex turned back to Alya to see a surprised expression on the girls face, which quickly broke into a smirk, "Of course, girl! Where to first?" Alex smiled along with her, throwing her arm around the slightly taller girls shoulders.
Town of Norrisville, 14:58
After Harper and Marinette left, Alex and Alya headed for the streets of Norrisville. For no apparent reason, the streets were clear of people and empty of cars. It was as if the school was the only area in the whole town that had residents in it, the rest completely vacant of human life. As the two walked down the empty streets of their new home, they could see debris on almost everything. Broken planks of wood scattered among the streets, torn fabric hanging from poles, graffiti staining broken brick walls, crumbled stone and shattered glass at their feet, and water, tons of it. "What happened here?" Alex muttered to herself under her breath. The young wizard wished she could just use her magic and clean it all up, but that would not only let Alya know of her magic, but would also raise suspicion throughout the small town.
"The town has a hero called the Norrisville Ninja from what I've heard," Alya spoke to no one specifically, "When he has to fight someone, things get pretty dangerous and messy. It looks like the town has given up on cleaning his mess." Alex could easily understand that. If somebody made her room a mess, she might have cleaned it once, but over and over again, what's the point then? It's bound to get messy again. She barely cleans her room at all, over and over again? She wouldn't even try.
"Our town has heroes, but one of them has the power to reset things to the way they were before, so it's not that big of a deal. I can see why that power is helpful." Alya had seen many fights between Ladybug and Chat Noir an akumatized villains, all of them ended with the words 'Miraculous Ladybug'. Those words alone keep Paris in order after a destructive fight, and those words were definitely needed now.
The two walked to a building with the sign 'Publix' displayed, it looked to be a grocery store. The girls shared a quick glance with each other before walking towards it, the door automatically sliding open. "It seems to be open," Alex spoke aloud, looking back to Alya. In all honesty, Alex was shocked. Just five seconds ago, she had the feeling a person would get in the apocalypse, now, she was ready to go grocery shopping.
Alya simply grabbed a shopping cart from their side and smirked, "So what do we need?"
Norrisville High, Dorm A-02, 20:32
Alex slammed her dorm door behind her and Alya, laughing along with Alya as she placed her shopping bags on the small dining room table. She snorted at the memory she was telling her new friend, "You should have seen my brothers face! Best. Prank. Ever." Alex attempted to catch her breath, slapping her hand on the table in a fit of laughter. The laughter died down and ended with a chorused sigh between the two, both quickly breaking back into smiles.
"You do know we have a nightly curfew to be back in dorms by 9:30pm on school nights, right? We kinda need to work on it, girl." Alya smiled, Alex looking at the empty bed of her roommate. She frowned slightly, when was she going to be back? Alya noticed the look on her face and immediately spoke up, "What's wrong?"
"My roommate, I was hoping you two could meet, but she isn't back yet." Alex sighed, looking back to Alya, "She said she might not be back for a good amount of time, but I didn't think she meant past 10:30."
Alya opened one of the plastic shopping bags and opened both the mini-fridge and an empty cabinet over the small counter. As she grabbed a large pack of ramen noodles, she replied, "What's her name? What's she like?"
Alex let her hand rake through her black hair as she was soon lost in thought, she barely knew the girl. "Her name's Cruz, she has long turquoise dyed hair, similar colored eyes, and she's chill from what I know about her," Alex looked up to Alya as she sat down on the edge of her unmade bed, "But that's the thing, I barely know her. She's the girl I'll be living with for a huge amount of time, yet I barely know her."
Alya took a box of cereal out of one of the bags, placing it next to the ramen she put away, "Well with how you spent your own money on groceries, I'd say you'll probably be the more hands-on person in the dorm." Alex snorted almost immediately bursting into laughter, catching Alya's attention, "What's so funny?"
"It's all junk food I got with emergency money my dad gave me, plus, the moment we walked into the dorm together, she took some cleaning supplies she found in the bathroom and cleaned the place top to bottom." Alex couldn't help but laugh, her? Responsible? That idea's hilarious to her.
Alya finished up putting the groceries away, yawning before heading over to the latino and hugging her goodnight, "I better head to my dorm and get some sleep," As the two separated from the hug, Alya pointed at Alex with a finger gun, "Same time tomorrow?"
"Definitely, but maybe a different table for the time being. Harper gets a bit excited when she meets new people, things should calm down in a day or two." Alex reasoned with her new friend, Alya nodding back and heading toward the door, "Night Alya"
"Goodnight Alex"
Another chapter, yay! I hate begging for reviews, but man, feedback is so helpful. Tell me your thoughts on this, I think it's doing pretty good so far.