A/N: IT'S THE LONG AWAITED, NEXT DAY UPDATE! I guess I'm just trying to make up for the previous lack of updating... So I guess boredom is a good thing when it comes to my writing. ANYWAY, this one isn't as crappy as the last one. Once again, I apologize. Also, Hunter is OOC, from what we have seen from him on the show. Now read, minion.
Reese had borrowed her stepfather's truck so she could move all of her stuff back into the dorm. She parked outside the main building so she could get her dorm assignment, earning some weird looks from a few of the students milling around. Good thing there wasn't very many. You just don't drive into Dalton with a truck filled with boxes. But Reese did. She opened the doors and walked into Dalton, feeling like she was home. In the main office, the secretary immediately recognized her. They'd been good friends when she was here.
"Reese! I didn't know you were moving back!" the secretary, Jane, came around the desk to give Reese a hug.
"Yeah. I didn't like it very much at McKinley, and I've really missed this place," she looked around once more, soaking everything in.
"It's great to have you back, hon," Janet went back around to her side of the desk and started typing on her computer, "but I suppose you came in here to receive your schedule and dorm appointment, huh?" Reese nodded.
"Well, unfortunately, you're going to be staying with three boys. The girl's dorm hasn't been built yet even though we have a few more girls scheduled to come later this year. Although I'm sure Hunter, Jeff, and Sebastian won't mind," Janet smiled, "I know you're friends with Jeff and Sebastian, and Hunter's a sweetheart, so I'm sure it won't be a problem."
Reese smirked. "Thanks, I'll just take my schedule and a key, then. I don't need a map or anything, I know where everything is," she said. Janet slid everything over the desk and Reese put them in her bag.
"See you later, sweetie!" Janet called. Heck, Reese had even missed the secretary.
She parked the truck outside the dorm building/sorority house. Dalton didn't have one big building for dorms, they had dorm houses. Each one held about 8 people. They were all about 4 floors tall and were like normal houses with appliances and such. She was lucky she could come to Dalton on scholarship, she didn't think she could've come any other way.
The only reason Reese got into Dalton in her freshman year was because the headmaster wanted to see if he could get any more money by accepting girls. But before he started accepting girls he needed to see how one would act around so many guys. Recylia wasn't necessarily the best choice for that, but her Crawford Country Day teachers seemed to think so.
When she got there she and Blaine became really good friends by a chance encounter in a spare classroom. She was really nervous and shy and not the Reese she was now, and Blaine gave her a pep talk and cheered her up. Later he introduced her to the Warblers. Blaine was the first friend she had made at Dalton.
Once he convinced her to join the Warblers she became friends with Jeff, who got her out of her shell. Anyone who was good friends with Jeff became more outgoing and lost any shyness they had previously acquired. They dated for awhile but then later agreed they were better friends rather than dating. Then she started branching out and became friends with Wes, Nick, Thad, Trent, and David. By the end of the year she had a really good group of friends.
Until Blaine moved to McKinley. She decided to move too, no matter how many of the Warblers tried to discourage her. Sometimes she just wished Blaine had never met Kurt.
She was snapped out of her thoughts by her phone, and she looked at the caller ID. Blaine. She tossed the thing in the back seat. She had decided to register back at Dalton that Sunday, two days after Sectionals. There was always a secretary in, so she was pretty much free to move in any day she wanted. She did, however, want to go to class as soon as possible. Her parents called in yesterday to make sure the principal was okay with her moving back. It was a very good thing she sometimes paid him a friendly visit when she was a freshman.
Reese backed the truck out of the spot she was parked in and drove to the dorm she was in just a few days ago. Once she was parked she took her keys out of the ignition and put her dorm key on the chain. She practically skipped up to the door and put the key in the lock. The door opened without protest.
"BOYS! YOU'RE NEW ROOMMATE'S HERE!" Reese yelled down the stairs where the boys slept. She didn't hear anyone upstairs, and the top floor was empty. The main floor was the kitchen and the living room that went untouched. Downstairs were the guys' room and their bathroom. The third floor was the game/study room. That one had a couch and a TV (also where the Xbox was located), plus a few desks. The fourth floor was supposed to be another bedroom floor but was empty because they didn't have enough people to fill it. That was going to be Reese's floor.
After a few minutes of silence, Reese figured that they weren't there. She sighed after she guessed she had to move everything on her own. She put her bag on a table next to the door, then went out to grab a box.
Once she had finally gotten the thing up the spiral staircase, she found out that the fourth floor wasn't empty, like she thought it was. It had furniture in it, and it looked like it was ready to live in, other than the lack of personal items. Reese would have to call her step parents later and tell them that they didn't have to bring her furniture from the house. She laid the box down on the dresser and went to go get another one. She ran into Thad waiting at her truck.
"Reese?" he asked. He looked shocked to see her there. "I saw a truck out here with boxes and I got curious. Glad to see you're back."
"Thanks. Would you care to help me? My roommates apparently don't know the meaning hospitality," she asked.
"That's what I came to ask. Jeff, Hunter, and Sebastian are actually having an emergency Warbler meeting. Apparently they wanted to have a chat with the freshmen. A few of them messed up at Sectionals and Jeff's ticked. Hunter, however, just called the meeting so Jeff would quit badgering him about it. You know how Jeff is," Thad said. Reese nodded, holding back a smile. She knew exactly how he was.
"You did a really good job at Sectionals, by the way," he said, picking up a box from the back of the truck.
"Thanks," Reese replied picking up a box of her own. "I was kind of concerned though. After I left, I heard that a few of the New Directions went to go speak to the judges."
"It turned out fine. They said that as long as you didn't perform with the New Directions too then it didn't violate any rules," Thad led the way into the dorm and Reese gestured that her room was upstairs. "How come they let you room with three guys?"
"They didn't have any other place for me. The dorms they're letting a few girls use aren't done yet. But rumor has it that a few girls are coming later in the year, "Reese winked at him.
"I know one of them, Aya something. Real pretty, but not my type. You'd be good friends with her, though," he said. He laid the box next to the one she had brought in earlier on her dresser.
"We'll have to see about that," she said, and they went to go get more boxes.
Hunter's P.O.V.
Something was up. The door was open and there was a bag sitting on the side table. Hunter looked around and didn't see any other unfamiliar items. Jeff looked like he wanted to look through the bag, but managed to refrain. Hunter started towards the stairs, curious to see who was making to noise. Jeff followed suit, and Sebastian, who looked uninterested, plopped down on the couch.
Hunter heard another thump, and then some swearing. In a British accent.
Jeff laughed and then yelled, "Recylia Rose Lester! Language!"
"Not my fault! Thad put the box on the edge of the dresser!" Hunter climbed the rest of the steps to find Reese standing in a pile of converse. She had boxes everywhere.
Jeff stepped around Hunter and opened a box entitled "Manga". "I see you haven't stopped reading this," he held up a volume of manga.
Reese snatched it out of his hand, "No, no I haven't."
"So Thad was here?" Hunter asked. He had a weird feeling in his chest that he couldn't pinpoint.
"Yeah. All I have to now is unpack and take my stepdad's truck back," Reese started picking up the pile of converse that had formed around her. Hunter didn't know Reese had a stepparents. He made a mental note to ask Jeff later.
"I can take it back for you," Jeff volunteered.
Reese looked at him skeptically. "I swear if you wreck it or my car when you bring it back I will slap you all the way to England," she said. Jeff did a mock salute and went back downstairs. She heard the truck as it drove away.
"Do you want any more help?" Hunter asked. He was leaning in the doorway, hands in his pockets, looking at Reese.
"Sure, just take those two boxes of converse and put them in the closet organizer," she said. Hunter looked at her in shock. "What? I respect my converse, therefore they need to be neatly organized in my closet."
Hunter shook his head at her, but started putting the converse back in the box so he could take it over to her closet."So have you heard the rumors about the other girls coming?" Hunter asked.
"Yeah, Thad told me," Reese said as she started unpacking the manga. "He said something about one named Aya that he knew. Also said he didn't know anything about the rest."
"Aya and Kylie," Hunter said. Reese gave him a look, "Sebastian's mom took a job for the school he knows all about them. Complains all the time, too. Something about 'taking the guy supply down'."
Reese laughed. "That's almost impossible considering this is an all-guy school," she frowned. "Well, it's almost an all-guy school."
"I also heard about a transfer student named Gabby. Sebastian said that she's from Romania and is coming here for her senior year," Hunter said.
"If she's from Romania wouldn't that, like, make her a vampire or something?" Reese asked.
Hunter laughed and Reese threw a volume of manga at the back of his head. He picked the copy back up and threw it back at her. She caught it inches from her face and put it on her bookshelf. "How did you do that?" Hunter asked.
"Do what?" Reese asked.
"Catch that book while it was inches from your face?"
"Easy. Fight Club. Don't tell me no one continued it?" Reese asked.
"No. This is the first I've heard of it," Hunter looked confused.
"Well, freshman year, Blaine, Jeff, and I started Dalton Academy Fight Club. With the help of some seniors of course. We all sucked when we started, but our reflexes and fighting skills got better. Wait a second. I'm not supposed to be talking about this. Never mind," Reese looked a bit put out with herself for mentioning it in the first place.
"Let me guess, first rule of fight club: never talk about fight club?" Hunter asked, a smile on his face.
"Exactly. It wasn't necessarily legalized by the school, there's this warehouse—crap! I need to shut up," she resumed putting the countless volumes of manga on the shelves.
They continued unpacking Reese's things in a comfortable silence, until Jeff returned. Reese had moved on to unpacking her street clothes and Hunter was putting sheets on the bed. "Looks like you got Hunter to work!" Jeff sauntered in and opened a box. He whistled and pulled out Reese's old cheerleading uniform. "You never told me you were a cheerleader!" Jeff looked hurt.
"I wasn't a cheerleader. I was an assistant to the coach. Relax," she snatched it out of his hands and eyed it as if she wanted to burn it. "I knew I should've unpacked that box before you got back."
Jeff reached down into the box and pulled out one of her bras. "You put your cheerleading uniforms with your… undergarments?" Jeff asked.
"Well, I'm glad you're deciding to be proper about it. Give it," Reese said. Jeff held it way over her head and Reese put her hands on her hips. "Do you want to die?"
"No. But I do want black mail. See you tomorrow!" and with that, Jeff left, slamming the door behind him.
Reese went right back to unpacking her clothes. Hunter knew he was blushing furiously, and cursed whatever caused him to blush like that. "Aren't you going to try and get it back?" he asked.
"Later," she looked at him for a minute. "Why do you blush like that? I can't help but find it hilarious."
"I don't know," Hunter looked embarrassed and turned back to his work.
"You do realize that now that I know that I will make it my life's goal to embarrass you as much as I can?" Reese asked.
Hunter's face got a shade darker.
Reese's P.O.V.
Later that night, after eating takeout, Reese was looking through a volume of manga and a piece of paper fluttered out. She picked it up and looked at it suspiciously. She unfolded it and read the contents:
Reese,
Excellent job at Sectionals. Glad to see that you're finally happy. For now.
-L
Reese looked at the note and scrunched her eyebrows together. L? She didn't know anyone whose name started with an L.
A/N: Before anyone has a fit about Thad still being there, let me speak. He is necessary (sort of) to the story line. I know he was on the Council of Upperclassmen in the second season, but we needed to include him for the purpose of having more named Warblers. However, Wes the Gavel-Wielding Warbler has graduated (didn't want to get comments about it...). Until next time...
