Here's the next chapter. And it's the 50th chapter! Yay! Enjoy! I don't own Lost.

Chapter 47: Ordinary Day

Just a day, just an ordinary day
Just trying to get by.
Just a boy,
Just an ordinary boy.
But he was looking to the sky –
Ordinary Day by Vanessa Carlton

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'she looks like she's a slut.'

Mallory turned around suddenly and shot the blonde girl an icy look.

'say that again,' Mallory snapped. 'I dare you.'

The blonde smirked and raised an eyebrow, looking at Mallory's eight month pregnant belly.

'she looks like a slut, don't you agree, Ally?' she asked the girl next to her.

The girl nodded vigorously.

'oh, look, it's two little Freshman who think they're top shit and don't know their place!' Mallory exclaimed. 'maybe someone should put them in their place, hmm?'

'and I suppose you're going to try?' the girl sneered. From the thirty seconds of arguing with her, Mallory figured that the girl was used to be the best of the best, and prided herself on her severe attitude problem. But if this girl wanted to play in the big leagues she'd have to up her fucking game.

'oh step to it, bitch. I will cut you if I have to,' she threatened, advancing on her.

At that moment, Radovan, Bojan and Chad ran up.

'hey!' Radovan exclaimed. 'what's going on?'

'if it's a catfight, I want front row seats,' Bo said.

Chad put his arm around the blonde girl.

'what's going on?' he asked her.

'she's just attacking us for no reason, Chad,' the girl said. 'I think she's crazy.'

'you ain't seen crazy yet. I will kill you,' Mallory snapped.

'whoa, Mallory, let's all just calm down,' Chad said.

'whoa, Dawson,' she mocked him. 'maybe you should put your bitch back on her lead before I fucking put her down!'

'Mal,' Radovan warned softly.

'so which one of these two knocked you up?' the blonde sneered, looking at the twins on either side of her, each with a hand on her arm to stop her from hurting the blonde.

'neither,' she hissed angrily, really not wanting to go into it. Not only was it a touchy subject with her, Radovan always had a reaction to it, a bad reaction to it.

'oh, so some other sad idiot had no brains and decided to?' she asked.

Bojan turned to Chad angrily, being the one person apart from Radovan and Mallory who knew the exact details of when and to who she got pregnant.

'take Mal's advice and get your bitch away,' he told him.

Chad put his arm around the blonde again. 'Chloe, let's go.'

He led her away and Mallory leaned into Radovan, whose arms instinctively went around her, his hands resting on her stomach. Mallory sighed then smiled when she felt a kick from the baby. She looked to see that Radovan had felt it too and was smiling.

'what?' Bo asked, seeing the smiles on their faces, and being confused. After all, all three had been angry seconds ago.

Mallory reached out to him, and took his hand, placing it on her stomach. He still looked confused, but then smiled along with them at another kick.

'that's awesome,' he told her sincerely but got distracted quickly. 'well, hello,' he muttered, seeing a tall beauty walk into the school.

In perfect unison, Mallory and Radovan rolled their eyes.

'I...I'll see you guys later, okay?' Bo said, running after the girl.

Mallory heard what sounded like a pick up line, and sighed. 'same old Bo, huh?'

'same old Bo,' Radovan agreed. He put an arm around her as they began to walk. 'you okay?' he asked her.

'yeah,' she sighed. 'I just need to learn not to react to being called a slut. I get angry and she kicks me, and it hurts, so I need to stop getting angry.'

'I heard meditation keeps you calm. Very Zen,' he joked.

Mallory shoved him, but she was laughing.

'I'm just an angry person,' she said.

'totally,' Radovan said, rolling his eyes and putting his arm around her again. 'what dorm are you in?'

'815a,' she said. 'you?'

'815b,' he smiled. 'let's get going, then.'

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Jasmine Rivers had arrived on campus a day early and had ended up falling asleep on the couch in the main living area of her dorm, so she was not prepared for being rudely awakened at seven in the morning by her new roommates bursting into the room singing "Don't Trust Me" by 3OH!3 at the top of their not too inconsiderable lungs.

'Don't trust a hoe, never trust a hoe, won't trust a hoe, won't trust me!' the three girls sang loudly.

Jasmine sat up and gave them confused looks.

'uh...hey?' she tried.

'hey!' one of the blonde girls exclaimed, taking a piece of paper from off the wall. 'I'm Shannon...you must be...either Jasmine or Zooey?'

'I'm Jazz,' she smiled.

'hey, this is Raziya, or Raz, and M-'

'I'm Maddyson Dawson, head cheerleader, as you already know,' Maddyson interrupted Shannon's introductions to make it known that she was definitely the person who would be the leader of this dorm.

'yeah, a spot you stole from me,' Shannon muttered, crossing her arms over her chest, still evidently angry at Maddyson becoming captain.

Maddyson shot Shannon a look. 'do you cheer yet, Jazzy Girl?' Maddyson gave the girl a hug.

'uh, no,' she said. 'well, I haven't tried it yet, but I...maybe?'

'great, be at tryouts then,' Maddyson smiled.

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Mallory and Radovan stopped in front of Mallory's dorm.

'I'll see you later,' Mallory said to him. He smiled and nodded, placing a kiss on her cheek as he continued walking and she walked in her dorm. And then she stopped short.

It wasn't because of the fact that the dorms were a lot bigger now, having a main living area, with four (she found out later that some had five) smaller room, bedrooms, coming off them, with a bathroom at the end.

She stopped short because she saw her roommates. Claire and Roma, who she didn't particularly like. And then another girl she didn't know, who had dark red hair.

'hey there,' the new girl smiled at her, in a Southern accent.

Mallory ignored her and turned to the other two. 'is there any reason I'm with you two of all people?' she asked.

'well, I think it's because we know what it's like to have someone like you in our dorm, as we spent most of last year with Lea,' Claire said.

'okay..?' Mallory offered, moving her bag from in front of her stomach and placing it on the ground with her other bags.

The new girl gasped, seeing her pregnant stomach for the first time and Mallory looked at her icily.

'do you have a problem with it?' she asked.

'uh, no,' she said quickly, putting a hand up to her necklace. A cross, Mallory realized. She was religious.

'whatever your problem is, say it now, or so help me, it will lead to your face being caved in, in the coming weeks,' she said.

The girl looked uncomfortable. 'umm...I'm Gabriella Hadasa. I lived in Alabama until a couple of weeks ago. I am a religious girl, and I don't think it's a good thing you are pregnant at such a young age. God would be-'

'alright, you're done,' Mallory said.

'but, no, I'm not,' Gabriella said earnestly.

'look,' Mallory gritted her teeth. 'I don't believe in God. So whatever he thinks of me, I don't care. He is your God. They are your rules. You burn in Hell.'

'oh, no,' the girl said. 'I would never tell someone to-'

'shut it, Hadasa. I don't care.'

'but I think you don't know what I mean.'

'I do. You would rather that I follow God, despite there is no such thing,' she said angrily. She suddenly put a hand on her stomach.

'Mallory?' Roma asked. 'you okay, darling?'

'yeah,' she said. 'I know,' she muttered, looking at her stomach. 'I'll try to calm down.'

The others looked at her in wonder.

'as you know, I'm not a calm person,' Mallory explained. 'the baby kicks me when I get angry. Just keeps kicking.'

'what makes you calm down easily?' Gabriella asked.

'look, stop asking questions, and walk to 816a. Just say...'

'East needs calming,' Roma supplied.

'what does that mean?' Gabriella wondered.

'just do it,' Claire said calmly to her.

'Nadine's there,' Mallory explained to them.

'she's back? Sweet,' Roma said.

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Nila had met a girl. A girl called Iris, a girl from Egypt. From what she could gather, she was the younger sister of the Abdou's, and she was a lot shyer than them.

It turned out that the two of them were in the same dorm, so they headed there, talking animatedly.

They opened the door and were met with loud music that they had first assumed had been coming from another dorm room, but no, it was theirs. Also in the room there were two girls, one Nila already knew, Charlotte Lewis, and then another girl, one who looked vaguely familiar.

And the two of them were smoking joints, with vodka next to them.

'uh...hi,' Nila said slowly.

'hey there, Israel!' Charlotte's words were slurred but she still got her point across. 'and other chick!'

Nila had always maintained that a drunk Charlotte Lewis was not good, but she still drank anyway.

Iris looked horrified at this display, but she was not saying anything at all.

'so...where you from, other chick?' Charlotte asked.

'E...Egypt,' she stuttered.

'like Adbou Egypt?' she asked, which everyone at the school knew to mean that it was a question of whether she was or knew an Abdou. 'Abdou,' she corrected, laughing.

'yes. I'm Iris,' she said softly.

'I'm Charlotte,' she said. 'and this is-'

'the one and only, fresh out of juvy, Brooke Hall!' the other girl exclaimed, and it clicked with Nila were she saw her. She had seen her on TV, for her crimes.

Iris paled and met eyes with Nila.

They had a criminal in their dorm.

Great.

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Gabriella had been to 816a, and was told that Nadine wasn't there. Her roommates, however, had told her that that Nadine was currently in the common room, so Gabriella was just entering there now.

There were many people; she wondered how she was going to find Nadine, but then she saw a girl who looked like Mallory, talking to two boys, obviously twins, and another two girls.

She walked over to them. 'umm, Nadine, right?'

'well, hey there,' Bo said to her flirtatiously. Nadine looked at him in disgust and Ella hit him for her.

'thank you, Ella,' Nadine said before turning to Gabriella. 'I don't know you, do I?'

'no. I have a message to pass onto you, though,' she said.

'well, what is it?' Ella demanded impatiently when she made no move to continue.

'umm, East needs calming,' she passed on.

And suddenly she had all of their undivided attention.

'where is she?' Ella asked, actually concerned for the Wicked Witch of the East.

'she's in our dorm, and she's getting angry and apparently you calm her down easily,' the girl looked slightly distressed that she had caused that of Mallory.

'let's go then,' Nadine said.

.. ..

Cerise Jacobson fanned herself with her hand dramatically.

'wow, the eye candy at this school!' she exclaimed, watching as the track team already started doing laps – and it seemed doing so shirtless was their new thing.

'I know!' Kiya exclaimed excitedly, staring in awe at the abs that she had heard from Jen and Raz that Sin had, but until now she hadn't believed them.

'and oh my God!' Cerise exclaimed. 'who is that?' she pointed at a boy actually jogging towards them, shirtless.

Before Kiya could answer, the boy hugged her.

'hey, Kiya,' he smiled. 'how you been, kid?'

'I've been good,' she smiled. 'you have ink now?' she asked, looking at the tattoo. 'nice. She like it?'

'she loves it,' he smiled.

Leo smiled before rejoining the team and Cerise picked up her jaw from the ground.

'who is that? How do you know him?' she demanded. 'more to the point, who are you?' she asked, as the two hadn't met properly, they just both had been watching the team.

'that's Leo Pasanda, he's my sister's boyfriend,' Kiya explained. 'I'm Kiya. And you...?'

'Cerise,' she smiled, still eyeing Leo.

'God, he is hot,' she muttered to herself.

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'stop bloody kicking me!'

The group entered Mallory's dorm to hear her yelling at her stomach, with Claire and Roma standing helplessly to the side.

'uh, Mal, how about you just calm down?' Claire suggested timidly, for what may have been the tenth time.

'shut up!' Mallory exclaimed before turning on Gabriella. 'thanks for this!'

'what'd you do to her?' Nadine asked.

'tried to shove her bigoted views of God down my throat,' Mallory snapped.

Nadine and Radovan cringed, knowing exactly what that meant.

'and now for those of us who can't read Mallory like a book?' Bo said sarcastically.

'Mal's agnostic, and once you start talking religion to her, she gets violent,' Nadine explained.

'only then?' Claire muttered sarcastically and Roma giggled.

Mallory threw a book across the room at them and they ducked.

This was gonna be a long year.

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Jason, Luke and Liz stared at Darren, who was holding Harmony. After a week spent crashing at the Shephard's house, Jason and Matt had gone home, leaving Darren there, and Jason still wasn't used to Darren being with Harmony.

'what?' he finally asked.

'it's just...weird,' Liz said.

'again I'll ask...am I tripping?' Jason asked.

'I really hope not, because I will kill you for being so close to my child while tripping,' Lea walked up behind them, and took a seat on the armrest of Darren's chair.

'so, you're the mother,' Liz said. 'hmmm.'

'Elizabeth, just stop,' Darren sighed, knowing exactly what Liz was about to say.

There was a shriek of joy and Claire, Roma, Ella, Raz and Maddyson joined them, all of them had rushed to get away from Mallory's anger.

'shut up!' Lea hissed, gesturing to the sleeping baby.

'sorry, sorry,' Raz said, giving her a quick hug.

'ladies,' Jason said, winking at them.

Claire turned to Darren. 'are all your friends like this?'

'uh huh,' Darren said.

'Lea,' Claire said. 'you need to tell Mallory of meditation. Teach it to her. Please.'

'...why?' Lea asked, slightly confused.

'because we're in her dorm this year, and she's a psychopath,' Roma said bluntly.

'she's not a psychopath, she's just hormonal,' Lea argued and they continued staring at her. 'fine. I'll talk to her,' she sighed.

Matt joined them then too, and he looked at the girls. 'hello, beautiful,' he gave Claire a kiss and she smiled. 'Sunshine,' he kissed Roma's hand. 'Xena,' he went to kiss Ella's hand, but she pulled away. 'Princess,' he kissed Raz's cheek, they were a lot closer than he was with the others. 'Barbie,' he held out his hand to Maddyson, who gave him a cold look. 'and finally, Smurfette, who doesn't actually look like a Smurf anymore,' he smiled at Lea, who wrapped her arms around him and kissed his cheek.

'what's with the red hair?' Matt asked Lea.

'I was sick of the blue,' Lea shrugged. 'and besides, it's wine red.'

'and of course,' Matt turned to Elizabeth. 'Poison Ivy.'

'Matthew,' she said. 'just dream on.'

Matt ignored her and looked back at Claire, smirking. 'nice t-shirt,' he told her.

She grinned at him, and the others read what it said. It had two arrows pointing up and it said: "My eyes are up here".

'that's perfect for him,' Ella commented about Matt's ability to let his gaze wander when talking to Claire.

Or any girl for that matter.

'where's Kara?' Liz asked, looking around, as if just noticing she was absent.

'well, judging by the fact she's not fooling around with you, Liz, or me,' Jason began. 'she's fooling around with someone else. Although she'll come back to one of us later. Maybe both at the same time?' he raised an eyebrow suggestively.

'no thanks, Mr Rum n' Punch,' she snapped.

'just a warning,' Darren said to all the single girls there. 'this is Jason, and he's worse than Matt.'

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Charlie strummed his guitar, only half listening as the new guy in their dorm, Tony or something explained where he was from, sometimes with Charlie interjecting about having been to that place – just like Charlie, Tony was an English guy. Sammy sometimes looked up, but mostly looked uninterested as he texted Jen – or who Charlie thought must have been Jen, by the small smile on his face.

Suddenly, the door to Sin's room opened, and they all looked up, watching as out walked a shirtless Sin and an Asian girl pulling a t-shirt over her bare chest – a sight all the guys didn't complain about.

'pleasure to meet you, Sin,' she said seductively.

'and you too, Kara,' Sin smirked.

Kara looked past him to the other three. 'boys,' she looked them up and down in appreciation before she walked out.

'who was that?' Charlie eventually pulled his jaw off the ground.

'that was Kara,' Sin shrugged. 'Nakamura.'

'Matt has a sister?' Charlie asked.

'oh, who cares?' Sammy asked before looking at Sin. 'does this mean you're over Jen?'

'are you?'

'not in the slightest,' Sammy told him.

'then neither am I,' Sin said.

Tony looked between the two boys who were glaring at each other.

'this year will be highly interesting,' he muttered.

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I hoped you liked it. As you can see, some rivalries and friendships are already starting to be formed, but unfortunately for you all, you won't be able to see the development of it for awhile. NaNoWriMo starts in a couple hours, so I'm busy for the next month. Plus exams in that month. So year.

Happy Halloween!

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