"Hurry up, XJ9!" Mom shouted.
"Mom," I whined, "I don't wanna go."
"XJ9, please," Mom said, "This will be an incredible oppurtunity for you to learn about other robots. Most of the time you're always with humans. I think you need to be around people more like yourself."
"But mom," I said, "I like Tremerton High. My friends are there. I won't know any of these robots."
"This could be your only opportunity to be with other robots. Don't let anything like this pass you by."
I sulked as I went outside and got in the car.
"We're supposed to arrive at the airport soon. We'll be right on schedule." Mom said as we got into the car.
I could tell that this would be a long semester.
***
I went through the crowded airport and made my way to the place were I would board the plane to a whole new life. As I handed the woman my ticket, I waved goodbye to mom. She called out, "I love you sweetie!" And I had been embarassed at the time, but I still smiled and waved as I got on the plane.
I had put all of my bags through the luggage center before, except for one which I had held beside me at the time. I was staring at my ticket and trying to look for where I would sit. As I looked up I nearly jumped back. Never before had I seen so many robots. There were so many, you can hardly begin to imagine. A whole plane full of girl robots like me who would go to the same school as me.
I looked back down at my ticket and began to blush. I found my seat and stuffed my one bag above me in the overhead compartment. I sat down next to a girl robot who looked sort of like me, except she was golden colored and had flowers in her pigtails. She was reading a book, but she looked up as I sat down. "Hi, I'm honey," She introduced herself and we shook hands.
"I'm Jenny." I said.
As I sat down I decided to listen to some music, so I took out my headphones and started listening to some music. I sat there for a while just listening to music, until a teacher robot came up to me, plugged a microphone into my headset and screamed, "Ms. Wakeman! May I have your attention!" I put my headphones back into my head as everyone laughed. My first public humiliation at a new school, what joy! The teacher walked back up to the front of the plane and started making an announcement.
The robot next to me chuckled.
"Yeah, yeah," I said sarcasticly, "That's so funny!"
"Sorry," She said, "Don't worry about the teachers though, they're tough. My dad helped build them." She sighed.
"Harsh." I said.
"Tell me about it." Honey said, "So, what were you listening to?"
"Just a little bit of music to pass the time." I said.
The teacher walked over to me again, "Miss Wakeman," Her high-pitched and stern voice said, "How many times must I ask you to plaese pay attention!"
"Sorry." I said, wishing I could disappear.
She walked back up to the front of the plane and continued talking.
"What's she talking about?" I whispered to Honey.
"Nothing, just rules about the school. We'll get a book once we get there, so don't bother to listen." She told me.
"Thank you that will be all." The teacher said suddenly.
Me and Honey laughed.
"What's everyone laughing about?" A girl with long blonde hair and green eyes turned around and asked.
"Oh, nothing." Honey said as she held down a smile.
I held my hand over my face and chuckled. "Um, I'm Jenny." I said, "And this is Honey."
"Nice to meet you guys," She shook our hands, "I'm Alex."
"Hi Alex." I said.
Alex had a nice paint job, she had an orange star on the front of her and her legs were an almost dark blue. She had beautiful pink lips.
"Attention everyone!" An emerald green teacher robot with thick black glasses and a brown bun in her said as she stood in the front of the crowded plane, "There are forms being passed around asking for the electives you want for the semester. Please read through each one carefully and hand them to me before you get off the plane. That is all." She sat down.
Forms were passed to both me and Honey and we said thank you and began looking through them.
"Man, look at these classes," Honey said, "Chemistry, Mechanics, Exploring Technology, they think all us robots like science and technology and that's it! They don't think we have interests."
"Look at the options for Language Arts!" Alex said, "Beginning English, Advanced English, and Creative Writing! That's hardly anything!"
"There are hardly any classes to choose from." I said.
"'Band'" Honey laughed, "Like anyone will take that. They say that the La Grange school band is the worst band in the world."
"I'd rather listen to music than play it." I said.
"Do you listen to Avril Lavigne?" Alex asked me.
"Who's she?" I asked.
"I'll get her CD out of my case." Alex stood up and reached into her overhead compartment.
Just then, the last robot boarded the plane. She had a pink kimono on and a purple pony tail accompanying her two bright red pigtails. Her paint job was a bright red. She was easily one of the most beautiful robots on the plane.
"Excuse me!" She said as she came up to Alex.
"Oh, Sorry," Alex said, "I was just-"
Tsunami cut her off. "Out of my way!" She said as she pushed Alex back into her seat.
"Hey!" I got up and shouted. "You can't do that!"
She laughed. "Ha! Oh now please, who are you?" She asked.
"I'm Jenny." I said, "Jenny Wakeman."
"I'm Tsunami Suzuki." She said, "I'm trained heavily in battle. My whole family is."
"You can't push people around like that!"
"Watch me." Tsunami said and walked to her seat.
"What a meanie." Honey said as she helped Alex back into her seat.
"Who does she think she is treating people like that?" I said as I sat down.
"It's alright you guys." Alex said, "I'll be fine. Anyway, here's an Avril Lavigne CD. Listen to it." She handed it to me.
I shrugged, took it and popped it into my personal CD player. I listened to the first track 'Losing Grip' and I have to admit, I really liked it! She had a very good voice and all the songs were beautifully written. I listened to the CD until Honey lifted one of the headphones up and said, "We're going to lift off soon."
I stopped the CD. "What?!" I had never been in a plane before.
"Attention passengers," The pilot said, "We will be lifting off soon. Please fasten your seatbelts."
Honey calmly snapped her seatbelt together. I just sat there nervous and shaking in my seat.
"Are you ok?" Honey asked.
"Me? I'm fine, never better!" I said, sweating.
"Are you gonna buckle your seatbelt?" she asked.
"Oh, yeah! Of course!" I had a tight grip of the arm rest. "In a minute."
"I'll get that for you."
"No! No! Don't bother. I'll just be getting that now..." I used my stretchy arm and wrapped my arms around the arm rests and then buckled my seatbelt. Honey gave me a weird look.
"I'm fine!" I said, "Never better!"
"Sure." Honey said.
I nervously sat in my seat and closed my eyes. I felt the ground being lifted up underneath me and I nearly cried in fear. And then suddenly, where I expected death, there was nothing. Everything just seemed to stop suddenly and I was nowhere.
"You can go let go of the arm rest." Honey said.
I opened my eyes. Honey was still there. I was still there. We were all still there. Everything had been okay.
"Wheh." I slowly breathed.
That's when I realized that almost everyone was looking at me. I suppose I had looked pretty stupid, sitting there sweating and panting in my seat and holding onto my arm rest for dear life. I hadn't even gotten to the school yet and I already felt like dying from embarassment. The whole rest of the trip I just listened to Alex's Avril Lavigne CD and hoped that no one would remember.
***
"Attention children!" The teacher made another announcement near the end of the flight, "Soon we will be landing. When you leave, please grab a school map and then enter the building and head for the auditorium immediately. That will be all."
I shivered in my seat at the thought of landing.
"Calm down." Honey whispered to me.
"I will, I will." I said.
The plane landed with no embarassment on my part, thank God! Honey and I got up and grabbed our bags in the overhead compartment. Because I had to write my last minute class choice-choir-I ended up falling a little behind Honey as everyone hurried out of the plane like elementary students getting out of a field trip bus. As I shuffled forward, I bumped into another robot and she dropped a small pile of about four books she was carrying.
"My manga!" She screamed and franticly started picking them up.
"Oh, I'm so sorry!" I bent down and helped her pick them up.
"That's okay." She said, "Not your fault."
"I'm Jenny." I said as I handed her the last of her books, which turned out to be Japanese comic books. Apparently, they were called manga.
"I'm Heather." She said, "these are just some comics I read whenever, you know."
"Yeah, mhm." I said as we were pushed out of the plane my various forces.
We all poured into the school and in a vast wave of confusion, we all wildly searched for the auditorium. There was one map you saw straight ahead of you as you walked into the school, and that was it. Nobody knew where they were going.
"Where the hell is the auditorium?!" I heard someone scream.
"Hurry! We have to be there in five minutes!" Another robot shouted.
I turned to Heather. "Where do we go?" I asked, even though I knew that she had no idea.
"Let's just go somewhere!" She grabbed my hand and we ran straight down a hall and didn't look back for one second.
If this were just another fake made-up story, Heather and I would have found the auditorium at the end of that hall, but because this was High School, we ended up in the gymnasium. There was no assembly there, just some guys playing basketball, and any other time Heather and I would have stayed and watched. We had an assembly to go to though, so we started running through halls until we finally found the auditorium-five minutes late!
We tried to sneak in nonchalantly, but almost everyone turned and looked at us. Even though we pretended they didn't. We shuffled to the nearest seat, still trying to be unnoticed and silent, and then we sat down and started to repress the memory.
"As I was saying," The teacher in front, who turned out to be the principal, said, "The La Grange boarding school for robot girls and boys, is the first ever school designed specificly for robots. We ask you to please treat this school like the highly esteemed place it is. You are representing all robots in the future. We expect appropriate and mature conduct from all of you! Now, as you leave, there will be a regristration table outside. Tell them your first and last name, and they will give you an envelope that will have a rule book, room key, and a few other things. On the rooms note, the east wing of this building will be for girls, and the west for boys. Now please exit the auditorium in an orderly fashion, that will be all."
"C'mon! Let's go!" Heather nearly tore my arm off.
I quickly got up and she pulled me through the ravenous crowd to the registration desk.
"Excuse me!" Tsunami said as she headed to the desk. She glared at me. "Hello!" She said.
"Hi." I turned away from her.
"Move it!" She ordered and pushed me to the side. "Tsunami Suzuki." She said sweetly to the registration robot, who only scanned for her file, handed it to her, and then waited for the next robot. An automated robot, very primative.
"I can't belive she did that!" Heather said as she helped me up.
"I'm alright." I said as I rubbed my head. I turned to the registration droid. "Jenny Wakeman." I said.
He handed me my file and I exited the maniacal crowd all fighting over the next spot in line. I opened up my file folder and immediately grabbed my key and searched for my room.
I wandered down numerous halls until I found room 207. The strangest thing happened as I pulled out my key, I heard a 'Caw' noise from the inside. I imagined that I was going crazy and just decided to move all my luggage into my room before thinking about the noise. I opened the door to find a robot with short black hair chasing after a crow. The situation was so awkward and insane that I nearly just turned around and ran screaming. She caught the crow and put him in his cage. "Oh, hi," She said, noticing me for the first time, "Sorry, Simon's lock sometimes gets loose."
"It's okay." I said. I don't think I could have said anything else. I put my suitcases on the floor. I saw that in the room there were three bunkbeds, one desk with a computer and phone on it, and a closet it in the back.
"I'm Molly Stoneheart." She said.
"Jenny Wakeman." I introduced myself.
Molly was painted black all over pretty much. She had short black hair, and looking at her almost made you, well afraid.
I must have looked very frightened, because she said, "I was built to work at an amusement park."
"What kind of amusement park?" I asked.
"A haunted house." She said.
"Oh, I get it." I said, "That's why you're so-" I stopped myself, "Um...black."
"I know, I know," Molly said, "I look just plain scary, but hey, I was built this way, and I suppose I can't change that."
I smiled nervously. "So how many people, er, robots will be in this room?"
"Six."
I gasped. "In this tiny room?! This could barely hold four!"
"Low budget." Molly said.
Another girl walked into our room right then. She looked the place up and down and carried her several bags in. "Nice looking closet," She said, "Where's the room?"
"This is the room," Molly said irritably, "Now pick a bed."
"THIS is the room?" she could barely believe it. "This isn't even as big as the servant's rooms at my house! And trust me, my mom and dad didn't overpay for the servants."
"Do you want a top or bottom bunk?" Molly grew impatient.
"I'm Jenny." I extended my hand to hers.
She looked me as Brit and Tiff had many a time. "I'm Ruby." She said without touching my hand.
Ruby had a paint job that was a pink color, and she was embedded with many rubies. Hence her name. She was as beautiful as Tsunami.
The bunk beds were arranged with one against the wall opposite the door, and another on the left, and the last on the right. She tossed all of her bags on the top bunk farthest away from the door. Molly's was on the right. "I'm going to get the rest of my things." She left.
"What's her problem?" I asked after the door slammed shut.
"Her parents are rich and bought her from a scientist." Molly said, "They found a ruby mine several years ago and ever since have been making a fortune off the jewels. It's all gone to her head."
"Oh." I said.
For some reason, I felt sorry for her.
Just as I had put my luggage on the remaining top bunk, we heard the door open, but instead of Ruby coming back, there was a different robot there. She had a purple ponytail with a curve to it, and her top was painted white and the rest of her was red. "I'm Jazz." She said.
"I'm Jenny." I shook her hand, it was nice seeing a smiling face in our room.
Molly gave her a slight look. "Molly." She said.
Jazz gave Molly an almost-dirty look.
"You can have the bed under mine." I offered, trying to keep her from getting mad at Molly. It seemed as if no one liked her.
"Sure." Jazz said, smiling again, as she put her bags on the bottom bunk.
"I cannot believe it!" Ruby shouted as she walked in, "No bellboy is out there to get my things! How am I supposed to survive in this dump?!"
Jazz frowned again. I winced. I didn't see an easy year coming.
"Jenny," Ruby said, "Would you be a dear and carry my things in. I'm absolutely exhausted."
"It must be pain-staking doing your own work." Molly said sarcasticly.
"Excuse me?" Ruby said sharply.
"What?" Molly said.
"Did I just hear what I think I did?" Ruby said.
"You mean what I just said about you being lazy and obnoxious?"
"Do you even know who I am?" Ruby said, "I'm Ruby Proy! Daughter to Mark and Lily Proy who own the world-famous Proy Ruby foundation!"
"So?" Molly said.
"SO?! I could have your name trashed into bits if I wanted. Don't push me." Ruby said.
"Just because you're one of them doesn't mean you have the right to tell me what to do!"
Ruby sneered. "You better watch it Morticia." Ruby turned to me again, "Come Jenny. I am in need of your assistance."
She grabbed my arm, and I never said a word, was just dragged through the door.
I don't get it, I thought, Why does she like me? What did I do?
"Here we are," Ruby announced.
My jaw dropped. She must have had six bags sitting outside our door.
"What is all this stuff?" I asked as I picked up two bags.
"Personal items." She answered stuffily.
We dragged all her luggage into the room. I nearily tore an arm off dragging that stuff.
Ruby watched me as I did. "Don't break anything." She said as if I was a hired hand.
I sneered at her, but she didn't seem to notice.
She smiled as I finished. "Thank you, dear." She said.
"Um, my name is Jenny." I said.
"Whatever." She rolled her eyes.
***
Woo-hoo! Finally chapter two! Yeah, um, oh yeah, I must be giving credit now!
Ruby belongs to me
Tsunami and Molly belong to Anthony Logatto
Heather belongs to HeatherRobot
Alex belongs to Invader Alex
Honey belongs to HoneyGirl
Jazz belongs to Brytt Bratt
Jenny belongs to Rob Renzetti
Alright, I think that's everyone. Sorry if I massacred any characters! BTW, these aren't all the robots that will be there, more introduced in the next chapters, I promise.
"Mom," I whined, "I don't wanna go."
"XJ9, please," Mom said, "This will be an incredible oppurtunity for you to learn about other robots. Most of the time you're always with humans. I think you need to be around people more like yourself."
"But mom," I said, "I like Tremerton High. My friends are there. I won't know any of these robots."
"This could be your only opportunity to be with other robots. Don't let anything like this pass you by."
I sulked as I went outside and got in the car.
"We're supposed to arrive at the airport soon. We'll be right on schedule." Mom said as we got into the car.
I could tell that this would be a long semester.
***
I went through the crowded airport and made my way to the place were I would board the plane to a whole new life. As I handed the woman my ticket, I waved goodbye to mom. She called out, "I love you sweetie!" And I had been embarassed at the time, but I still smiled and waved as I got on the plane.
I had put all of my bags through the luggage center before, except for one which I had held beside me at the time. I was staring at my ticket and trying to look for where I would sit. As I looked up I nearly jumped back. Never before had I seen so many robots. There were so many, you can hardly begin to imagine. A whole plane full of girl robots like me who would go to the same school as me.
I looked back down at my ticket and began to blush. I found my seat and stuffed my one bag above me in the overhead compartment. I sat down next to a girl robot who looked sort of like me, except she was golden colored and had flowers in her pigtails. She was reading a book, but she looked up as I sat down. "Hi, I'm honey," She introduced herself and we shook hands.
"I'm Jenny." I said.
As I sat down I decided to listen to some music, so I took out my headphones and started listening to some music. I sat there for a while just listening to music, until a teacher robot came up to me, plugged a microphone into my headset and screamed, "Ms. Wakeman! May I have your attention!" I put my headphones back into my head as everyone laughed. My first public humiliation at a new school, what joy! The teacher walked back up to the front of the plane and started making an announcement.
The robot next to me chuckled.
"Yeah, yeah," I said sarcasticly, "That's so funny!"
"Sorry," She said, "Don't worry about the teachers though, they're tough. My dad helped build them." She sighed.
"Harsh." I said.
"Tell me about it." Honey said, "So, what were you listening to?"
"Just a little bit of music to pass the time." I said.
The teacher walked over to me again, "Miss Wakeman," Her high-pitched and stern voice said, "How many times must I ask you to plaese pay attention!"
"Sorry." I said, wishing I could disappear.
She walked back up to the front of the plane and continued talking.
"What's she talking about?" I whispered to Honey.
"Nothing, just rules about the school. We'll get a book once we get there, so don't bother to listen." She told me.
"Thank you that will be all." The teacher said suddenly.
Me and Honey laughed.
"What's everyone laughing about?" A girl with long blonde hair and green eyes turned around and asked.
"Oh, nothing." Honey said as she held down a smile.
I held my hand over my face and chuckled. "Um, I'm Jenny." I said, "And this is Honey."
"Nice to meet you guys," She shook our hands, "I'm Alex."
"Hi Alex." I said.
Alex had a nice paint job, she had an orange star on the front of her and her legs were an almost dark blue. She had beautiful pink lips.
"Attention everyone!" An emerald green teacher robot with thick black glasses and a brown bun in her said as she stood in the front of the crowded plane, "There are forms being passed around asking for the electives you want for the semester. Please read through each one carefully and hand them to me before you get off the plane. That is all." She sat down.
Forms were passed to both me and Honey and we said thank you and began looking through them.
"Man, look at these classes," Honey said, "Chemistry, Mechanics, Exploring Technology, they think all us robots like science and technology and that's it! They don't think we have interests."
"Look at the options for Language Arts!" Alex said, "Beginning English, Advanced English, and Creative Writing! That's hardly anything!"
"There are hardly any classes to choose from." I said.
"'Band'" Honey laughed, "Like anyone will take that. They say that the La Grange school band is the worst band in the world."
"I'd rather listen to music than play it." I said.
"Do you listen to Avril Lavigne?" Alex asked me.
"Who's she?" I asked.
"I'll get her CD out of my case." Alex stood up and reached into her overhead compartment.
Just then, the last robot boarded the plane. She had a pink kimono on and a purple pony tail accompanying her two bright red pigtails. Her paint job was a bright red. She was easily one of the most beautiful robots on the plane.
"Excuse me!" She said as she came up to Alex.
"Oh, Sorry," Alex said, "I was just-"
Tsunami cut her off. "Out of my way!" She said as she pushed Alex back into her seat.
"Hey!" I got up and shouted. "You can't do that!"
She laughed. "Ha! Oh now please, who are you?" She asked.
"I'm Jenny." I said, "Jenny Wakeman."
"I'm Tsunami Suzuki." She said, "I'm trained heavily in battle. My whole family is."
"You can't push people around like that!"
"Watch me." Tsunami said and walked to her seat.
"What a meanie." Honey said as she helped Alex back into her seat.
"Who does she think she is treating people like that?" I said as I sat down.
"It's alright you guys." Alex said, "I'll be fine. Anyway, here's an Avril Lavigne CD. Listen to it." She handed it to me.
I shrugged, took it and popped it into my personal CD player. I listened to the first track 'Losing Grip' and I have to admit, I really liked it! She had a very good voice and all the songs were beautifully written. I listened to the CD until Honey lifted one of the headphones up and said, "We're going to lift off soon."
I stopped the CD. "What?!" I had never been in a plane before.
"Attention passengers," The pilot said, "We will be lifting off soon. Please fasten your seatbelts."
Honey calmly snapped her seatbelt together. I just sat there nervous and shaking in my seat.
"Are you ok?" Honey asked.
"Me? I'm fine, never better!" I said, sweating.
"Are you gonna buckle your seatbelt?" she asked.
"Oh, yeah! Of course!" I had a tight grip of the arm rest. "In a minute."
"I'll get that for you."
"No! No! Don't bother. I'll just be getting that now..." I used my stretchy arm and wrapped my arms around the arm rests and then buckled my seatbelt. Honey gave me a weird look.
"I'm fine!" I said, "Never better!"
"Sure." Honey said.
I nervously sat in my seat and closed my eyes. I felt the ground being lifted up underneath me and I nearly cried in fear. And then suddenly, where I expected death, there was nothing. Everything just seemed to stop suddenly and I was nowhere.
"You can go let go of the arm rest." Honey said.
I opened my eyes. Honey was still there. I was still there. We were all still there. Everything had been okay.
"Wheh." I slowly breathed.
That's when I realized that almost everyone was looking at me. I suppose I had looked pretty stupid, sitting there sweating and panting in my seat and holding onto my arm rest for dear life. I hadn't even gotten to the school yet and I already felt like dying from embarassment. The whole rest of the trip I just listened to Alex's Avril Lavigne CD and hoped that no one would remember.
***
"Attention children!" The teacher made another announcement near the end of the flight, "Soon we will be landing. When you leave, please grab a school map and then enter the building and head for the auditorium immediately. That will be all."
I shivered in my seat at the thought of landing.
"Calm down." Honey whispered to me.
"I will, I will." I said.
The plane landed with no embarassment on my part, thank God! Honey and I got up and grabbed our bags in the overhead compartment. Because I had to write my last minute class choice-choir-I ended up falling a little behind Honey as everyone hurried out of the plane like elementary students getting out of a field trip bus. As I shuffled forward, I bumped into another robot and she dropped a small pile of about four books she was carrying.
"My manga!" She screamed and franticly started picking them up.
"Oh, I'm so sorry!" I bent down and helped her pick them up.
"That's okay." She said, "Not your fault."
"I'm Jenny." I said as I handed her the last of her books, which turned out to be Japanese comic books. Apparently, they were called manga.
"I'm Heather." She said, "these are just some comics I read whenever, you know."
"Yeah, mhm." I said as we were pushed out of the plane my various forces.
We all poured into the school and in a vast wave of confusion, we all wildly searched for the auditorium. There was one map you saw straight ahead of you as you walked into the school, and that was it. Nobody knew where they were going.
"Where the hell is the auditorium?!" I heard someone scream.
"Hurry! We have to be there in five minutes!" Another robot shouted.
I turned to Heather. "Where do we go?" I asked, even though I knew that she had no idea.
"Let's just go somewhere!" She grabbed my hand and we ran straight down a hall and didn't look back for one second.
If this were just another fake made-up story, Heather and I would have found the auditorium at the end of that hall, but because this was High School, we ended up in the gymnasium. There was no assembly there, just some guys playing basketball, and any other time Heather and I would have stayed and watched. We had an assembly to go to though, so we started running through halls until we finally found the auditorium-five minutes late!
We tried to sneak in nonchalantly, but almost everyone turned and looked at us. Even though we pretended they didn't. We shuffled to the nearest seat, still trying to be unnoticed and silent, and then we sat down and started to repress the memory.
"As I was saying," The teacher in front, who turned out to be the principal, said, "The La Grange boarding school for robot girls and boys, is the first ever school designed specificly for robots. We ask you to please treat this school like the highly esteemed place it is. You are representing all robots in the future. We expect appropriate and mature conduct from all of you! Now, as you leave, there will be a regristration table outside. Tell them your first and last name, and they will give you an envelope that will have a rule book, room key, and a few other things. On the rooms note, the east wing of this building will be for girls, and the west for boys. Now please exit the auditorium in an orderly fashion, that will be all."
"C'mon! Let's go!" Heather nearly tore my arm off.
I quickly got up and she pulled me through the ravenous crowd to the registration desk.
"Excuse me!" Tsunami said as she headed to the desk. She glared at me. "Hello!" She said.
"Hi." I turned away from her.
"Move it!" She ordered and pushed me to the side. "Tsunami Suzuki." She said sweetly to the registration robot, who only scanned for her file, handed it to her, and then waited for the next robot. An automated robot, very primative.
"I can't belive she did that!" Heather said as she helped me up.
"I'm alright." I said as I rubbed my head. I turned to the registration droid. "Jenny Wakeman." I said.
He handed me my file and I exited the maniacal crowd all fighting over the next spot in line. I opened up my file folder and immediately grabbed my key and searched for my room.
I wandered down numerous halls until I found room 207. The strangest thing happened as I pulled out my key, I heard a 'Caw' noise from the inside. I imagined that I was going crazy and just decided to move all my luggage into my room before thinking about the noise. I opened the door to find a robot with short black hair chasing after a crow. The situation was so awkward and insane that I nearly just turned around and ran screaming. She caught the crow and put him in his cage. "Oh, hi," She said, noticing me for the first time, "Sorry, Simon's lock sometimes gets loose."
"It's okay." I said. I don't think I could have said anything else. I put my suitcases on the floor. I saw that in the room there were three bunkbeds, one desk with a computer and phone on it, and a closet it in the back.
"I'm Molly Stoneheart." She said.
"Jenny Wakeman." I introduced myself.
Molly was painted black all over pretty much. She had short black hair, and looking at her almost made you, well afraid.
I must have looked very frightened, because she said, "I was built to work at an amusement park."
"What kind of amusement park?" I asked.
"A haunted house." She said.
"Oh, I get it." I said, "That's why you're so-" I stopped myself, "Um...black."
"I know, I know," Molly said, "I look just plain scary, but hey, I was built this way, and I suppose I can't change that."
I smiled nervously. "So how many people, er, robots will be in this room?"
"Six."
I gasped. "In this tiny room?! This could barely hold four!"
"Low budget." Molly said.
Another girl walked into our room right then. She looked the place up and down and carried her several bags in. "Nice looking closet," She said, "Where's the room?"
"This is the room," Molly said irritably, "Now pick a bed."
"THIS is the room?" she could barely believe it. "This isn't even as big as the servant's rooms at my house! And trust me, my mom and dad didn't overpay for the servants."
"Do you want a top or bottom bunk?" Molly grew impatient.
"I'm Jenny." I extended my hand to hers.
She looked me as Brit and Tiff had many a time. "I'm Ruby." She said without touching my hand.
Ruby had a paint job that was a pink color, and she was embedded with many rubies. Hence her name. She was as beautiful as Tsunami.
The bunk beds were arranged with one against the wall opposite the door, and another on the left, and the last on the right. She tossed all of her bags on the top bunk farthest away from the door. Molly's was on the right. "I'm going to get the rest of my things." She left.
"What's her problem?" I asked after the door slammed shut.
"Her parents are rich and bought her from a scientist." Molly said, "They found a ruby mine several years ago and ever since have been making a fortune off the jewels. It's all gone to her head."
"Oh." I said.
For some reason, I felt sorry for her.
Just as I had put my luggage on the remaining top bunk, we heard the door open, but instead of Ruby coming back, there was a different robot there. She had a purple ponytail with a curve to it, and her top was painted white and the rest of her was red. "I'm Jazz." She said.
"I'm Jenny." I shook her hand, it was nice seeing a smiling face in our room.
Molly gave her a slight look. "Molly." She said.
Jazz gave Molly an almost-dirty look.
"You can have the bed under mine." I offered, trying to keep her from getting mad at Molly. It seemed as if no one liked her.
"Sure." Jazz said, smiling again, as she put her bags on the bottom bunk.
"I cannot believe it!" Ruby shouted as she walked in, "No bellboy is out there to get my things! How am I supposed to survive in this dump?!"
Jazz frowned again. I winced. I didn't see an easy year coming.
"Jenny," Ruby said, "Would you be a dear and carry my things in. I'm absolutely exhausted."
"It must be pain-staking doing your own work." Molly said sarcasticly.
"Excuse me?" Ruby said sharply.
"What?" Molly said.
"Did I just hear what I think I did?" Ruby said.
"You mean what I just said about you being lazy and obnoxious?"
"Do you even know who I am?" Ruby said, "I'm Ruby Proy! Daughter to Mark and Lily Proy who own the world-famous Proy Ruby foundation!"
"So?" Molly said.
"SO?! I could have your name trashed into bits if I wanted. Don't push me." Ruby said.
"Just because you're one of them doesn't mean you have the right to tell me what to do!"
Ruby sneered. "You better watch it Morticia." Ruby turned to me again, "Come Jenny. I am in need of your assistance."
She grabbed my arm, and I never said a word, was just dragged through the door.
I don't get it, I thought, Why does she like me? What did I do?
"Here we are," Ruby announced.
My jaw dropped. She must have had six bags sitting outside our door.
"What is all this stuff?" I asked as I picked up two bags.
"Personal items." She answered stuffily.
We dragged all her luggage into the room. I nearily tore an arm off dragging that stuff.
Ruby watched me as I did. "Don't break anything." She said as if I was a hired hand.
I sneered at her, but she didn't seem to notice.
She smiled as I finished. "Thank you, dear." She said.
"Um, my name is Jenny." I said.
"Whatever." She rolled her eyes.
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Woo-hoo! Finally chapter two! Yeah, um, oh yeah, I must be giving credit now!
Ruby belongs to me
Tsunami and Molly belong to Anthony Logatto
Heather belongs to HeatherRobot
Alex belongs to Invader Alex
Honey belongs to HoneyGirl
Jazz belongs to Brytt Bratt
Jenny belongs to Rob Renzetti
Alright, I think that's everyone. Sorry if I massacred any characters! BTW, these aren't all the robots that will be there, more introduced in the next chapters, I promise.