Home?

Lucas walked into Josie and Corrine's dorm room. Josie was sitting at her desk with her headphones on, her head lying on top of a science book, asleep. Lucas walked over to her and lightly shook her. Josie's head shot up fast.

'What?' She looked towards Lucas. 'Lucas? What are you doing here?'

'I came to see how the new girl is doing.' Lucas leaned against the desk that Josie was sitting next to. 'So? How's she doing?'

'She's doing fine.' Josie stood up and went over to the side of her bed where the girl lay. 'She got here, we gave her some clothes, she put her head on the pillow and has been asleep ever since. What time is it?'

'11:30. At night.' Lucas promptly replied.

'Then what are you doing here?'

'Remember? We're taking shifts, we're also having a big sleep over in mine and Marshall's room. It's my shift.'

'Great! I'm wiped. Here,' she handed him a walkie-talkie. 'She wakes up? Shout us a holler, we'll get over as fast as we can without getting caught.' She grabbed her duffle bag. 'Thanks Lucas and see you in the morning.' Josie left her room leaving Lucas who went and sat in the chair by the desk. He started to leaf through the science book that Josie had left behind. His time slot was until 5 am tomorrow morning, by the time it had reached midnight, Lucas was sleeping soundly on top of the Science book his glasses askew.

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'Argh!' Lucas awoke with a start to a shrill scream. He readjusted his glasses and looked towards the girl who was now cowering in fear. She opened his mouth to scream again but Lucas stopped her with his hand over her mouth.

'I'm not gonna hurt you.' He looked into her widened eyes. 'Now promise me, that when I remove my hand you won't scream.' She nodded her head. Slowly Lucas removed his hand from the girls' mouth and sat down at the end of the bed. 'See? Not so hard.' The girl smiled shyly at him, then looked enquiringly at him.

'Why are you being so nice to me?' The girl asked him in a more relaxed tone to yesterday.

'Why shouldn't I be?'

'You are the first male I have met who has not ordered to take off my clothes and lie down.' Lucas looked at the girl in shock whilst still looking directly in her eyes. Josie walked through the door expecting to see only Lucas awake.

'Lucas?' Josie spoke to him. Lucas finally broke away from the mysterious girl's eyes and looked towards Josie.

'Yeah?'

'Why didn't you call t tell us she was awake?'

'I only just woke up,' The girl spoke in Lucas' defence. 'Lucas here was just trying to calm me down.' Lucas was in shock again, he was mesmerised by the way she had said his name.

'Okay then,' Josie spoke up. 'Lucas why don't you go and get everyone else, whilst I help our visitor here get showered, find some clothes and we'll meet you in the science lab at 10.' Lucas was still staring at the girl in front of him. 'Lucas? Lucas!' Lucas turned towards her with a start.

'What? Oh right, 10 o'clock.' He stayed sitting down. Josie was staring at him weirdly.

'Lucas?' The girl said to him.

'mm hmm' he said turning towards her sharply.

'I think you might need to go now.' She said softly to him.

'okay.' Lucas stood up and walked away form the bed, walking backwards and nearly bumping into Josie but definitely bumping into the door. The girl giggled at him as he left, repeatedly saying ow because he had hurt his back on the door.

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The science club and Professor Z were sitting in the science lab talking to each other about the girl. They all stopped when Josie walked in and left the door open.

'Ladies and Gentlemen, students and teacher. I give you a clean stranger!' The girl who had every single one of them confused walked in dressed in flared jeans, a red jacket half zipped and a black t-shirt underneath. Her face and hair were clean, turns out that she had relatively light brown hair, and an olive/pale complection. 'Well? What do you think?' the others voiced their opinions except for Lucas, who fell off his stool onto the floor. He had fainted.