Whoo! New chapter! I'm really starting to get into this story. After a horrible 3 hour drive with my parents (we got two flats...Not one TWO! AHHHH!) I finally think I got the second chapter worked out in my freaky little head. Well let's see!
Disclaimer: Disney owns all the cool crap that I didn't make up. I own all the cool crap that I did make up.
(God I really need to work on these disclaimer thingys!)
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Dilly Durns yawned very loudly as she buttered her toast.
"Another sleepless night then?" Melusina Greene questioned her friend.
"You have no idea." It was the third night in a row that her roommate had kept her up. "If she keeps me up one more time with her stupid crying I swear" Dilly made a twisting motion with her napkin and ripped it in two.
"Aww, common, give her a break. She must be feeling terribly awful over that boy." It was just like Melusina to defend all sides. It was part of what Dilly admired in her friend.
Dilly and Melusina's dorm rooms were right across the hall from each other. The two had become friends a couple of years ago when Dilly had gone mad from her bathroom-hogging roommate and asked if she could use Mel's.
"Awful," Dilly said hotly, "I'm the one who feels awful. Plus Etta deserves it. You should have seen all the guys she'd kicked to the curb. She gets bored of one pretty face and then dumps it. If you ask me," Dilly cut into a purp sourly, "she's just sore because this time she got dumped."
"Yeah, I suppose your right" Melusina, after all, had met Etta Bellini. The 4th year girl was popular, beautiful, and in Dilly's own words 'a bitch and a half'. Being dumped must have been a huge blow to an ego like that.
"Least I only got one more year with her. Then I get some new kid."
"Hope you get some new exchange student. First years are awful," said Melusina sighed. "Lucy always brings friends in when I'm trying to do homework. It makes it incredibly hard to concentrate."
Dilly had to smile at her friend. Good grades were everything to Melusina. She was always trying to make the top scores on everything. ("Its what we Merish do!" she had explained). And Melusina was purebred Merish.
This explained her high-test average as well as her good looks. Merish people were known for their stunning, cut-from-glass faces and long greenish-blond hair. Both of which Melusina owned, yet did not flaunt as some girls did. Usually she wore her hair tightly pulled back and preferred eye glasses rather then lenses.
Just then Jim Hawkins and JJ Double entered the hall. Dilly waved to them and they made their way over to her table.
"Morning ladies," JJ cooed as he slid into the seat across from Melusina. "Beautiful day," he said brightly.
"Says who?" Dilly shot back.
"Well somebody's a little testy this morning," said Jim as he sat down next to JJ. "Etta still keeping you up?"
"Mmmhmm."
"Meh, but hey, here's some good news. Tonight's the last tutoring session."
Dilly blinked. He was right; tonight was the last one. It had been a whole month since that afternoon when they were both called to Bagdonnas's office. She was really glad her and Jim had become friends outside of the sessions. Melusina was great, but it was nice to have someone around that she could trade sarcastic comments with.
Then there was JJ. He was really fun to be around. Dilly was glad Jim had introduced them. Plus she was sure there was sparks going on between JJ and Melusina.
She turned to her friend to see her giggling at one of JJ's jokes. Melusina always lightened up more when JJ was around.
"So when's your range test," she asked turning back to Jim. The shooting section of weapons class was coming to an end. Creed (who's foot had recovered, but held an annoying large grudge according to Jim) had informed his classes that they would be taking a 2-hour long shooting and then written test to gauge if they passed that part of the course. Those who don't pass, he had threatened, would be forced into remedial shooting instead of moving onto swords.
"Tomorrow," replied Jim through a mouth of eggs. "I really need help with the long distance if I'm gonna pass."
"DURNS?" Called a small feline like boy. He held several letters and a large package in his hands and was looking around the dining hall. "DELILAH DURNS?"
"Over here," Dilly said waving to the first year. It was the their job to distribute the mail each morning. Dilly had hated that part of her first year. She had been assigned Wednesdays. So every third day of the week she had had to run around the hall, passing out letters, before she could sit down and eat.
The boy scrambled over, nearly dropping the package, and tossed a letter over to Dilly. "LAURENT? STEFAN LAURENT?"
"Hum." Dilly mumbled scanning the letter.
"What," asked JJ curiously.
"Nothing, just my uncle's new plot to kill someone." Dilly had been sent a letter by her Uncle Otto, an acclaimed murder mystery author. Dilly had lived with him most of her life but had never seen him more desperate before. His last book, "Death in her Eyes", had been a critical success. Meaning the critics simply adored it, but not enough normal people bought it to pay the bills. Ever since, Uncle Ot had been sending her daily letters filled with ridiculous plot lines, asking her opinion. "I think he may be losing it."
"Let me see," said Jim taking the letter from Dilly. "Death by a Purp," he snorted. "He's definitely lost it."
Jim handed the letter back to Dilly as the first bell rung, signaling that they had ten minutes to get to their first period class.
"I'll see you guys later," she said getting up. "Sims will have my head if I'm late again." Sims was her Arithmetic Professor. He had threatened multiple detentions if she was tardy once more.
As Dilly made her ways down the hall she thought about the letter. Uncle Otto would be awaiting an answer. But how do you tell someone their ideas were getting worse?
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That's all for now. I know its like 10 billion words shorter than my last chapter but hey, I don't really feel like writing more tonight. I just wanted to show how Dilly, Jim, JJ, and Melusina have all become friends. Now that I have set the stage, so to speak, I can begin adding in the actual plot. Actually I put I little important detail in the first chapter but many of you may not be able to pick it out till later. Don't worry! Soon the title will make sense!
Here's a little fun fact for you though. I had a really hard time trying to think up a good name for Dilly's friend. So I tried concentrating on how she might look and came up with merish (WHAHA! Merish! As in mermaids!) That's when I named her Melusina after a mermaid from French folklore. Her last name Greene is from the obituaries.
