Be Careful What You Wish For

Chapter 6: New Home


After I agreed to stay at the school the meeting was over. Everyone left the professor's office and Storm showed Sparrow and I to a room, which would from now on be ours.

Storm pointed out different parts of the mansion on our way to our room. We passed classrooms and offices, we went up the elevator to the third floor and we walked through the girls dorms. At the end of that hallway was the room in which we would be staying.

Our room was huge. Okay, well not huge but it was a descent sized room for Sparrow and I. It had two twin beds next to each other, a dresser that I think could hold more clothes than we had, and a closet. There was also a small bathroom off of our room and a window across from the door facing the outdoor basketball court. Overall it was a nice room.

My attention was drawn back to Storm when she cleared her throat and said, "I hope you like your room."

Sparrow beat me too the answer with a smile. "I have never stayed in a bedroom before, this one is very pretty."

I just smiled at Storm and thanked her.

"Well, I am glad that you like it." She said. "Dinner is going to be in about an hour, so I thought that you might want to get cleaned up a bit first." She smiled sweetly as she left.

As soon as Storm closed the door and left Sparrow climbed up onto the nearest bed and started jumping.

"Sparrow," I reprimanded. "Don't jump on the bed, its bad manners."

"Why not? I've never jumped on a bed before and it is our room." She said while laughing.

"Come on Sparrow," I said with my hands on my hips, "get down."

As she slowly got down from the bed I told her that she could get in the shower first.

"What! I don't need a shower, I smell fine." She whined sitting on the edge of the bed closest to the window.

"Sparrow, we are going to be meeting a lot of new people at dinner and we need to make a good first impression. We need to be clean." I told her pulling off my gloves and unbuckling the clip on my cloak. "If you don't want to use the shower first then I will, but you will get in the shower before we go down to dinner."

"Fine, but then can I eat what ever I want to for dinner?" She questioned me with her arms folded.

"I will think about." I told her while searching through my bag for the cleanest pair of clothes.

After I found the cleanest set of clothes in my bag, which consisted of a pair blue jeans and a black halter top that I had only worn a few times since it was washed last, I walked into the bathroom. The bathroom was beautiful. It had a sink, a shower/bathtub, and a toilet. The toilet was sectioned off from the rest of the bathroom by another door and the shower had a sliding glass door and a curtain, so that someone could be using the sink while someone else was in the shower.

I undressed, got in the shower and turned the hot water on. It had been so long since I had taken a hot shower and it felt nice.

Once I was done taking a shower I dried off and got dressed.

I left the bathroom and said to Sparrow, "Hey, it's your turn in the shower!"

"I don't want to; I am clean enough." She pouted.

"Sparrow, you need to get cleaned up. If you don't want to take a shower than you can take a bath." I told her in a stern voice, while pulling a pair of socks on.

"Fine." She muttered grabbing the clean clothes I held out to her and stomping off to the bathroom.

For the next ten minutes, while Sparrow was taking a bath, I brushed and braided my hair and then wound it back up into a bun. I then started to unpack out bags. First I laid out all of our clothes on the bed so that they could be washed and then I pulled out all of the food that we had picked up that morning, the sewing kit and all of the other things that we had acquired over the years. After everything was laid out on the bed I put it all into the dresser drawers in a somewhat organized manner.

I then decided to check on Sparrow, because she had been in the bathroom for a really long time. I knocked on the bathroom door before I opened it slowly. I peered inside and there was Sparrow just sitting there in the bathtub.

"Sparrow! What are you doing?" I questioned her.

"Well," she smiled guiltily. "I took a bath quickly and then I figured that you wouldn't believe that I was clean if I came out too soon, so I decided to sit here for a while."

"Sparrow, I am smarter than you think, but if you are done than get out and dry off." I told her before I closed the door again. She sure was a silly kid.

I pulled my long white gloves on and put my cloak and sunglasses back on while I waited for Sparrow to come out.

Finally, she came out of the bathroom wearing a dark purple skirt that I had patched up a few times and a black shirt that matched mine, only smaller. Her clothes weren't any cleaner than mine. I brushed her hair and then pulled it up into two cute pigtails on top of the head.

Then Sparrow pulled on her oversized sweatshirt. Even if everyone here was a mutant, our obvious mutations still tended to scare people.

"Her Skye, do you think that everyone will like us?" She asked me quietly while pulling on her shoes and socks.

"Oh Sparrow, I sure hope so." I told her as I pulled her into a tight hug.

I released her, though, when there was a knock on our door.

"One second" I called. Sparrow and I hurried to finish getting ready. I pulled up my hood as she finished tying her shoes.

I then swung open the door to find Ms. Grey standing there. "Hi!" I said sweetly.

"Hello," she smiled. "Everyone is heading down to dinner, so I figured that I could show you the way down."

"Thank you." I replied as Sparrow and I followed her down the hallway and into the elevator.


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