Now, three months later we were on our way to St. Vladimir. The drive was uneventful and none of us talked much since we were excited and thinking about how life would be from now on. We drove for almost five hours until we arrived at the gates. It seems that here was a lot of security considering the fences and the security man, who had to check our IDs. After we passed the gates we became lost. Most of the buildings looked the same, not monotone but modern. I could see a sports field behind some of the dorm buildings, as I would guess. The different building besides the sports field was probably the gym. It was really busy around there, but students also walked around the whole campus or just sat in the park we came by. I also noticed the school uniforms they wore and groaned internally. Eddie had a gleam in his eyes that told me he was enthralled. Finally we arrived at the office building and made our way inside. The secretary looked up "Hello, how may I help you?"
"My children Rose and Eddie are here for their senior year, we received an informing letter that they have gotten scholarships." , mum told her and waited for a response, which took quite a while.
" A scholarship? Are you certain?" her face was one of confusion as if she had had never heard of such a thing before.
"Well, yes. Take a look." she reached into her purse and brought out the letters to hand them over.
After reading them she told us to wait for a moment before leaving into another office.
She came back with an old woman.Her gray hair, pale skin and strict expressions made her definitely older than she actually was. She looked outworn but still not very sympathetic.
"Mrs. Castile, Edison and Rosemarie welcome to our institution. I'm glad to finally meet you. I have an important meeting to attend in a few minutes, but Ms. Sage will take care of your enrollment. So please excuse me." She seemed like she wanted to get rid of us.
Ms. Sage, the secretary, pulled out some forms, which mum had to fill out. After all the paperwork we had gotten our schedules, a map of the even bigger than originally thought school and our keys for the rooms. I really wasn't looking forward to sharing a room with some snobbish girl.
When all the farewells were done mum took off with the promise to skype on the weekends and picking us up again for the break. We watched her leave and it was a weird feeling. It's not like she had had spent a lot of time home, because of her jobs, so we had to care a lot for our own, but still when we needed her she has always been there. But I still had Eddie and as he turned around I knew he felt the same kind of nervousness as I did.
"So… ehm, guess I will see you later around." I had to laugh at his expression
" Stop worrying, I won't get into to trouble on the first day here. See ya."
with an assuring smile at him I turned around to make my way to my dorm.
I followed the route Ms. Sage had marked on my map, while gazing at the people around here. At least I was just glancing on same instead of gawking like them. I mean, sure I had gotten a lot of attention from guys before. With my curves, dark hair and exotic skin tone it wouldn't be arrogant to describe myself as hot. Although they weren't just ogling me, it was more of a studying. Possibly because there weren't a lot of new ones joining for the senior year or they just weren't used to people in normal clothes.
And there it was again, school uniforms, which reminded me of the fact that I didn't even had a single one. Well maybe there was no need, it was just one year so it wasn't worth the -
"Hey beauty, need some help?" some rudely interrupted my brightening thoughts.
He was good looking, platinum blond hair styled in a way that probably told a thousand things about his character and shining blue eyes, with an expectant gleam. The smirk on his face explained exactly what kind of help he had meant.
I smirked back "Sure." and handed my luggage over. I was certainly not looking for any kind of relationship, not even one for fun, but some flirting never hurt, right?
"I'm Jessy by the way." he was already breathing heavy from the luggage, the heating sun wasn't helping matters. "So what's your name, beauty?" I took my luggage from him, while he was standing next to me in front of my dorm building. "Didn't thought you earned yourself that much, did you?" I winked at him, while suppressing a snicker on his surprised and confused face.
Entering the dorm I stood in front of a desk with an old woman sitting behind, surely older than the headmistress, but softer features. She looked up at me and smiled warmly
"Hello dear, you have to be Rosemarie." "Yep, I'm the new one. But do us both a favour and stay with Rose.",
the corners of her mouth twitched though she didn't change her expression.
"Alright then. I'm Alberta Petrov the housemistress, at least for the next few days until Sonya comes back. Anyways you are signed up for room D34, sharing it with Natasha Ozera." I raised my eyebrows waiting for any more information for example a short statement about that Natasha. I could have sworn I had heard the name Ozera before, but I wasn't really in the mood to rack my brain over something, so I continued to stare expectantly at Alberta. She just kept smiling, also raising her eyebrows in question. The knowing glint in her eyes told me she knew what I wanted to know. I groaned loudly and gave up the staring contest. That woman was already testing my limits "Well, Berta tell me. Is she nice, trouble, interesting" I scrunched my face to support the true meaning of interesting "anything?", she had to suppress a laugh.
"You will get to know her." giving another loud groan I glared at her, turned around and stomped up the stairs.
I had to take four stairs until I stood in front of my room. Before I knocked, yes I was actually planning on doing that, I wasn't totally rude, at least not all the time, I let the name Ozera flash through my memories again, coming up without anything useful.
Just as I was raising my hand the door sprang open and revealed a tall, pale still handsome, nevertheless angry boy.
"Fuck o..who are you?"
"A resident of this room. And you are?" he rolled his eyes.
"Out of here." He stormed off with that, leaving me kind of startled in the doorway.
"Won't you come in?" A voice sounded from behind the door, her face appearing right after it.
She looked a lot like the guy, probably sibling. So at least no romance drama, well for now.
"Yeah, sure. Hi I'm Rose."
"Tasha. That was my asshole of a brother, Christian." I came in noticing now that even while her hair seemed to be totally black like her brothers there was a shade of brown. Although the scar across the side of her face was the thing that took in my attention for a few seconds. I remembered my intention to not be rude and looked away, however my mouth never worked in unison with my brain
" How did you get that?" she looked at my shocked
"Are you serious right now? Gosh!"
shaking her head, she grabbed her bag and stormed off, reminding me of her brother again.
"Whatever, I tried." I mumbled to myself, unpacking my things. It was a simple room: desk, bed, wardrobe, two of each. All wooden, but again not cheap or monotonous, still modern.There was also one yellow very comfortable couch and of course the door leading to our own small bathroom.
I ate my meal from a bag mum had prepared, because we weren't sure if we would have missed it here. It was 8pm when I finished eating and unpacking. I didn't want to leave the dorm today again, the people here were weird, though I could not put it into words, they were just weird. Mase would have had understood me. Well, I shouldn't go there right now, so I called Meredith, his sister and a good friend of mine. I told her about all the encounters and we chatted for a while. I went to bed almost directly after the call, thinking about the first face I would have to see every morning from now on: Tasha. Maybe she was just in a bad mood. At least Jessy was nice to look at, not that I wanted more. I snickered remembering his stunned expression, with that in mind I finally slowly drifted off into sleep.
A/NDon't worry. Dimitri and Lissa will show up in the next chapter. And some trouble (finally) of course.