Beca lolled her head back and let out a breath. She had been making mixes for the past few hours non-stop except for the interruption from the two red heads at the door. She was really going to be nice to them, granted they were maybe a little weird leading with the whole, 'these cookies might be radioactive' thing, but they seemed nice and she didn't want to be a bitch to everyone today. But Carmilla, her roommates name apparently, didn't even give them a chance and was extra snarky so Beca hardly said anything and probably came off as a terrible person along with her roommate.
Whatever, she's not here to make friends anyway.
She wasn't even sure how the two gingers knew the dark haired girls name at first. Her roommate wouldn't tell anyone her name but these two seemed to know it. After looking around, she realized they had nametags on their door and she didn't even notice.
Their names were on a pie and a… cream puff?
This school was definitely weird.
She wouldn't call herself oblivious, but she wasn't the person that paid attention to every detail unless it had to do with music.
Maybe that's why her previous girlfriend dumped her. She did say something about that when she was yelling at her that one time.
Maddie wasn't the best girlfriend anyways, Beca was sure she was sleeping with rest of her cheer squad.
Maybe that's why Beca can't seem to like overly happy people anymore.
She twirled around in her chair to look at Carmilla. The darker haired girl was still absorbed in her book about cats. Or maybe Dickens just liked cats, or was that Hemmingway? Beca wasn't sure. She should probably pay attention to her dad ramble about literature more often. Carmilla felt Beca staring at her and looked up with a scowl that rivaled Beca's.
"What is it?" Carmilla said with annoyance in her voice.
Beca opened her mouth and sat there a second before pushing through her awkwardness. "I, just. We've been in here all day and I'm starting to get hungry and while you may not care about anything, I quite like food. So I was going to get some and if you decided that you like food too you can come with." The brunette let out a breath and a small smile at her rambling. It's not that she was intimidated by her roommate, her brain just decided to make a complete fool of her at the most opportune times.
Carmilla raised her perfectly sculpted eyebrow at the shorter brunette and Beca's brain seemed to go into overdrive.
"Look I'm not asking you out or going to push you off a cliff or anything." The shorter brunette stumbled out.
Carmilla just raised her other eyebrow at her.
Beca sighed, "I just want to know if you want to grab some food."
Carmilla sighed like she really didn't want to go, but she had been starving for the past hour and going with someone to dinner wouldn't be the worst thing she's ever done.
Plus she hasn't minded the presence of this small human yet.
She just hopes she doesn't regret her decision.
"Okay." She says simply and hops off of her bed.
Beca stared at her in surprise. "Okay?" She repeated back to Carmilla.
"That's what I said." She said monotonously and walked towards the door. "You coming?"
Beca quickly scrambled to her feet and slipped on her converse and headed towards the door where Carmilla was standing trying her hardest not to smirk at the awkwardness of her roommate.
Aubrey was politely listening to the small brunette ramble on about her small town in Canada as the trio walked towards the student building. Chloe managed to diffuse the tizzy the blonde managed to get herself in over the Bella's and convinced her to come eat a free meal. Chloe did this often with the blonde, being a community programmer the school paid for her meal plan and gave her a much larger meal plan than she could ever dream about eating so she shared with the blonde quite often.
Normally Aubrey was quite pleasant to most people, but this girl flat out refused to try out for the Bella's within five minutes of meeting her. Even when Chloe used her best pout (it gets her every time) the girl wouldn't budge, using her terrible coordination as an excuse. So she was nice, but the blonde was sure they probably wouldn't be friends. The Bella's blood ran deep within the blonde.
However, when the trio got into the student building, Aubrey started to slowly change her opinion about the small enthusiastic freshman. They didn't get ten feet through the doors and Laura tripped on the floor mat and fell into some guy in a pastel polo with a popped collar.
"Woah little hottie!" The guy said as he caught the small brunette before she face planted into the ground.
Laura blew hair out of her face looking quite flustered. This isn't what she imagined cool looked like and she definitely wanted to be cool.
"Oh my goodness I'm so sorry! I'm so clumsy." Laura's cheeks were tinted red in embarrassment and Chloe had a concerned motherly look on her face.
"No worries little hottie! Zeta's always help the hotties." The tall guy said while grinning. He seemed nice, but the popped polo definitely made him kind of look like a douche. When he said he was a Zeta, Aubrey automatically stiffened; the frat boys were always no good, much like those Trebles.
Laura just stared at the guy with her mouth open. She never considered herself a hottie, let alone called one. "Excuse me?" She said confused.
The tall guy looked around with a grin on his face, confused at what this girl was confused about so he decided to introduce himself. "I'm Kirsch, certified Zeta and protector of the hotties." He stuck out his hand for Laura to shake. She gently grabbed it, still confused while Chloe stifled her laughter behind her hand and Aubrey had a frown all over her face.
"Uhh I'm Laura. Sorry again for running into you. I'm just… clumsy."
Kirsch was still smiling. "It's no problem little hottie! We'll I'll see ya later! Stay safe!" With that the tall smiling puppy like man strode out of the student center.
The three girls looked at each other, Laura with confusion and Chloe with plain amusement at her clumsy roommate. Aubrey still looked like she didn't trust the guy. Nonetheless, the trio continued to the food court. Chloe explained to Laura all the different options and made sure she stayed away from a few of the places.
The two older girls ended up choosing the salad place with a really tasty looking chicken salad of the day while Laura opted for a black bean burger. When she wasn't eating cookies a mile a minute, she tried to push her horizons with her food options. She saw that Chloe and Aubrey had sat down at a table and quickly walked over to them with her burger and cups of ketchup for her fries.
What she wasn't paying attention to, was the girl who was walking directly into her path.
Laura collided with the dark haired girl, almost dropping her burger but catching it last minute with the consequence of her ketchup flying out of her hand and on to her other arm and the pants of the other girl. She heard the other girl curse and Laura gasped knowing very well what happened before seeing it.
The shorter brunette looked up at the other girl, tears starting to fill her eyes. It was her very first day and she couldn't seem to catch a break. This was the third person she had run into and now she spilled ketchup on her. Why couldn't she have been born with a little more coordination?
One thing is for sure, college is not going as planned so far.
"I'm so sorry! Oh my goodness your pants! Here." She bent over with the napkins in her hand and started wiping at the darker haired girls thigh. Ketchup was still dripping off her arm, but she paid no mind.
Chloe and Aubrey saw the whole thing happen and stared there slack jawed at the two girls. The girl Laura ran into had her eyebrows furrowed and a frown on her face as she slowly turned her head to look at Laura. It looked like this girl was a lot less friendly than the guy Laura ran into a few minutes ago.
Carmilla was about to give this girl a good verbal lashing, but quickly shut her mouth when she saw the girls beautiful brown eyes slightly well up with tears.
"Shit." She muttered under her breath. She may have a high level of distain for people, but she absolutely hated crying. Before she knew it, she felt the girl wiping off her pants.
She saw Beca out of the corner of her eye staring at her with wide eyes. Surely expecting her to rip this girls head off. But she just… couldn't.
She really fucking hated crying.
"Hey now, no crying. We're fine." She said in her sultry smooth voice and gently grabbed the other girls arm and pulled her up. She started to wipe some of the ketchup off the shorter girls arm with her own napkins.
Laura just sat there staring at the strange girl as she tried to control her emotions. She knew it was silly that she got so worked up over this little thing, but everything that happened today had just burst out of her at once.
"See? All good." Laura shook herself out of her trance at the voice of the other girl and looked down to see all the ketchup gone.
"Though now you'll probably need some more ketchup, those fries look like they need it." The darker haired girl made a face and Laura couldn't help but laugh. Carmilla may not seem to like a lot of people, but she was still suave as hell.
"Sorry, sorry. My, I'm just a mess today." She wiped her eyes as both girls chuckle. Hoping that none of her makeup had run down her face, Laura chanced looking at the other girl. She was beautiful with strong definite features. Laura let her eyes roam around her face before looking into her dark whisky colored eyes.
The other girl was staring at her with an amused smirk on her face. She definitely didn't miss the way Laura was looking at her, though it would be a lie if she said she hadn't done the same thing. The smaller brunette had the decency to blush, totally unaware of the other girl checking her out not seconds before.
Carmilla cleared her throat before she did anything that would deem her soft. "Well, cutie. I'm going to go eat dinner. Try to keep your footing, yeah?"
"Uh, yeah. Sorry again." Laura said sheepishly. The other girl just smirked and walked away without a word.
"Alright, bye!" Laura yelled after the girl then quickly slamming her eyes shut, because how stupid did that just sound?
Laura made her way towards the two older girls who had their eyebrows raised. Chloe had a concerned motherly look on her face again, although she looked like she was going to burst out in to laughter any second and Aubrey, well, she definitely had a softer expression on her face than she did earlier in the day. So that was something.
The blonde couldn't blame the girl anymore for not wanting to join the Bella's, Laura was definitely not coordinated enough.
"Oh my goodness, are you okay?" Chloe said as soon as she sat down.
"I'm fine. Thoroughly embarrassed, but fine." The smaller girl said with red tinged cheeks. She was sure half the cafeteria saw her display of extreme clumsiness.
Everyone gets their fifteen seconds of fame, right?
"Laura, what classes are you taking this fall?" Aubrey asked suddenly. The brunette looked at the blonde knowing that she was changing the subject on her behalf, which made her extremely grateful. She rattled off her schedule and the three talked animatedly while they ate their food.
"Dude, did I just see you actually be nice to someone?" Beca said as soon as Carmilla sat down again. Carmilla scowled at the shorter brunette and took a bite of her pizza.
"Yeah! You were way nicer to that girl that ran into you. You gave the girl serving pizza the same look you're giving me right now and I am positive she was flirting with you." She paused as Carmilla scrunched up her eyebrows. "Unless you're not into that sort of thing, which is cool."
"Oh no, Bilbo Baggins. I'm into that sort of thing, just not her. Way too pushy." Carmilla said almost apathetically.
Beca nodded her head, she agreed that pizza girl was way too pushy and desperate. "Yeah I get it. At least we have something in common." She gave a small smile as Carmilla looked up, her eyebrow raised again.
Beca's smile quickly turned into a frown. "I'm not short though."
"I beg to differ, they probably have to check your height on all the amusement rides."
Beca rolled her eyes and took another bite of her pizza. "They do not."
"Someone must be bitter that they can't ride the big kid rides at Disney Land." Carmilla muttered with a smirk as she sprinkled more pepper flakes onto her pizza.
The two bickered on as they ate, eventually transitioning into music, which was more of a common ground for them than anything. Both agreeing that Taylor Swift, although catchy, was not someone they really wanted to listen to.
Maybe being roommates won't be so bad.
"Hey that's the girl I ran into earlier today!" Laura said in between bites of her burger.
Chloe and Aubrey turned to look behind them, not sure of who they were even looking for.
'"The girl sitting with the girl I just ran into…" She mumbled when she realized they didn't know whom she was talking about. "She wasn't as nice as her friend." She mused.
"But I mean she was carrying a lot of stuff."
Chloe cocked her head adorably at the freshman and turned around to look with Aubrey. The two spotted the girls and Aubrey turned to look at Laura. "Do you run into people often?" The small brunette blushed and nodded her head side to side.
"I just… have off days. Today was apparently an off day." She smiled sheepishly and Aubrey hummed.
"She's hot." Chloe said still turned around, only paying half attention to the conversation of the other girls.
Aubrey whipped her head around again and looked at the two girls dressed in all black talking to one another. The blonde scrunched up her face, but before she could say anything Laura piped up again.
"Oh man, do you think they could be the girls Laf and Perry were talking about earlier? I saw the other one outside our dorm today." Laura perked up a bit and squinted at the pair, putting her investigative eyes on.
"They're pretty." Laura said as an afterthought.
"Oh they might be! They're both cute." Chloe still hadn't turned around to eat her food or look at the other girls. Clearly the red head had a one-track mind at the moment.
Aubrey scoffed this time and turned around. "Seriously, Chloe? Alt-girl over there is not hot, she is wearing way too much eyeliner and those ear monstrosities are appalling. How could you even find those attractive? And does she own anything other than black? That other girl is so pale she looks like a vampire. It wouldn't kill them to have some color in their lives."
Chloe turned and looked at her best friend for a moment then went and ate more of her salad. Laura was just looking between the two, munching on her fries.
"They're both pale, does that mean they're both vampires, Aubrey?" The red head wasn't sure why her best friend was judging these girls so quick. But of course, Aubrey mostly went for the preppy non-broody girls.
"Oh!" The small brunette exclaimed, effectively startling the two older girls. "What if they're sisters? That would make sense as to why they're both pale and maybe why they wear black?"
"Oh my gosh, you might be right!" Chloe said excitedly, pointing her fork at the younger girl and they launched into ideas on the back-stories of the two mysterious brunettes. Aubrey just looked at the pair while shaking her head. Chloe finally found someone who was just as ridiculous as she was.
Beca and Carmilla were engrossed in their music discussion and completely oblivious to the other girls staring at them from across the room.
"You know, you might be okay." Beca said slowly with her eyebrows furrowed.
Carmilla scrutinized her for a moment. "Yeah, I might not totally hate you either."