When she got back to her dorm that afternoon and opened the door, there were two girls instead of one. Élénore was there, but also was another girl.
Joanne felt herself annoyed at this. The girl had full lips, cheek bones, a prominent jaw and long, wavy brown hair.
"Ignore 'er." Élénore said to the girl who was now staring at Joanne with hazel eyes. Joanne felt as though she was in the spot light and decided she had enough of it, so she climbed up onto her bed.
The girl though, was determined not to ignore her.
"I'm Maureen." She said with a wide smile (and an American accent).
"Joanne." Joanne muttered before grabbing her laptop.
There was a ledge in the wall that she could put it on. It also had a plug in it. Very useful.
Joanne loaded up at laptop as Élénore finally put on her dress and pulled her hair up.
"Ve are going out. Do not wait up." The French girl said. Joanne shrugged and continued to type away on her laptop.
She didn't want to wait up. Why would she? Besides, she had English to do.
She had to write a paragraph about who she was. That was a hard question though, who was she?
Never got pix of ur room. –Kat
Joanne looked down at her phone, sighed and took a few photos from her perch. Then sent it to her friend before looking at her laptop.
I am Joanne Johnson
Joanne sighed. How did you write about yourself? Either it would be a very bland paragraph or make her seem self centered. There would be no winning.
Sighing, Joanne went to youtube instead and click one of the channels she was subscribed to.
The channel was called The-Girl-Who-Read. She loved booktube so decided to watch the girls review of Stuck by Lightning, a book Joanne had been meaning to read.
Cool room! I wish –Kat
Joanne rolled her eyes. Kat had not been allowed to come to the school no matter how much she had wanted to. How Joanne wished she was able to switch spots with her friend at that moment.
You don't wish. I live with someone who doesn't want me here, I don't want her here either. Actually, I don't want to be here. –Jo
Joanne jumped onto the floor and went into her desk. Grabbed a granola bar she took a bite and starting calculating how much time she had to do this paragraph.
"A week," she spoke aloud to herself. "But if I get it done quickly I will have time for stuff I may get tomorrow."
Joanne sighed. She wished she didn't have to go to this stupid school where she knew no one.
She had forgotten a spoon which meant venturing outside of the room. Joanne wasn't ready for this quest (considering she was in PJ shorts and a tank top) so she put on a black hoodie, put up the hood and put on her green, ankle height.
Quiet and swift, like a ninja! Joanne said to herself in her head. She started padding down the hallway to the sitting area she had seen the day before.
When she entered she saw a small kitchen just off it surrounded by large windows. She walked into the kitchen when she noticed that nobody was there, and was just trying to find the cutlery drawer when someone spoke behind her.
"What are you looking for?" Joanne spun around to be face to face with a latina girl with long brown hair. The girl stared at her with pretty brown eyes.
"Umm.. a spoon." Joanne quietly said. The girl nodded and reached around her to open the drawer.
"I'm Mimi." The girl said with a smile.
"Joanne." Replied Joanne with a small smile. "are you new?" the girl chucked slightly.
"Nope, been here a year. I take it you are though." Joanne blushed and smiled. "Don't worry, you get used to it. What grade are you in?"
"Eleventh."
"Me too!" Joanne smiled. This meant she had someone she would at least know the name of in her grade. If you counted her roommate (actually she didn't know her grade) and the Maureen girl.
"Cool! Well, I'm room 667 if you wanna hang out anytime!" Mimi said with a small wave before walking off.
Joanne smiled slightly before sneaking back to her room and grabbed a jar of peaunut butter from the drawer. Sitting at her desk, she started to eat it and wonder when Élénore was going to be back.
When she felt slightly full but not hungry anymore she put the jar back.
This is so unhealthy…. She thought as she walked back to the kitchen area, washed the spoon and put it away before walking back to her room and climbing onto her bunk with her cell phone.
Got a bf. Txt u deets l8r –Kat
Joanne rolled her eyes. Kat had gotten a different boyfriend at least once a month, if not twice. It wasn't an odd thing for her to have a new one.
She sighed and pulled up tumblr and started going down her dashboard when the door opened and in walked Élénore in her fancy dress.
The French girl completely ignored her and Joanne her. Joanne didn't want to talk to a girl who was acting like she was better than everyone else, so just continued to tumbl.
"May I turn off zee light?" Élénore asked.
"Umm… yeah." Joanne said as she plugged in her phone and went under the covers with her clothing on. Usually, she would never do that but she was too shy to change in front of her roommate.
She laid on her side, facing out. She had a thing and couldn't face the wall when she slept. It was only precautionary. What if someone tried to kill her in her sleep? She couldn't have that, Joanne knew she had too much potential for that.
The next morning after eating a granola bar, Joanne hurried to her first class of the day. Today she had social studies. Not something that was entirely interesting to her but something she needed to graduate.
She wasn't exactly excited but knew she'd live, especially when she saw Mimi who waved her over.
"Thank god, I hate this class." The Latina said with a smile before pulling her backpack off the chair beside her so Joanne could sit.
"Same." Joanne replied as she pulled out the things she'd need for the class.
When the teacher walked to the front of the desk, Mimi turned to Joanne;
"Don't tell my boyfriend this, but that professor is H-O-T. Hot! Don't ya think?" she asked.
"Sure?"
"Don't you think so?" Mimi asked. Joanne rolled her eyes at the typical female thing of thinking all professors are hot.
"I'm gay." She said simply.
"Oh! Don't worry my other friends are too!" Mimi said with a smile, "I'll have to introduce you!" Joanne nodded uncertainly. She had never been good in new situations.
For the rest of class till the teacher started talking Mimi went on about her friends, about how one had protests behind the field house, but had an annoying girl following her around, or about how her boyfriend was trying to write a song.
Joanne was only half interested. At home, Kat would have been going on about her newest boyfriend. And Ray, Joanne's oldest friend, would be talking about how his girlfriends college was going.
Joanne was the only one who didn't date out of her friends, mostly because she had never found someone that she was interested in that was also a lesbian. It was harder than it looked on TV.
Music was after socials. Joanne hadn't wanted to take it, but she needed some type of arts class for graduation, and she didn't like acting, and couldn't draw. So this was her alternative.
Joanne played flute, something that she had never been particularly interested in but it was the smallest of all the instruments so was easier to carry around.
As she sat in her chair putting it together, someone walked over to her. It was a girl with black hair to her chin, and was also Latin like Mimi.
"Hi! I think you're in my English class." The girl said with a smile.
"Yeah, I'm Joanne." She said politely.
"Angel… what instrument do you play?" Angel asked.
"Flute."
"O-M-G! Me too! Let's be best friends." Angel said. And that was how Joanne got one of her first, closest friends.
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