~WHAACCCKK~ "Palom, learn some respect!" Porom told her twin as he sat rubbing his head looking up at her in a bit of confusion. "You cannot keep addressing her as, 'Hey Lady', especially if you are going to insult her!"
"But, I wasn't insulting her!! I was just saying that I like Terra's shade of green hair better!" Palom retorted.
Rydia was doing her best to hide her annoyance at the young boy's remark. She, however, was quite impressed by Porom's maturity, which had clearly been on vacation when the twins had first arrived. Their entire lunch together had gone on this way; Palom making some comment that he found harmless, but which offended Rydia, and Porom hitting him over the head and correcting his immaturity.
"Please forgive him, Rydia. He's still just a little boy." Porom said, with a look of superiority over her twin brother. Rydia nodded as she finished a bite of her sandwich as the door to the mess hall burst open and Cid ran in, apparently having just cast an 'Ignore Old Age' spell upon himself prior to his entrance.
"Alright kiddos, as soon as you finish your lunch head to the meeting site so I can get you oriented for this summers activities! Counselors, this will give you a chance to get settled into your rooms a bit more and get acquainted with your roommates." And with that said, Cid galloped back out of the mess hall.
"Well, see ya later, lady!" Palom exclaimed, jumping up and running out the door, Porom following close behind yelling at her twin for his constant rudeness.
At least I can enjoy the rest of my lunch now with a bit of quiet. Rydia thought to herself, though she instantly had to hide a wave of annoyance that swept her body when she looked up from her lunch to notice Terra walking towards her from the other side of the room.
"Hey roomie! Wanna go get our room in order with me? As soon as you are finished with your lunch, of course." Terra said as she sat down across from Rydia. "I am really looking forward to rooming with you this summer. It'll be so much better than my previous, creepy roommate."
Rydia looked up at Terra with a smile. I guess maybe Terra isn't all too bad... I probably just need some sleep. But she is still a bitch if she thinks she is pulling off that hair color better than me! I can't believe Palom likes her hair better than mine.
"What was creepy about your last roommate?" Rydia asked, deciding it may actually be nice to have some decent conversation. Anything would be better than listening to the twin's argue with each other at this point. As she finished the last bite of her sandwich, she began to stack her's and the twin's lunch trays. "And what was her name?"
"Oh, I don't remember her name, really.. I ended up staying with a friend of mine after the first week, and avoided creepy girl as much as I could." Terra said as the two girls laughed together. "But, for the first week that I did use my bed, I'd always wake up at random times at night with her standing over me.. just staring at me. Not to mention her general 'Let's be super annoying' behaviors. " Terra said, laughing to herself. "Anyway, you ready to head to the room?"
Rydia nodded as she picked up the lunch trays to put them away on her way out, quite satisfied by the sandwich the camp chef, Quina, had put together for her. Mmmmm sammich. Quina may be a bit odd, in every way imaginable, but sure can make a delicious sammich. Rydia thought as the two girls walked out the door while Terra was telling more ridiculous stories about her previous roommate, Rydia, mostly ignoring her, still quite captivated by her sandwich.
It didn't take long for the two girls to notice something was amiss when they had gotten to their cabin. The first sign being that the door was slightly open; not how either one of them had left it. Terra walked in first and found a small, wooden box with a latch keeping the cover closed sitting on her bed with a note on it that read, "A small 'care package' for your kindness from last summer." Rydia had a larger box on her bed with a similar note reading, "A 'care package' welcoming you to your first summer here." Both notes were left unsigned.
"Well, this is a rather nice surprise. I wasn't expecting anyone to be nice enough to leave a me a care package for the summer. Just wish they would have closed the door." Rydia said, laughing a bit, as she began to open her box.
"No! Don't..." Terra exclaimed, but it was too late. The box was open, and it only took a second for the contents of the box to be jumping around the room aimlessly, making a rather unique ~Squish~ noise with each landing.
"Whaaaa.. what are these things!!!" Rydia screamed, jumping back and ran towards Terra, glomping her, causing both girls to fall back onto Terra's bed, Rydia still latched onto Terra.
"Oglops! Have you seriously never heard of Oglops!?!" Terra said in a disbelief. "I think I know exactly who did this. 'Care package' indeed, Dagger."
After much debate, Terra finally was able to convince Rydia that oglops were in fact, harmless, and an hour later the two girls managed to gather the ten oglops back into the box from which they had emerged. Moving the box of oglops off her bed Rydia collapsed onto her bed with a heavy sigh. Terra moved her still unopened box next to Rydia's and sat down on the edge of Rydia's bed next to her.
"Well that was exciting, wasn't it?" Terra said, looking down at Rydia with a smile, who was still breathing heavily from the task of capturing the oglops.
"Yes, lets never do that again." Rydia said with a laugh. "You think you know who left these for us?"
"Most likely it was Dagger, her and I kinda have a history. And this seems like one of her typical pranks that she would pull on someone new to camp. Especially since you are my roommate this summer." Terra said, starting to look a bit nervous.
"History?" Rydia started to say, looking a bit puzzled.
"Yeah, practical jokes and such. You know, the usual crazy camp antics." Terra said, now deciding to avoid the topic of what she really meant by 'history'. "So, you got a significant other back home?" Changing the topic away from her.
Rydia turned over on the bed, now laying on her side looking at Terra, looking a bit surprised at the sudden change in topic. "Well, not really. I was dating this guy, Edge, up until a few months ago... things kinda turned bad... after a certain incident occurred."
"What kind of incident? He didn't cheat on you did he?" Terra said, starting to have a sinking feeling inside at learning Rydia had a boyfriend recently. Nothing like chasing oglops for an hour to make me realize I actually do have a crush on this girl, and I probably don't even have a chance with her now. Figures the most attractive girl in camp this summer WOULD be into guys.
"Oh no.. nothing like that." Rydia said, looking away from Terra, starting to blush. Why am I opening myself up to this girl like this. She is such a bitch. Her and her green hair. "It's just that.. well.. the first time he tried to kiss me.. I kinda.. head-butted him, then ran away. It was just.. weird.. I don't know."
Though she was now really curious, Terra decided to leave it at that, nodding understandably to her new crush. "Well, we better get going.. it's about time for us to go perform some magic for the kids.. showing off and such." she said, smiling down at Rydia as she stood up, offering her hand to help her up.
The kids were all seated around a rather large, open area, seated on benches that had obviously been quite weathered. Some even had scorch marks on them, which Rydia could only guess as to how they got there. Cid and several other counselors were already standing in the middle talking amongst themselves.
"There's Dagger." Terra said, "the brunette wearing tan and white." Terra was now scrunching her face up in disapproval at the girl, but instantly changed it to a smile when Dagger looked over and saw the two walking up. "Oh, and.. more about that history with her that I have, she is the one I stayed with last summer. So you know, if it comes up."
Dagger ran up to the two girls and glomped Terra, glaring at Rydia with a thin smile while doing so.
"So, you two becoming best of friends? Or are you going to have to be sleeping with me again all summer, Terra?" Dagger said.
Sleeping with? Is there more to this history of theirs than Terra was letting on?
"Well, I hope she doesn't feel like she has to sleep elsewhere this summer, Dagger. I kinda get the feeling we'll become quite close." Rydia said.
"I guess she's told you all about me then?" Dagger said, grinning at Terra now, who was starting to look rather nervous at this first meeting with her ex and her current crush. Terra could already tell that Dagger knew she was into Rydia, and was probably going to try to ruin this for her, if it wasn't already ruined to begin with.
Rydia was already more annoyed with Dagger and her arrogant nature than she ever was with Terra. "Well, she really only told me she had to stay with you last summer. I picked up on the fact that you are a bitch just by looking at you." Rydia said, not wanting to make enemies, but feeling rather confident Dagger deserved it.
Before Dagger could say anything else, Cid came over to the three and put his arms around Rydia and Dagger's shoulders.
"Ahh, Rydia, looks like you are starting to make plenty of friends here. Good! Good!" Cid said, and his eyes instantly lit up as he looked around, "Looks like everyone is here! Rydia, is there a creature or something you could call, something harmless, of course, to show us all? It's been so long since we've had a Caller in staff here. I'm sure everyone would love it!"
Rydia looked at Dagger, then Terra and gave her a smile. "Of course! I actually learned something new to call earlier today, so I'd like to give that a shot anyway."
Terra was now becoming more concerned about the situation that was unfolding. Dagger knew all of her secrets. With a puzzled look on her face she looked at Rydia and mouthed "What?" Rydia just winked back at her. This can not end well for me. Terra thought to herself with a heavy sigh.