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CHAPTER 2

"Oi—Princess! Wake up!" the obnoxious voice brought me out of my sleepy state. I gave the driver a glare before rubbing my eyes and realizing that the taxi had stopped moving. Out the window stood the large brick building that looked like it was made up of three sects. Large glass windows were reflecting the sun which was now close to setting.

"It'll be extra if I have to sit here and wait for you to get out…" he mumbled. With that I paid him, no tip mind you, and got my suitcases out the back clumsily and started to head towards the central glass doors.

After getting myself inside I found myself looking at a large board covered in flyers that were exactly opposite the entrance. Amongst the colorful flyers there was one large white paper with an arrow pointing to the left, "Central Office."

I figured that would the most likely place for getting situated and finding the admissions director.

A little lady in a skirt suit looked up from the reception desk. "Uhm, hello" she said so quietly I could barely hear her. I don't know how she got a job as a receptionist, being so quiet. But before I could ask her where I was supposed to go another woman stepped out of one of the doors in the back of the office.

"Hello! You must be the new student." She said looking me over.

"Yeah, Naomi Campbell." I said trying to smile, not to be intimidated by the rather large and tall woman that was now hovering over me.

"You are a bit late." She continued bluntly.

"The uh taxi was—" I was quickly trying to come up with a reasonable excuse, but that proved unnecessary as she cut me off.

"Yes, yes, well you are too late to sit in on the last course of the day so I'm going to just send you right on to the principal first thing." She then brought me to the back telling me to leave my luggage by the reception desk. She knocked on the door once and a stern voice told us it was okay for me to enter.

I took a seat on the leather chair facing the desk the old stern lady was sitting at. She seemed to be intently writing in some notes but then she nodded to herself and looked up. Of course she looked me up and down, like everyone else I ran into today, and then went back to her writing. I was beginning to feel awkward and uncomfortable as to why I had to sit here if she wasn't going to say anything. But she surprised me and spoke up.

"Are you aware we have uniforms in this facility?" she said, still writing, not looking at me.

"Yeah, er yes. I was told I was going to get them when I arrived…" my nerves were trying to overpower me, after all I didn't want to screw up and be sent back home for another three hour ride with an obnoxious cab driver…

"Right, who told you that?" she said in all seriousness.

I was caught off guard with that question. It wasn't exactly what I expected to be asked in this sort of interview… she said, he said sort of issues are a bit childish, in my opinion. But she was waiting for an answer so I tried to come up with one.

"I'm not sure, I just was told over the phone when I called up this morning Actually, it may have been the secretary…" I slightly had issues hearing the person over the phone so I assumed it was probably the secretary, after all she was hard to hear even in person.

"I see. Well Naomi, we have a strict set of rules that are all MANDATORY. "She handed me the paper she had been writing on, looking up at me and continuing.

"Ms. Slate, the admissions director, will show you to the dorms. I hope you'll only have to enter this office again regarding good matters. That will be all." She smiled in a way that showed she wasn't exactly a nice person, and then resumed working on some more papers cluttering her desk. I made a mental note to avoid her when possible.

As I exited her office I began to read over the paper she handed to me, two of the rules on it had been underlined darkly in pen.

Uniforms must be worn at all times outside of dormitories. No excuses.

Students must be on time. No excuses.

Oh great Naomi, you've made a wonderful first impression I thought to myself.

"Naomi, here are your uniforms, please follow me to your dorms."

Jeez. They get right to the point in this place. I wasn't exactly one for small talk but this was just extremely blunt. I took the uniforms and stuffed them into my bag then attempted to pull my luggage and follow Ms. Slate who was now quickly striding through the office. We went down a corridor of classrooms until we were met by two doors leading to a staircase. At the top of the staircase, on top of another set of doors, was a large sign. The Left Wing Stonem Dormitories. She quickly opened up the doors and pushed me through the narrow hallway. In the distance I could see a circular lounging area with some couches, which I assumed I'd have to wait until later to see because Ms. Slate was now stopped in front of a particular door.

Ms. C. Campbell.

Ms. P. Moon.

Read the paper sign taped to the door.

"This is your room, here is your schedule, see me if there are any problems. We expect to see you on time at your classes next morning. Your roommate should be able to help you find the right classrooms. Goodnight." With that she abruptly turned and headed back through the set of doors and down the steps.

Hesitantly, I knocked on the door, I assumed my barging in wouldn't exactly make a great impression on my roommate. But before I even knocked a second time the door was wide open revealing a blonde girl with a huge smile, in uniform, although wearing bright striped socks that ran up to the top of the short pleated skirt.

"WHIZZER! I'm Pandora but you can call me Panda! We 're going to be awesome roommates you and I!" I rose my eyebrows. She was practically shouting in my face. I hoped she wasn't always this overly happy and loud. She snapped me back out of my thoughts.

"You must be N. Campbell! Nora? Nancy? Natalie? I have a cousin named Nick, but he's a boy, your not a boy though are you…" She said more as a statement than a question and laughed.

"Uhm. It's actually Naomi." I was surprised that the couple of girls who were in the corridor weren't staring or distracted by the big commotion the girl in front of me was making. But then I realized shit. She's probably always like this, and they're probably just used to it.

"Right! Naomi! Whizzer name yeah? Come in!" she shoved me in grabbing my stuff and wheeling it next to one of the two beds.

"The pink bed is mine, but the other one is yours! Obviously…" she giggled at herself.

I was silently taking in the room, not to mention my roommate who seemed like she was going to explode with giddiness right next to me. Jeezus. This is like a five year olds bedroom, bright pink bedding, horse posters plastered to the wall.

"You've come a couple months late into the year so you've missed the newcomers' icebreaker but I invited some of my best friends to come over later so you can meet them! I'll leave you for a bit though and left you get settled. You probably want a moment to take it all in. Bathroom is on the left! I'll be back in a few hours!"

I sat on my bed and took in a deep breathe as soon as she left. I really hope not everyone here is as crazy as she is. I mean it's nice she can be so happy, but I can see myself getting tired of it, especially when I'll eventually have some test to cram for… And as for her friends? I was a bit anxious about having to make friends on my own, but it was a relief to know I'd get a chance to have them come to me on a smaller scale. Although, who knows, it still might be a bit awkward… And then there was that uniform, the white short-sleeved, button-up blouse with a pocket tucked into a black, short, pleated skirt… It was like some kind of nerd porn clash met crazy with those socks she was wearing…Not that I cared. I reminded myself I was just here for the politics courses.

I opened up one of my suitcases and pulled out my plain bedding, solid black on one side and solid white on the other. I laid it out on the bed I was going to be sleeping on for the rest of the year, as well as switching the current pillowcase with the plain black one I brought. I smiled to myself, one step closer to being settled in.

I walked to the wooden dresser that was against the wall between our beds. Above it was a large mirror that had a few small cracks, probably from previous people roughhousing. The drawers closer to my half of the room were empty so I quickly folded my stuff neatly into them.

The only things left in my suitcases were a few of my favorite politics posters from the various campaigns and strikes I had participated in back home over the summer. The last thing I did was shove my now empty suitcases under the bed. The digital clock on the dresser read, "7:33 PM." I still had time left until they'd be coming… Yawning, I realized I was still sleepy from the long drive here so I slipped out of my blue converse shoes and got under the covers to lay my head. Surely I'd be awake by the time they'd come…

I was wrong. I heard the door slam open and lots of laughing, causing me to shoot up and look at the clock. "9:10 PM." Shit.

"Christ! Sorry Naomi! I should've waited until tomorrow to bring them over!" She was practically slapping herself for waking me up. She honestly seemed like she wanted to be a really good roommate, so I felt guilty and told her it wasn't her fault.

"It's alright Panda." She immediately relaxed when she heard me use her nickname.

Don't get me wrong though, I hated being woken up from a nap, but Panda looked to be trying so hard…I figured I'd clear up the whole not waking me up from my sleep thing later. As for now, there were three girls standing awkwardly behind Panda. Well, one of them actually didn't seem to feel so awkward.

In fact, the petite brunette with the blue eyes walked right past Panda and sat on the bed across from me. She remained silent and stared at me slightly smirking. I rolled my eyes, blocking my reaction as I shifted the covers so that they weren't on top of me anymore. The others got settled into the room while Panda got some drinks from the mini fridge that was at the end of her bed. That would come in handy, I thought to myself. Panda then took a seat between two brunettes while the red-headed one sat on the floor leaning against Panda's bed. I decided to get a better look at each of them while they were distracted opening their drinks and but then Panda spoke up.

"This is Effy Stonem, she's a couple of doors down and rooms on her own, so she visits frequently." The brunette with the blue eyes smirk was gone, and she just nodded. Stonem… she must be the rich kid with her name above the staircase… she kept staring at me though, while twisting her chain necklaces in her hand.

The brunette on the other side of Panda introduced herself next.

"I'm Katie Fitch, the hottest girl in this dam school… and she's Emily, my twin." Katie's white blouse was unbuttoned, showing off her cleavage. I judged she'd be a right bitch, so best to be on her good side. It was then that I looked down and noticed two soft brown eyes staring at me, half smiling. However, when her eyes met my gaze she blushed and quickly looked away. I suddenly felt a bit self-conscious and tried to casually fix my messy bed-head hair.

"So why'd you come here?" Score three for bluntness. Katie clearly didn't mind coming off a bit rude.

"I heard the politics courses here are the finest available."

Immediately all the girls started pissing themselves laughing. Including the mysterious Effy…

"What exactly is so funny?" I asked clearly annoyed by their reaction as soon as they had stopped laughing and were wiping their tears away. It's not like I was a bloody nerd, I just had huge determination to have a successful career and this was just all part of my plan.

Apparently, something was off, because they all started bursting out laughing again. I was getting really angry now, I hate it when people don't take me seriously.

"Do none of you have an appreciation for brilliance?"

I immediately regretted saying that. It came out a bit wrong, and they were laughing harder.

"Please—" more laughing, I could barely understand the husky voice that sent chills down my spine. "Please stop! My stomach—" the red-head was clutching her stomach laughing so hard.

I remained silent, letting them gather their breathe.

"Sorry Naomi, it's just that, that's a humongous lie. I mean this school is kind of psychotic…" Panda said as soon as she had finally caught her breathe. But the others were still holding in their laughs from that statement.

"What do you mean?" I was going to explode. There is no way in hell that the school I signed up for after doing months of research on it was going to be a right fucking joke.

"Well, I shouldn't laugh so much because well, you aren't wrong… it's just that our politics course was canceled this year. The teacher kind of offed himself. He was so fucking crazy, he jumped off the dorm roof when the candidate he spent months campaigning for lost. It was a good class, he was real passionate. A bit too passionate per say." They all started cracking up again at the last bit that Katie informed me of.

Great. My plan was ruined. No politics courses for me. And I had no other choice but to stay at this school, it would look bad for me to transfer or go back to home-schooling.

The red-head tried to talk through her laughing again, "I hope you aren't too passionate about politics, wouldn't want you to off yourself before we got a chance to get to know each other!" Everyone was laughing too loudly to hear her say it but me. When I heard her I felt a mix of mockery but still kind of touched that she gave a shit. When the slight smile appeared on my face she just blushed and looked away.

I probably was over thinking her words anyway, and my smile faded away. Still, I kind of wanted to get to know her better… they seemed like a nice bunch, besides Katie, but at least she was nice enough to tell me what was so funny.

A beeping sound in the hallway instantly made everyone stop laughing. I was kind of frightened and jumped. I thought it was some sort of fire alarm. Which brought them to laughing once again, even harder…

"Fuck sake." I muttered to myself.

Once they had all calmed down Effy spoke up. "Curfew."

"Oh right, I'm supposed to tell you about that stuff. Suppose I'm lacking in my roommate responsibilities, err, one bell from the central lounge means it's curfew. See," she pointed to the digital clock. 11 Pm. "See you tomorrow guys."

The three girls got up and left the room each nodding goodbye to me. Emily was the last one out, she kind of stopped for a second before shutting the door and then said so quietly I barely heard, "Nice meeting you, I really meant it by the way, I look forward to hanging out, so uh, don't get too upset over those politics courses…" she then shut the door too fast for me to say anything.

I was stunned. I didn't think Panda's friends were going to like me that much. I yawned and Panda threw a pillow at me.

"Oi!"

"I knew you'd like them. Goodnight Naomi!" I could hear the triumphant smile in her voice. She turned out the light and climbed under her pink covers.

I quietly changed into a T-shirt and shorts in the bathroom. I wasn't yet comfortable enough to sleep naked the way I usually do at home, and I had a feeling that it wasn't exactly the normal thing to do when you had a roommate. I slipped under the covers and before I had much time to think about the night's events I had fallen asleep smiling. The last thought that was floating in my head before I drifted to sleep was the realization that I hadn't been as upset as I thought I'd be about the politics course non-existence… and then there was the red-heads departure repeating itself over and over in my mind…

WELL ! I won't be able to update until a few days from now, but I hope I gave you a nice long chapter to read over? Please comment! It definitely brightens my day! And thanks again to all the people who added this story to their alerts! Makes me so happy to see the notifications in my email!