It wasn't long before Myka and Pete's other room-mates trickled into the apartment, each making their own dramatic entrance, the two early arriving flatmates watching on from the living room sofa's, entertained by the others entrances. The slightly younger Claudia Donovan was next to arrive after Myka, the smaller girl almost smashed down the door frame as she entered, her equipment almost widening the entryway by a few feet as the girl yelled what Myka assumed was a nicer way of saying 'fuck'. The girl had dropped all her things on the floor once she had entered the room, her eyes widening at the sight of the new people "Sup guys? I'm Claudia" she squealed, unsure of how best to deal with the people she was going to live with for the next year, she had never been much of a people person, but she wanted her flatmates to like her.
Chuckling at the girls reaction, Myka stood and walked over to the young lady, "do you need some help with your bags?" she offered, her fingers playing with each other as she waited for a response.
"God, yes!" Claudia sighed, half due to the fact she wasn't going to have to lug all her stuff to her room alone, and the other half glad that she hadn't scared the others off yet.
Picking up half of the young girls things, Myka turned to look at Pete, "are you going to help or are you just going to sit there and eat?" Myka could barely make out a word as the boy tried to mumble a response while his mouth was full of crumbling cookies, but she assumed by his pointing at his face, the answer was no. Rolling her eyes, she turned back to the young redhead who seemed to be watching Pete with a rather bemused and entertained expression, "he's like a wild animal, isn't he?" she asked, her eyes returning to the brunette.
"It seems that way," she chuckled out loud, shaking her head before she started to walk, "which room?"
Scanning the area, the young redhead spotted the room with her letter on it, "C" she informed, pointing with her full hand towards her room, "the closest to the kitchen, sweet," Claudia almost froze as she realised how dorky that sounded, "I mean...umm."
Chuckling, Myka made her way to the other girls room and pushed the door open, "C for Claudia, that's a happy coincidence."
Sighing with relief, the young girl followed the other woman and dropped her case on the floor, she was happy that she wasn't the only one who noticed silly little things, she liked this girl, even if she didn't know her name, "Oh, I'm Claudia, by the way, probably should have started with that one, or have I already told you that? I'm sorry, I'm a bit off today, I normally remember everything."
"C for Claudia," the brunette reminded, "I'm Myka." Placing the smaller of Claudia's cases on the desk in the room, Myka scanned the area to see how similar it was to her own, "do you need help unpacking?"
Shaking her head as she began to unzip her case, the techie shot the other girl a smile, "I'm fine, thanks, I'm used to having to pack and unpack."
Myka was about to ask Claudia about her response, when the booming creature that was Pete finally followed them into the room, "Sorry, once I have food in my hand, there's no stopping me."
Both women couldn't help but role their eyes at the comment, "It's fine, I don't want your crumbs all over my carpet anyway," Claudia teased, quickly pulling her clothes out of her bag.
Pete faked offence, his features crinkling as he tried to pretend like he was hurt, giving up when neither woman responded. It was at that point the three newly acquainted flat mates were forced silent as the booming of voices echoed through from the living room, "Mom, Dad please just go, I'll be fine," one person spoke, the frustration obvious in his tone, "look, I love you both, and I know you don't want to see me leave, but you are going to embarrass me if you stay."
The three could hear the mother sigh dramatically, "fine, we'll go sweetie, I love you, oh, and don't forget to wash you underpants, you don't want to scare away the girls."
"I love you too," the boy sighed, realising how childish and harsh he may have sounded just a moment before, "I'll see you at thanksgiving." The mother placed a kiss on her sons cheek before turning to leave, the boys father giving him a firm hand shake before following his wife. The young man hadn't even noticed the three flatmates creep to the door to watch him, his eyes widened as he turned to see them staring back at him, each with a matching look of guilt on their features.
"I'm Steve Jinks" he announced, offering a single wave as a greeting, "I'm guessing you're my new flatmates?"
Each of the three started to ramble out hello's and apologies, soon falling silent when they realised Steve wouldn't be able to understand them if they all spoke at the same time. Myka stepped forward and smiled at the boy, "I'm Myka, this is Claudia and Pete," she informed, taking the time to gesture to each person as she said their name, "sorry about before, we didn't mean to eavesdrop, we didn't hear much anyway." Steve raised an eyebrow as he read the woman, his keen lie detecting skills soon picked up that the girl was lying, they had probably heard the whole embarrassing conversation, "Well that's not true, but if we could pretend that it never happened, that would be great."
Nodding at the boy, Myka tried to divert her eyes, the situation was already a little awkward. Thankfully, Pete stepped forward and shook the boys hand, "which room are you in?" he asked casually, winking at Myka to tell her to stop fretting.
"Room D," Steve replied, scanning the lounge for his door.
"Squeal," Claudia shrieked, grabbing Steve's arm and pulling him towards his room, "I'm in C, it looks like we're neighbours, Jinksy."
Steve flashed Myka and Pete a worried look as each of them let out a small laugh, the redhead certainly was...energetic.
The group spent the rest of the day getting to know each other, orientation wasn't until the next day so they didn't have to be anywhere else. They all seemed to get on rather well, Steve soon warmed up to Claudia, in fact, she soon became his favourite out of the group and Pete and Myka got on well, even though they were both complete opposites. By about 1am everyone and retired to their respective rooms, Claudia being the first to pass out, followed my Steve and then finally the other two.
Myka woke at around 4am, groggy but thirsty. Without even opening her eyes she made her way out of her room towards the kitchen, she had placed a few bottles of water in the fridge when she arrived so they could cool, she hated room temperature water. Pulling the bottle from the fridge, she blocked her eyes as the light from inside the cooler tried to penetrate her barely open eyes, wincing a little before closing the fridge. She took a sip of the water before making her way back to her room. Once she re-entered the living room, she froze, now she was a little more awake, she noticed that something wasn't right, the room felt off in some way, she had never been one for 'vibes' but if she were, she would definitely be getting one at that moment. A small light next to one of couches suddenly flickered on to reveal someone sitting quietly in the room, "hello, and who might you be?"