Part II
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I stand in my girl-boxers and tank-top, freezing and silently cursing my stupidity of getting wasted the first night here. I glance over at Shane, who looks like she's off somewhere in her own little world. Jenny is muttering something about planning revenge and Alice and Dana are looking at the ground, half-asleep.
Our punishment was to stand out in the freezing aftermath of the storm, one that was non-existent while me and Shane were up on the roof. Typical. The wet grass is soaking my feet and I think I might have pneumonia.
"Oh no!" Jenny turns and throws up. Again.
"I'm never drinking with you guys again!" she growls.
I sigh. This totally blows.
"Yeah and where the hell did you two go anyway?" Jenny narrows her eyes "You weren't in the kitchen or Miss Causley's office and suddenly, we wake up, you're all hammered and passed out, I don't get it".
"We found some rum in the cupboard" I try not to smile "We just went back upstairs".
"Sure" Jenny clutches her stomach again.
"I so have to pee" I whisper out.
"There's a bush over there" Shane mutters, pointing to where a single bush stood alone on the field that we stood on.
I laugh and shake my head "Oh no... Where you can all see me... Don't think so".
"Shane will get into your pants sometime" Jenny tells me matter-of-factly "She's been with nearly every single dyke in this place".
Ouch. That shouldn't have hurt as much as it did. "Well, I'm not adding to anyone's Dyke List" I mumble out.
"Just wait" Jenny nods at me.
"Yeah well, Shane's not my type" I bite back, a little bitter.
Jenny laughs "Shane's not your type!? Please... She's everybody's type!".
"I am right here" Shane states, annoyed.
"She's everybody's type?" I ask Jenny "Oh, so you've had her then?".
Jenny shrugs, a little less cocky than before "Well... I was new and...".
"We walked in on them" Alice announces. She looks up, exhausted.
"I had urges!" Jenny defends herself poorly "Besides, I was new and...".
"Was she any good?" I ask, grinning.
Shane shoots me a look and I shrug.
Jenny goes quiet.
"Oh my god!" I squeal "You didn't, did you?".
"Twice" Alice in-puts again.
"Oh shut up" Jenny snaps.
"How much longer?" Dana tilts to the side, leaning on Alice's shoulder.
"Ask the sex god" I mutter bitterly.
Shane shoots me another look but I ignore it. I'm so done with liking her. She's not adding me to her freebie list.
"Screw this" I step forward and a couple seconds later, the hose sprinklers come on. I shriek as it hits everybody else.
"You couldn't resist, could you?" Jenny screams at me.
"The bush!" Alice shouts.
"The bush!?" I cry back. What the hell is she thinking?
I feel Jenny grab my hand and pull me towards the bush that they're heading too. We get behind the bush and Jenny winces at her hair.
"Freaking cold!" I shiver.
"I will fucking kill Miss Causley! Look at my fucking hair!" Jenny screams.
"This is all your fault!" Jenny adds, pointing to me.
"My fault!?" I retort "I had to pee! It's not my fault that Causley has eyes on the freaking castle! And she controls the freaking water system!".
"Will you all just shut up!?" Dana screams.
We go quiet and stare. Wow. It's the first time I've seen Dana not all nervous and shy.
"Geez" Jenny mutters "Whatever".
"On three" Alice announces.
"No" me and Jenny cry at the same time.
"On three" Alice nods, taking Dana's hand.
I automatically link hands with Shane and Jenny. "Three" Alice cries and we jump up, running towards the castle like it was life and death.
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2 Hours Earlier
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"Ow" I clutch my head. It feels like it's about to explode. Something is about to explode. Something's ringing... Beeping... My arm flails out and I whack Shane's alarm clock to the floor, hearing it smash.
"Sorry" I mutter to Shane, who's sighing softly against my chest.
"Shane" I mumble, shaking her a little. She's laid half on-top of me and half off. She mumbles something incoherent and I frown.
"Shane?" I repeat "Shane?".
"Fire!" I hear Dana's voice scream "Fire!".
"Dammit it!" Jenny cries before clutching her stomach and throwing up.
"Shane!" I jerk up and she rolls to the floor, shrieking with a thud.
I rub my eyes and see Dana throwing her blanket over a pillow that is covered in flames.
"Oh my god" I pull Shane up. Alice is helping her with the fire when Miss Causley bursts in, holding a frying pan.
"Uh!" Dana puts the fire out with a last whack and waves her hand about to move the smoke.
"What is going on!?" Miss Causley screamed.
"Jenny wanted a smoke" Dana explained, out of breath "And—".
"It was an accident" Jenny groans, throwing up again.
Miss Causley sighs and then narrows her eyebrows "Why do I smell alcohol?" she frowned "How many of you are drunk?".
We all raised our hands.
"My office!" Miss Causley cried, annoyed "Now!".
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2 Hours Later
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Me, Shane, Dana, Alice and Jenny stood outside the castle, banging on the door. The rain wouldn't give up and I was absolutely freezing.
"You had to chance it!" Jenny curses at me.
I'm so sick of her.
"You wanna go right now?" I retort "Cause we can go right now, Barbie!".
"Carmen" Shane pulls me off to the side "Don't, okay? We're in enough trouble as it is".
"Yeah well, don't do me any favours" I snap.
"Are you mad at me?" Shane frowns.
"No Shane" I shake my head "I don't even know you" I walk back to the door and kick it roughly. It flies open and they stare at me in shock.
"What?" I shrug "I took a self-defence class".
I'm in the heat of the castle in seconds and just as I'm about to move, Miss Causley appears in front of us, holding towels. She gives us the towels and sighs.
"My office, girls" she points the way and we walk off, wrapping the towels around ourselves.
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I sigh ironically at our situation. I'm squeezed between the wall and Shane. I'm so sure she's grinding against me on purpose. Dana, Alice and Jenny are also squeezed into a bench.
"I'm so disappointed" Miss Causley is sat behind her desk, looking at us.
"Tell you what" she begins "I'll give a month's probation... And if you still can't live together, then I'll split you up... Meanwhile, I have some chores for you to do..." she produces a list from her desk and hands it to Dana.
"You'll work together" Miss Causley adds "Eat together, live together... Until you can learn to get along... Understood?".
Dana, Alice and Jenny nod.
"Off you go" Miss Causley tells us "You're already late for classes so just go back and get cleaned up for dinner... After dinner, you can start your detentions and then before Supper, you can start your chores... Bedtime curfew will be 10pm, no later, are we clear, girls?".
"Yes" Dana and Alice mutter together.
"Good, off you go" Miss Causley watches us leave.
"That bitch" Jenny mutters when we'll outside her office.
"I call hot water!" Alice shrieks, jumping upstairs to the attic.
"Shit" Shane sighs.
"No!" Jenny runs after her.
"What?" I frown.
"We only get a certain amount of hot water" Dana explains "Sometimes, we end up sharing with each other".
"Yeah" Shane suddenly smiles "I'll share with you, Carmen".
"Great" I grin falsely back. She wants to talk, fine, we'll talk... But if she thinks she's adding me to her 'dyke' list, then she can forget it.
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"You wanna tell why you've been sniping at me since this morning?" it's the first thing Shane asks as she closes the bathroom door behind her.
"Sniping?" I frown "I don't know what you're talking about, Shane?".
"Sex god?" Shane mocks my voice "Shane's not my type! Dyke List?" she moves forwards, pissed "What the fuck, Carmen?".
"Jenny was going on about how you bag girls" I shrug "And, I'm not some prize, I didn't like the fact that she implied that I'll just fuck someone because they're good in bed" I slip out of my clothes and hop into the shower before she can reply.
The cold water hits my skin and I shriek with surprise.
"Are you sure that's it?" Shane asks me and I freeze. She's taking off her clothes as well.
I brace myself as I feel her step in behind me.
"Carmen?" she whispers.
I turn on impulse and her eyes meet mine. "What?".
"Can you pass the soap?" Shane smiles.
"Sure" I turn and grab the soap, cursing silently.
"Here" I give it to her and she quickly rubs her hand over it and then over her body.
Oh god. Help me.
I can't help but stare at her. She's so perfect. Her lanky frame is such a turn on, her breasts are small and perky and oh my god, are those abs real? Shit, did she catch me looking? No, thank god...
The curve of her shoulder blade is graced with soft skin and all I want to do is run my hand over it. Her back arches in and I can see her spine showing through.
I glance down and I know that if she turns, she'll know. I'll be busted. There's no way that nobody could say that I was not admiring her... My face just shows longing.
Her legs are so smooth and long and she moves them like she was dodging nails on the shower floor.
"Carmen?" her voice jumps me out of my chain of thought.
"Huh?" I look up.
"Soap" she gives it to me and we successfully trade places as she leans under the shower to wash the soap off. I'm a little self-conscious and I know that she's looking at me exactly the way I looked at her. Shit.
I rub the soap over quickly, wanting this torture to be over. I amuse myself with other things as I stand next to her and let the water run over me.
I shiver and freeze when I feel Shane's hand run down my back. I turn and question her with my eyes.
"Sorry" she mumbles under the water "You had a little bit of soap on...".
"Oh" I nod "Thanks" I wet my long dark hair and look around for shampoo.
"Here" Shane hands me the bottle. I glance up and she's already got shampoo in her short locks. A bit of shampoo has run down her face and I can't stop myself when I reach out and wipe it aside.
She smiles at me a little and I go back putting the shampoo in my hair. We both stand under the shower in attempt to get our hairs rinsed. It's no surprise when her hair is rinsed a lot quicker than mine and I freeze again when she grabs the end of my hair and rinses the soap out.
"Shane" I began.
"Hang on" she pulls my head back until I'm right under the shower and I have to bit her lip in order to not moan as her fingers run through my hair.
3 and a half minutes later when she says she's done, I turn around and our dark eyes meet with something I didn't know existed in me at all.
Shane turns the shower off and I hop out quickly so she can too. I wrap the towel around myself and start of dry myself off. Shane does the same, as I pull on my clean girl-boxers and pyjama quarter-lengths. I use the towel around my body to wrap my hair up and I feel her eyes on my chest, even as I pretend that I don't.
I slip on a matching tank-top and look up to find her in boxers and a black tee-shirt. She's rung her short hair with the towel and I guess I'm a little envious of how easy her hair can dry. Mine takes forever. Seriously.
We hung our towels up and enter back into the dorm room. Jenny is curled up in bed. She's obviously missing dinner until we have to do detention and chores.
Dana and Alice are sat on Alice's bed, reading a magazine.
"Al, will you pick me something up when you go down for dinner?" Shane asks as she slumps down on her bed.
"Me too" Jenny mumbles from her bed.
"Me three" I add as her brush my damp hair out.
"Fine" Alice rolls her eyes "Pizza and chips alright?".
"Great" Shane gives her the thumbs up.
I pull my hair into a high bun and then shove a hair-band up my forehead so my fringe won't come out. I grab some socks from my bed and pull them on. I might as well have my converses ready for after dinner. Detention and then chores. It's so not right.
I feel Shane's eyes on me so I look over "What?" I frown.
"Nothing" she shrugs.
"I don't feel well" Jenny mumbles from her covers.
"You're not backing out of chores" Alice warns her "You said you felt a lot better in the shower so don't try worm your way out of it".
"I'm not" Jenny sits up "I just don't feel well, it's not a crime, is it?".
Alice gives her a look and goes back to reading the magazine with Dana, who seems to want nothing to do with the conversation or argument they're having.
"Carmen" Shane motions me over. I go, frowning and sit between her legs.
"You know Spanish, right?" Shane asks quietly.
I nod "Yeah, for 7 years, I grew up in a Spanish orphanage" I wait "What?".
"Well, there's this Spanish test coming up and I was wondering if you could tutor me?" Shane blurted out. Oh, she seemed embarrassed. She's so cute when she's embarrassed.
"Sure" I beam.
Shane smiles back.
Author's Note:
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