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Chapter IIII: Roommates

I bit my lip as I stood before the door with the number 106. What would happen if I stepped into the room behind it? But then I thought, whatever would happen, it wouldn't be worse than anything else I'd gone through. Especially the incident that happened earlier.

I reached for the doorknob, but then decided to knock. It would probably leave a better impression than if I just barged in. I tapped the hard brown wood that made the door and waited.

"Who is it?" asked a high-pitched voice.

"Samus," I replied.

I heard whispers, but couldn't pick out the words. Then there were footsteps closing in to the door from the other side. And then the door was opened to reveal the blonde-haired princess with the cheerful attitude.

"Oh, hey Samus! Please come in!" she said in her high-pitched voice.

She opened the door wide enough for me to get through. The room, well, it wasn't as bad as I imagined it to be. It was the same color as my old room. There was a bunk bed and a twin-sized bed.

The single bed had white sheets and a pink comforter with a little animated mushroom pattern. The pillows were light-pink with laces around the border.

The top bed of the bunk had white sheets and and a lilac-colored comforter with a small lacy pattern. The pillows were a lighter purple and also were bordered with laces. The bottom bunk just had plain white sheets and pillow.

A white carpet covered the floor, and a small coffee table stood in the middle of the two beds. Behind the beds was a large glass sliding door that led out to a balcony. And to the far left of the room was another door (I think it was the bathroom door). The burnette princess sat at the little table with a teacup in her hands. She waited until I had taken the room's features before saying,

"Welcome Samus, I hope you enjoy your stay here with us," she smiled.

The blonde princess skipped to the bunk bed and pointed to the bottom bunk.

"This bed's yours!" she announced happily.

"Uh, Ok," I said.

She then pointed to the top bunk.

"And that one is Zelda's,"

Then she pointed at the twin-sized bed.

"And that one is mine!"

I nodded.

"Oh, I can help you accessorize your bed if you like," the blonde's smile grew wider.

I shrugged. I really didn't want my bed any fancier (even though it really wasn't) than it was now. There was no point in doing so.

"Would you like some tea?" Zelda asked.

Even though I wasn't much into having tea, I nodded just to please my new roommate. Zelda smiled and stood up.

"Ok! I'll go get you some," she said cheerfully.

She walked out of the room, and I stood next to my bed. The blonde one tapped my armor.

"It must be SO uncomfortable in there," she said, "You should take it off,"

She lifted my helmet off my head, while I tried to remember what her name was.

"You know, everyone was so surprised to find out you weren't a robot," she said.

I shrugged. Peach! Peach was her name! I started taking off my suit.

"I hope you don't mind me asking, but, why is your face so red?" Peach asked suddenly.

I tried my best to not pause what I was doing to think of a quick answer..

"It was, hot in my suit," I lied. It was really never hot in my armor.

"Oh," Peach said, and she sat down at the coffee table, as did I when I had completely slipped out of my armor and was in only my body suit.

It was completely silent until Zelda arrived with my tea. She set it before me and took her seat. Peach started to look irritated, and that seemed to amuse Zelda.

"Peach hates it when there's no conversation," Zelda whispered to me.

I smiled. I tried to thin of something interesting enough to get a conversation starting, but I wasn't the best person for that kind of stuff.

"Hey!" Peach blurted out.

"What?" Zelda and I asked at the same time.

"Did you hear Ike yell earlier?" Peach asked excitedly.

"Yeah, I think he yelled at someone for being in his room," Zelda answered thoughtfully.

I tried my best to keep from turning red, but I only felt my face turn hotter by the second.

"Samus, what's wrong?" Peach asked.

"Do you have a fever?" Zelda asked putting her hand on my forehead.

I bit my lip. Why? Why? Of all subjects, Peach just had to choose this one to talk about? I shook my head to get Zelda's hand off.

"No, it's just a little hot in here," that was my only excuse for turning red.

"Oh, I'm sorry that we don't have air conditioners in here," Peach apologized.

Of course I knew that! But couldn't Master Hand at least be a little modern?

"But I could open the door to the balcony," Zelda rushed and opened the sliding door.

A cool breeze instantly swept through the room, and I let out a pretend sigh of relief.

"Thank you," I said.

Zelda nodded and took her spot at the little table.

"Well, who do you think was in Ike's bedroom?" Peach asked as if nothing had interrupted the conversation.

"I don't know. Maybe a stalker?" Zelda answered.

"But who would be the stalker?" Peach insisted.

I took long breaths to help myself relax.

"Maybe it was a rat?" Zelda and Peach shivered at the thought.

What was wrong with rats? Oh yeah. I should've expected princesses to be afraid of the little dark rodents.

"We should ask him tonight at dinner!" Peach advised.

I suddenly gulped in a large amount of air that made me cough. Peach and Zelda stared at my worriedly, but then went back to their conversation as my coughing left as soon as it came.

"Yeah! So now we have an excuse to sit at the boys' table!" Zelda smiled dreamily.

"How is that so great?" I asked. There were only those two (not including me) and the little girl, Nana, that were girls. Don't they all sit together?

Peach and Zelda looked at me with surprised looks.

"WHAT?!" they both asked at the same time.

"How is sitting at the boys' table so great?" I asked again.

"Because then you get to sit by the one you like!" Peach replied.

"Like?"

"Oh come on! You just went through a whole introduction session, and you didn't see anyone that you're interested in?!" Peach asked.

"No," I answered solemnly.

"That reminds me. Why did Captain Falcon wink at you before he saw the real you?" Zelda asked me.

"Um, we're... Old friends," I said, trying not to give out any hints that I was a brawler before.

"Oh," Peach and Zelda exchanged looks that I didn't see.

"Well, maybe you could sit next to him," Zelda suggested.

I shrugged. It would be nice to sit by somebody you already knew. Then a sudden random question popped into my head.

"Hey, do either one of you know if Master Hand is a male or a female?" I asked suddenly.

Peach giggled and said,

"M.H. is a guy! Can't you tell by his voice?"

"A female could have a deep voice Peach," Zelda stated.

"True," Peach sighed. She lifted her wrist to look at the time on the small watch that wrapped around her wrist. Her eyes widened.

"Hey! Gossip Girl is on!" she cried. Then she ran to a plasma screen TV that was hung up near the door.

I had never known that TVs could be so big! Why hadn't I noticed it when I first walked into this room?! It was WAY too huge to be unseen!!!

We spent the next half-hour watching a drama about the lives of wealthy teenagers at an elite prep school growing up on New York City's Upper East Side. It wasn't that bad, but it was a little too dramatic for me. So I hopped in to my new bed (which is the lower bunk bed mattress) and tried to get some sleep.

Peach didn't need to be entertained by conversing with anybody since she was watching something, but she kept yelling out comments to the actors on the screen like she was some director.

Zelda always agreed to Peach's comments when she asked what she thought of a particular scene. Either they both shared minds, or Zelda was just trying to keep the peppy girl happy (I'm guessing she was trying to keep Peach happy, besides, Zelda doesn't seem like the peppy girl that Peach was).

I spent who-knows-how-long listening to the two princesses chatter about the show until almost took over me. Almost....

"Samus! Get up! It's time for dinner!" Peach shook me.

I groaned. Dinner, I would have to face the spiky-haired guy who saw me in my undergarments. What he would do? What would he say? I decided the only way to hide my embarrassment was to wear my suit.

I got off my bed and was about to slip into my armor when Peach stopped me.

"What do you think you're doing?" she asked, pointing a gloved finger at me.

"Putting on my suit," I answered solemnly.

"You can't eat with that thing on!" Peach rejected, taking my suit away.

I scowled at her. What did she think she was doing?! I needed that! Peach saw my scowl and said,

"I don't think Captain Falcon would like it if you wore your robot suit, would he?"

What?! She thought I liked Captain Falcon?! I didn't like anybody, and I never wanted to! But then, why would I want to make my roommate mad? Especially since she was a princess.... Who knew what she would do to me if I disobeyed?

"Ok, fine," I gave in.

Peach smiled and grabbed my arm with one hand, and then grabbed Zelda's with another. And then, we walked to our destination of my certain doom, dinner.

I hope you liked this chapter!!! I thought it was kind of short, but at least it was updated!!! If you were wondering if why I wrote Samus saying she didn't want to fall inlove, well, that's what she thinks now. Please R&R!!!