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I opened the dorm door after a few minutes of difficulty. "FINALLY!"I heard a voice inside cry. A girl with brown hair that was super curly on one side and fully straightened and de-frizzed on the other popped her head out from behind a door to which I believed was the bathroom.

She gasped, a smile across her face.

"Hi, I'm Nudge! Welcome to the school! I'm sooo glad I finally have a roommate, it is so boring without one. Do you like pink? I sorta painted the whole dorm pink and purple and I put a bunch of One Direction posters up. So-"I slapped my hand across her mouth to prevent her from talking.

"Hi, I'm Max. Yes, it's cool you're my roommate. No, I don't like pink. I'm going to repaint my side of the room. And I'm not a fan of One Direction, sorry,"I replied.

Nudge's bright expression faltered. "Oh,"she said, which was probably the shortest thing I had heard her say. "That's...cool. So who do you like? I like Nicki Minaj, Katy Perry, and Beyonce...Did you hear Zendaya's new song? It's pretty awesome for a first song."

She paused, smiling at my eagerly. "Oh yeah, Nicki Minaj is cool, and yeah, Zendaya is really good. She's an awesome dancer, you know?"

She started to say something when a bell started ringing. "OH! That's the first bell. People with extra-curriculars in the morning. C'mon, meet my friends."

We went downstairs to the cafeteria.

I grabbed pancakes, hash browns, sausages, scrambled eggs, and bacon. Nudge led me to a table where two boys and a girl were talking.

"I'm Iggy,"the straw-berry blond boy said, grinning in a mischievous way. The other boy, Gazzy, waved. The last person, a jet black-haired girl wearing black skinny jeans, boots, a blue off-the shoulder shirt grinned at me. She was Alex.

"So where are you from?"Iggy asked.
I ate and talked. "Arizona. I got expelled from school cause I got suspended me wayyy too much, so then he was like, WTH, just leave the school."

Gazzy laughed. "Well, I'm here with my sister Angel. She's at speech and debate club now. We both wanted to leave out foster parents and study in Cali, so our parents OK'd it. I'm also too much trouble."

Iggy nodded. "My mom said that if I didn't stop exploding her living room, I would have to go to boarding school."
I raised an eyebrow.
"They make bombs,"Nudge explained, grinning.

I nodded, smiling. "Niceeee."

Alex sighed. "I've got four older siblings, and my parents thought it was better to just make me go to boarding school since all of my sibs left. They realized how much happier they are without kids."

A girl in a mini-skirt, heavy make-up, and a fake smile walked up to us, a small dog in her Gucci purse and a top-notch cell phone in hand.

I raised an eyebrow. "Need help?"I asked, turning to face her.

She rolled her eyes, hand on hip. "Which loser did you bring along today, Nudge?"she asked, flipping her perfectly curled blond hair back. Nudge stared back, eyes wide.
"Um, this is Max."
I groaned. "Girl, get your ass out of here! Everybody already knows you're jealous of Nudge!"

The girl laughed. "Why I would be jealous."

"Nudge is a) prettier than you, b) nicer than you, c) awesomer than you, and d) she's got a better sense of fashion than you do."I replied.

The girl gasped. "What? This girl has no sense of fashion! Her skirt looks like a fruit basket!"she replied in disgust.

Nudge looked surprised and upset. Iggy said, "Your hair looks like a fruit basket!"

Gazzy and I snickered and high-fived him VERY discreetly.

The girl fumed. "You should be talking, ghost boy."

Gazzy pulled on an expression like he was constipated. "I fell a bomb coming!"he shouted.

The girl screamed and dashed out of the room as fast as those death-traps could carry her. Soon, the entire cafeteria was cleared in a matter of seconds.

Iggy, Gazzy, Alex and I cracked up until we couldn't breathe. Nudge tried to look upset, but a smile played on her lips. "Thanks, you guys,"she said gratefully.

We nodded. "Yeah, don't let the brat ruin you."I said, grinning. Nudge nodded. "Ok."

"So...we have the whole cafeteria to ourselves..."Iggy said, wiggling his eyebrows.
Nudge and I rolled our eyes. Alex laughed.

"ICE CREAM!"Gazzy yelled. Iggy and Gaz sprinted to the frozen soft ice cream machine. They ducked their mouths under the machine and each of them took turns eating ice cream from the machine, dribbling ice cream allover the fronts of their shirts.

"EWW,"Nudge complained. The cafeteria door that led outside swung open with a loud THUD.

All of us stared off into that direction.

A tall, dark-haired boy stood, smirking. He was muscular, with a strong jaw and sparkling dark eyes. He wore all black, yet somehow I could tell he wasn't emo at all.

Alex reacted first. "CUUUUZZZZ NICKY BOY!"she screamed, launching herself at him. He patted her awkwardly. Alex grinned and dragged him to us.

"My friends, meet Fang. My cousin."she said.

He waved.

"Fangy, meet Iggy, Gazzy, Nudge, and our latest , MAX."she introduced.

"Hi, Fang,"I said. He grunted. Wow, he talked a lot. Gazzy and Iggy shrugged, waved, and went back to filling their faces with ice cream. I groaned. "You pigs! Not in front of the new person!"

Iggy looked up, mouth full of ice cream.

"Well, technically, you're new, but you really didn't say anything."he said. I rolled my eyes. "Idiots,"I murmured. Fang cracked a grin, smiling.

"Ok, where's the office?"he asked Alex.

"Uh, you could have went through the door to the office..."I said in a duh tone.

Fang sighed. "Alex told me to come to the cafeteria." Alex threw her hands up into the air. "Cause you're anti-social, and I wanted to introduce you, you butt face!"she said, exasperated. Fang shrugged.

Alex face-palmed and dragged him away. "See ya later, guys!"she said. Fang and Alex left.

Iggy and Gazzy shared a look. "You know what that means..."Gazzy said, grinning.

"FOOD FIGHT TO CELEBRATE THE NEWBIE MAAX!"

Oh dear.

SHIT.