It was the early morning when Max received a knock at her door. Classes weren't actually supposed to begin until the next day, so there was no reason she had to be up this early right just yet. When she came to from sleep, her radio was still playing that soft indie music in the background that she had put on the night before, and the sun was just peaking through her blinds at this hour. Her room was still a hot and heavy disheveled mess, because she had yet to finish unpacking everything that she had brought with her to Blackwell. Max was still quite the procrastinator, but oh well, she had plenty of time to settle into her room over the course of the school year. Didn't most teenagers have messy rooms anyway? Who was Max to break that norm?
Opening her tired blue eyes, she reached to rub the sleep out of them, and that was when a second knock could be heard. Whoever was at the door was growing quite impatient. "Coming!" She called out groggily as she finally rolled over in her small twin sized bed. Max had hoped to sleep in on this lovely sunday morning, so whoever was knocking had better be worth it, but the photographer already had a small feeling that she knew who it was. She stood up, fixed her shirt so that her stomach wasn't hanging out, and inched her way over to the door, maneuvering through boxes of miscellaneous items along the way. She was determined to finish unpacking her room tonight, even if she had to stay up late. Maybe she could get Kate to help her finish putting her things away.
When she opened the door, she didn't expect Kate Marsh to be on the other side of it. To say Max was a little shocked was an understatement, because she did not expect Kate to show up at her door at the break of dawn, this early in the morning. An apologetic smile graced her pretty face as she stood in front of Max, wearing a cute outfit, looking dressed and ready to go for the day already. "I'm so sorry Max, I didn't mean to wake you." Kate spoke with slight urgency, her brown eyes darting to Max's blue ones. Max simply didn't know what to say, she was still half asleep if she was being honest with herself. But what was Kate doing here so early? What did she want? "Sometimes it's easy to forget that I'm an early bird." She was speaking about herself, and Max couldn't help but to think her nervous demeanor was quite cute.
"It's fine." Max waived it off. "I've gotta start getting up early soon anyway, right?" She smiled back at the other girl. Rubbing the sleep out of her eyes, she looked at Kate once more, "What did you want, Kate?" She inquired, followed by a small yawn. What could someone want at six o'clock in the morning other than to wake them up? It was no secret that Kate was an early bird, and she'd been one for the majority of her life. On the other hand though, Max was slightly relieved that she and Kate were so dependent on each other already. At least she had at least one friend for when school started tomorrow. She wouldn't feel so alone after all.
"I was hoping I could treat you to breakfast." Kate smiled a bright grin.
"Breakfast?" Max inquired.
"There's a really great diner in town, best pancakes ever." The blonde girl tried to persuade.
Max sighed, mostly to herself, and stood there weighing the pros and cons of going to breakfast with Kate. Once she was up, she couldn't go back to sleep, so she might as well get dressed and head out for the day. Plus, she had been wanting to spend more time with Kate anyway, she wanted to get to know the christian girl a little bit better. "Breakfast sound nice." Max replied. She hadn't really had a decent breakfast since she had arrived at Blackwell, but merely living off take out and microwaveable food. "Could you give me a few minutes to get dressed?" She asked, and Kate nodded in agreement.
The brown haired girl then watched as Kate walked away, and back into her room. Once she was out of sight, Max closed her door and scurried to find clean clothes to change into. When she had finally found a pair of jeans and a t-shirt, she was satisfied. After that change of clothes, she looked in the mirror to check her hair, and grimaced slightly. She looked like a hot, tired mess. Coffee would be a must have when the arrived at the diner. When she was finally ready, she grabbed her messenger bag that had her wallet, cell phone, and journal in it, and slipped it over her shoulder. Hopefully she hadn't kept Kate waiting too long.
Max walked across the hall to room 222, and knocked on Kate's door, only to have the other girl answer it seconds later. "Ready?" Kate inquired with a small smile.
"Yup." Max replied.
"You don't mind taking the bus, do you?" Kate asked, "I don't have my own car yet." She added sheepishly.
"No, it's okay. I don't have my own car yet either." Max answered as she watched Kate close and lock her door. The two girls then headed outside the girl's dorm in ample chit chat, talking about whatever came to mind until the bus would finally arrive to pick them up. Luckily, it was already such a nice day out; sun shining, and birds chirping, so Max didn't mind standing and waiting for the bus. Blackwell was such a huge school campus, and Mas hoped that when classes started tomorrow, she wouldn't get lost. She had spent her free time exploring the campus, but still, Max was never that great at directions.
"There's the bus." Kate said once she saw the bus round the corner. Hopefully this little breakfast rendezvous would be the start of a really great friendship between Max and Kate, because Max was already so enticed with the other girl. And she felt that Kate felt the same way already as well. They would become the best of friends, and Max hoped that she had some classes with Kate too. She made that a mental note to bring it up during their breakfast conversation. If they had classes together, they could spend more time together, and Max really wanted that.