Chapter 24 Roommates (1/2)

The girl's name was Sarah.

She was a rather petite girl at only 5 feet tall, and of Chinese descent. Her hair was dark, cut in a bob style that framed her slightly round shaped face, reaching her shoulders. She had recently moved to the country when her father got transferred. Hence, her ignorance of the Smith Twins and the Elite Five.

Her father made her attend Sakura Academy, and to live in the dorms as he didn't have time to truly take care of her. Her mother had passed on the year before, and her father still found it difficult to handle his grief - and hers. So he did the next best thing. He let someone else do the 'taking care of'.

Sarah didn't know anyone yet from the dorm, and she had merely come down to try to make some new friends before school began. Her roommate hadn't arrived yet, and she had no idea when that would be. Initially, Sarah tried to make some friends the night before, but found that most hung out with their respective roommates. She didn't have the courage yet to break the ice, and thus, she had hoped to be more successful at the lounge.

That was another reason why she hadn't known that one of the new arrivals was her new roommate. And she couldn't have guessed that her innocent question would have caused such a reaction!

”Which hole did you crawl out from, not to know them?” asked one, snorting. She felt that Sarah's question was purely an act seeking attention - which worked, since Kyle actually looked at her and smiled! At .. at this little thing! Jealousy burned inside of her.

Sarah gulped, not knowing how to respond or why the animosity was being directed at her.

”Oh come on, Janice,” said another, ”It's obvious it has to be from some backwater village. Just look at her clothes!” They both then peeled in laughter.

Sarah looked down at her T-shirt and jeans. Sneakers. What? What was wrong with them? It was clean, and comfortable. She looked at the two girls. They were dressed in jeans as well, but had on heels and a blouse. Sarah shrugged, not bothered. She didn't know why these girls were being so nasty, but she really couldn't be bothered.

As they were laughing, Sarah then walked away.

”Oh look, the little mouse is running away!” said Janice and Sarah frowned, but didn't look back. She went to the lift that would take her to dorm room, thinking that it would be better for her to just wait in the room until it was time to attend school. Making friends can wait another day. Today was just too exhausting.

Sarah got off her floor and walked to her dorm room. It was then that she realised there was quite a crowd in the corridor. ”Excuse me, excuse me,” she said as she squeezed through whenever she could. The crowd was even denser nearer to her dorm room, and she couldn't quite push through anymore.

One girl in front of her turned back and said, ”Stop pushing!”

”I'm sorry! But I just want to get to my room. Can you please move aside?” Sarah pleaded.

The girl harrumphed, then replied, ”Yeah, right. Give me another excuse. You just want to get to see him better, isn't it?”

”Huh? See who?” Sarah asked, puzzled.

Before the other girl could reply, Matron's clear voice was heard, ”Sarah? Is that you? Come here, child.”

”Excuse me, Matron Camillia is calling me,” insisted Sarah to the girl in front. The girl had no choice but to make a way through since the Matron called her.

Sarah's entire gaze was on the people around her, and on the floor as she slowly made her way through. She loudly let out the breath that she didn't realise she had been holding, with a 'phew' and she gave one last glance behind her, mumbling, 'crazy people blocking the corridor'.

She froze when she heard a slight laugh in front of her and her head whipped back in front, her eyes seeing a chest right in front of her. She then looked up, and was greeted by the same intense blue eyes she had locked eyes with in the lobby.

”Hi,” she squeaked out, and he laughed again, louder this time, causing the girls around to just sigh.

”Hi,” he said, ”The name's Kyle. And you must be Sarah, my sister's roommate.”

”Sister?” Sarah repeated then when the words clicked, her eyes brightened, ”Roommate?” Sarah turned to her room, looking in. There, she saw a girl taking out several soft toys from a bag and arranging it lovingly on the bed.

”Kayla!” shouted Kyle at the doorway, ”Your roomie Sarah is here!”

Kayla turned, and Sarah gasped. Even to her, she found Kayla's beauty breath taking. Kayla came rushing over excitedly, grabbing both of Sarah's hands, saying, ”Hi roomie! Call me Kay!”