Sunday, January 28, 2007

Untitled (collaborative with Lydia) chap 1, post 1

Chapter 1, post 1

The sun shone bright over Marie City University, yet somehow it only served to make Mandy Thomas sick to her stomach. In her hand she held her college fate, her dorm assignment. Building J room 150. Her roomate would not be Angela Picatto as she'd once thought, no the name beside her's read Bree Palmer. Building J was right before her, yet somehow she couldn't bring herself to open the door and walk inside. Whomever Bree Palmer was, she wasn't what Mandy enjoyed. Mandy Thomas liked what she knew, and what she knew only. Her home town, her friends, her boyfriend of five years...no, rooming with a complete stranger was not on her to-do list.

"Could you move? You're sort of blocking the door!" a voice called from behind her.

Quickly, Mandy shifted out of the way, pulling her books closer to her as she watched a human tornado dressed in a business suit fly past her. Shaking her head, Mandy pulled her purse strap closer to her shoulder and walked inside the dorm. With each step she took, she looked at the number beside the room. 100, 102, 104..her breath was getting harder to catch as she made her way toward her doom. 148 loomed just ahead, and Mandy couldn't make herself take another step.

"Are you standing in the middle of the hallway for a reason?" asked the same voice who'd demanded her to move only minutes before.

"Um..yes." she replied calmly, careful to not let her voice carry too much emotion. Mandy Thomas had learned the hard way that people could be cruel.

"And that reason would be?" this girl was not budging, she stood before Mandy grey eyes assessing. Her blonde hair was pulled up into a pretty bun, something Mandy's hair would never do as it was just too frizzy. Aside from having beautiful hair and incredible eyes, this woman seemed to have confidence, and as well she should with a body like that!

"I..mm..was looking for my room." Mandy handed her schedule to the girl, knowing that the stupid card could get her out of nearly anything.

"Well, don't be silly! You're in my room!"

Mandy could feel her self-confidence taking a nose dive as she stood before whom she now assumed was Bree Palmer. "Oh..great." She sighed, moving past her and laying her books on the desk provided for her. The room was larger than her room at home, and her things had already been placed inside courtesy of her father and brother.

"I guess we'll be living together now. I'm Bree Palmer, and you are?" Bree, sat on the bed she'd apparently claimed for herself.

All that Mandy could do was stare at her roomate, "Mandy Thomas." she replied, shaking Bree's slender hand.

"Mandy..that's quaint."

Her giggling made Mandy cringe, but she sighed and bore it. She had a feeling that this year would bring her a lot of that.

To be Cont. by Lydia

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