"This must be a mistake." I said to the office girl, unbelieving.
"It is," she replied, looking sympathetic." We're sorry, but the girls' rooms have all been filled. Unless you board in the boys' room, you won't be able to attend this school."
"But- but-" the words couldn't form in my mouth.
"But you're lucky," she said." We have coed dorm buildings, where boys and girls can live in the same hall but not in the same room. There are female facilities provided, so it won't be much different. You will just be sleeping in the same room with the opposite gender, and if anything happens, you just come back right here with a complaint."
I wanted to cry. A dorm with boys that would probably smell like deodorant and old socks and sweat? Where they would keep me from sleeping in the night with their yapping and the music from their video games? Where I couldn't even change in my own room without boys gawking at my lady parts?
"It won't be bad, honey. Come on, follow me." She handed me a map of the school, which was named Greenwood Academy,a rule book and a copy of my schedule and motioned for me to follow her.
It was a Sunday afternoon and no one was out on the halls. The office girl lead me through a series of halls and stairs and more halls, until we reached a room with a bronze label 563 above the door.
"Here you go. Six persons to a room, so you will be boarding with 5 boys. Enjoy the rest of your day." Then she walked away, leaving me alone with my suitcase in front of a door where boys were behind it. I could hear hip hop music blaring through the door.
Calm down, Nica. It's just a room with boys. If you scream at them enough they won't bother you.
I tried to convince myself with my own thoughts but failed miserably. I kept thinking, It's boys. BOYS. The opposite goddamn gender.
But I guess when life gives you a dorm with boys, you suck it up and take it.
I smoothed down my shirt and nervously lifted my hand up to the door and knocked.
With surprising speed the door flung open with a squeak." I didn't expect you till five, Tyler-" he stopped when he saw me. He looked down at me, literally, because I was only 5'3" and which caused his blue tinted black hair to fall over his coal black eyes." Wait what? Who the hell are you?"
"Nice too meet you too. I'm Nica." I said rolling my eyes. I was already being informed that I was about to live with an asshole. I hoped the other 4 boys weren't as bad. " I hope you have been informed that you are about to live with me for the rest of the year."
His mouth flew open." Huh."
"Out of the way, Marco. That's no way to speak to a young lady." Another boy with the same features as the rude one except with red-tinted black hair came pushing him aside. " Hey, I heard you were going to live with us. And sorry about my twin brother, he's a douche. I'm Marcus Lucian." He smiled, flashing a row of brilliantly white teeth.
I found myself smiling back.
"Here, let me take your bag." He picked up my bag and turned away. His twin had disappeared. I followed him in, closing the door behind me.
Suddenly, I was engulfed in a hug and lifted up into the air. "NICA!" The person shouted, spinning me around and around.
When I saw who it was I burst into tears."Hunter!" I sobbed, flinging my arms around my childhood best friend's neck.
When he put me down, he gave me another bear hug. "I heard someone named Nica was coming but I wasn't sure if it was you."he said.
"I missed you so much Hunter. I cried so much the day you moved." I admitted, hugging him back.
"Ah hem," someone coughed and we broke our hug. " It's so not the time for childhood memories." Marco had his arms folded. Both Hunter and I rolled our eyes at him.
"So this is Marco and Marcus, in case you didn't catch their names, and over there, the blonde is Christian Johansson who prefers to be called Chris and that's Grayson Lupe."Hunter placed a hand on my shoulder.
I quickly gave the boys a glance, and noted they all had one thing in common- they were all extremely, unbelievably gorgeous. Even Hunter, who I had not seen since he was 10 with braces in his mouth.
"Where will I be sleeping?" I asked, looking around the messy room. There were clothes, charging cables and other stuff strewn about the floor and the bunk beds were unmade.
"Your bed is right under Grayson's... he wanted the top." He pointed to the guy with russet brown hair and mercury gray eyes who was sitting on the top of a bunker bed, looking truly pissed at me. Asshole 2.0.
"Right," I murmured, turning my attention back to Hunter.
"Nice to meet you too, I'm Chris," the blonde guy yelled sarcastically from his bed.
I laughed. "I'm sorry. Nice to meet you, Chris." Typical blond guy name.
"How's Lilian?" Hunter inquired. Lilian was my stepmother.
"She's very happy because I'm off her hands for the rest of the year. She's the one that forced me to come here."
"Don't be mean. You know she loves you, and you love her too." Hunter playfully pinched my cheek.
"She looks like those dramatic bitches that cries over everything that goes wrong in their life." Marco interrupted, sneering.
"Marco." hissed Marcus.
"If you didn't know, I broke the nose of my school's biggest bully four times in Grade 5." I snapped." So don't go spewing crap out of your mouth before I fuck it for you."
Hunter, Chris and Marcus snickered.
"Short thing like you, that's impossible to believe." Hunter joked." But I was there every time it happened, so I wouldn't put anything against you."
"I'm hungry, I'm going to buy pizza," Marco mumbled, grabbing his wallet and heading out.
"I'm coming," yelled Chris, striding out of the room.
"He's just changing the topic. He's embarrassed to be roasted by the new girl who happens to be only half his size."Marcus stated. "Would you like to come, Nica? We usually go buy food together."
"No, I'm sure she's tired, she needs to rest." Hunter said, looking at me.
"Thanks for being my mouth's speaker," I said sarcastically.
Marcus laughed as he went out the room, pulling on his Nike sneakers.
Grayson jumped off the bed and followed the others out the door. He glared at me on his way out, and I noticed the gold flecks in his eyes.
"Did you see him glaring at me?" I asked Hunter.
"Grayson? Yeah. He still has to warm up to the the idea of living with a girl." Hunter looked down at me." Shorty."
I hit him on the arm." So tell me, who's your girlfriend now?"
Hunter's skin on top of his high cheekbones turned red. "You don't know her."
"I hope you don't play girls, Hunter, or I'll kill you."
"No," he shot me a hurt look. " Her name is Brooke and we've been together for three years now."
I smiled, glad that he's wasn't a f-boy." I can't wait to meet her. Tell her all the embarrassing stories you are probably keeping from her."
"You wouldn't dare." He play-attacked me.
"Oh yes I would." I giggled.
After we had calmed down, we sat on my bed and talked about our times together and our families." Did you know Grayson is actually my distant relative?"confessed Hunter.
"What? Ew," I fake vomited.
"He's not that bad, you know. He's probably on his period. They cause some bad mood swings." We laughed.
Chris, Grayson and the twins burst into the room, holding boxes of pizza that pulsated with a heavenly, mouth watering aroma of cheese and pepperoni. They kicked off their shoes and set the pizza boxes on the floor.
How unsanitary, I thought, but the smell of the pizza drove the thought away. Hunter got up and got us a box and I saw Grayson grab an entire box and go up the ladder to his bed.
"Wow, you boys eat a lot. I can only eat like three slices." I said, grabbing a slice.
"No wonder you never grew." Hunter said, his mouth full of pizza.
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It was past ten, but all the boys were up, keeping my sleepy ass awake with them. "Will you all shut the fuck up." I shouted. "People are trying to sleep."
They immediately quieted down, and I was able to fall asleep. But right after I did Grayson climbed into his bed loudly, awaking me again. I kicked the board above my head angrily.
"If you break something, I'm not putting a penny into it." He snorted. I was too tired to think up a response and fell back asleep.
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I hope you guys are enjoying this first chapter because it's the first time I am writing a book and I am seriously worried about how it sounds (I'm a little bit of a perfectionist ;>)
I did proofread but I'm a bit loco so there is probably some grammatical errors and so. Forgive thy.