....ladies {Dorm 202}

[Dennis Pautler]

(dated to the first week of July)

After the end of the school year, Dennis would be assigned to a new dorm room. New vacancies and all that. He didn’t much care.

He’d just gotten back from a few weeks at his grandparents’, back at Nebraska where the sun beat down in the summertime; it was less intense here, but still bright and hot, and he’d only just now scraped the sunglasses he’d been wearing to the top of his hairline. He didn’t have much to haul over to his new dorm. The furniture was already set up, so all he was carrying was a few loose ends and a backpack stuffed with clothes.

He was halfway expecting no one to be there. A lot of students were still on vacation, seeing family and whatnot, and a good portion of the dorms seemed deserted. When he crossed the living area he found he was wrong. Introductions would be a little sooner than he’d expected.

And they were all girls. Dennis brushed his shirt off, catching one of the backpack’s vinyl strings on accident. Then he raised a palm, quickly, before sticking it in his back pocket.

“Hey. Don’t mind me,” he said. “Just moving in for the rest of the year.”

[Misaki Kobayashi]

Misaki set her final knick-knack on her carefully organized desk. Carefully organized... heavens knew it wouldn't stay like that for long. She'd left her bedroom door open, as she typically did so long as she wasn't trying to focus hard on something. And moving in wasn't something she had to focus overly on. It mostly consisted of unpacking her many items from various fandoms-- from a mini TARDIS hanging from the ceiling, to the lightsaber laid alongside all her books on the bookshelf over her desk.

She'd gotten back in the day before, after a pleasant vacation with her family in Japan. It had been relaxing, as it always was, as well as tiring, again, as it always was. She'd slept most of the day away, but still she had some residual jet lag, as evidenced by her hair, which was in some disarray, as well as the soft Iron Man pajamas she'd opted for spending the day in.

When she caught the sound of someone entering the living area, she immediately moved to the doorway of her bedroom to see who had arrived. A guy. She wasn't sure she'd seen him before, she hadn't met him before at least.

She grinned a bit at his greeting, albeit somewhat tiredly. "Salutations, roomie," she said in greeting. "Misaki." She gave a short bow, a habitual motion. "Nice to meet you....?" she trailed off, waiting for his name.

[Danielle Cooper]

Personally, Dani was thankful to be getting new roommates. She hadn’t had a particular problem with the previous two boys, but they were hardly good company in the electrokinetic’s opinion. She didn’t dislike them, but she didn’t like them, either.

It was one of the first vacations she wasn’t leaving Vermont, as she normally traveled back to Oregon for the holiday. She stayed partially because her parents had a touring summer show and wouldn’t be around anyway. That and because of a certain aerokinetic she wanted to hang out with.

Unfortunately, said aerokinetic was busy for the day, and so Dani was set on having a marathon of the original X-Men cartoon. It was dated and brilliant, but after four hours she had found herself getting hungry. She pushed herself off the bed, making her way into the common room and turned on the water boiler. Although she could had gone to the cafeteria and gotten something, pouring hot water into a cup and waiting for three minutes was the most convenient and quickest way to get something to eat.

Just as she reached into the cupboard containing a stash of instant noodles, the common room door opened. Naturally, she turned to look who it was. A guy. Upon his introduction she flashed him a friendly grin, but before she could respond someone came out of what she had assumed was an empty room.

Wait, what? When did another student move in here? Dani blinked in confusion. Then again, she had been keeping herself busy over the past few days to really have taken notice. “Welcome to 202. Both of you.” She replied, still keeping a chipper demeanor despite her surprise.

[Lucy Serrano-Blaise]

What an absolute bloody clusterfuck.

Lucy barely just got back from her short trip back to Australia, and honestly, it was as interesting as she expected it would be. There were a few greater moments against the inevitable horrible ones; why are you going back? Shouldn't you be done by now? What've you been doing that means you failed again?

You have to try harder, Lucky.

When she got back, she was thankful to be jet lagged like-fucking-woah, because it meant she could actually sleep. Lucy had appeared out of the dorm about twenty hours later at some ridiculous hour in the morning. So things were still a little messed up. Though really, the thing that fucked her up the most was not having Penny around. She might have graduated, but she was still living here. She just didn't need to be back for another month or so.

On this particular day, she'd left to hit the vending machine quickly. The line was weirdly shit, and so she took her time. When she got back - candy procured in the back pocket of her shorts - the weird new asian girl was still prancing around like a bloody lunatic and Dani was still being Dani. Apparently at some point Hammel decided they needed a dude to evidently butch up the joint.

She realised this when she opened the door behind him and looked at him. His ink was relatively settled, but she still felt it nonetheless. She finally looked back up from her phone, her eyes darting towards her door as she took evident steps towards it.

Her eyes were on her phone moments later, and she turned to step backwards towards the door instead.

"Thank fuck you rocked up," The Australian offered, the freshly inked rocket on her thigh actively shifting across her skin, like powering through an evident vacant stint of actual space. Billowing smoke and all, "Another one'a these and I'd be outnumbered by a pretty hardcore outbreak of yellow fever."

[Dennis Pautler]

The first one to greet him was a small girl, looked to be what they called Asian, of which there were a whole lot more here compared to his hometown in Nebraska. She even did the little bow. He wasn’t sure if he should mimic it, or if he should go on as normal, so he responded first with an “uh”, and then “It’s Dennis,” along with a complimentary smile, afterwards.

Soon Dani appeared, too, and his smile grew wider to mirror hers. Today was a great day, he decided. His dorm was full of cute girls, though they were both so much smaller than he, and delicate-looking, so he felt he’d have to maneuver around them as best he was able with his six-feet-one, long, lanky frame. His hands, grasping the strap of his backpack, seemed so large compared to the ones clasped together at Misaki’s front. His face was growing pink. Don’t be a creep, he thought. Just don’t be a creep.

He was more at ease with Lucy, at least on first impressions. She was tattooed like he was, though he missed the way they moved – he concentrated first on her face, then the words out of her mouth, loud like he was, too. He immediately reciprocated. Dennis huffed and turned his head. “Is that what they call it?” he said, one side of his mouth dimpled. “Better call 911 ‘cause I got - ”

‘A bad case’, was the rest of it, but he’d enough self control to realize that might compromise his don’t be a creep rule. Dennis paused to rub the back of his neck. He covered up the pause in conversation with a little laugh. “Anyway,” he said, raising his head to scan the rooms, “Which one’s mine?”

[Misaki Kobayashi]

Misaki quickly decided that the new guy, Dennis, and Lucy were probably going to be the ones getting along best. Unless their similarities ended up causing them to not get along, which had happened before. But their initial exchange definitely tended toward them getting along. She just hoped having the two of them in the room wouldn't result in too much loud extrovertedness going on. She enjoyed a good time, same as anyone, but that didn't mean she wanted noise happening when she was trying to get her quiet time.

She waved at Danielle--at least, that was what she thought she remembered their fourth roommate, who wasn't a guy, being named. She did her best to get roommate names down quickly, and in advance if possible. It made connecting with them much easier. And Dennis and Danielle's names were simple to recall, since they were both "D" names. Lucy had been a little harder to remember, but she felt it would get it down pretty quickly.

She didn't catch on to why Dennis cut himself off, but she offered a smile nonetheless. She motioned to to the empty room when he asked which room was his, and also asked in return, "Do you need any help bringing things in?" Though she managed to keep her voice at a normal level, not allowing it to drop to her more shy tone, she found it somewhat difficult. The more people who were around that she didn't know well, the harder it was to not revert to her less than extroverted tendencies.

Like keeping her hands clasped tightly in front of her, as she was doing now. Ah well, if that was the worst of it, she could deal. So long as she kept her voice at a normal tone, and kept her confident air. All the same, she would be grateful when she'd gotten to know everyone better, and so feel more comfortable around them.