Why So Blue? (401 Residents)

[Harmony Muller-Barton]

While Harmony's roommates were often the butt of her own special brand of extra-curriculars, she hadn't really messed when them enough lately. She'd hidden alarm clocks around the dorm about a week ago. And a few days ago she'd buttered the hallway floor outside of her roommates' bedroom doors, but that was pretty easy going for Harmony.

So tonight after she was absolutely sure that her roommates were asleep she'd teleported into each of their bedrooms, carefully peeled back their bed sheets, and sprinkled bright blue Kool-aid powder everywhere. It was a painfully slow and breath holding process. At one point she was sure Rachel was about to wake up, but the other girl was just mumbling in her sleep.

Harmony could barely sleep that night, thinking of how her roommates would look in the morning. The kool-aid would mix with bits of sweat in the night, staining both of the girls blue. Tomer would have pointed out that of course both of her roommates would know that it was her who was the culprit, but really Harmony didn't care about that. The sight of her two stupid roommates in the morning would be worth whatever.

[Rachel Kells]

Rachel was tired of this bull malarky. Yes she said bull malarky. One of her roommates, Harmony had been playing pranks on her and her other roommate, Aerina. She was so annoyed with the girl that she had been contemplating going to Dr. Neville about it. She doubted it would do any good though, and instead kept biting her tongue. Rachel knew that it would stop eventually. If it didn't, well then she would go to Dr. Neville. Earlier this week it had been alarm clocks, going off at random hours and times. Then it had been buttered floors. Slippery floors were not good for dancers. Rachel just prayed that whatever mean streak Harmony had, she would get it out of her system. And fast.

Instead of doing anything that night, Rachel had just done her piano, before heading to bed. She hadn't had any school work as the term didn't start until the morning, and she had finished reading, i.e. sparknoting, all of her summer reading. She was pretty exaghusted, as most of her day had been scheduled. She had no idea what would awake her in the morning, and instead was focused on getting a good nights sleep before heading to her classes tomorrow. She had no idea that her room was being invaded, and that her face was being sprinkled on. Instead she just pulled the blacket up closer and hugged her rabbit.

--time skip, 7/27/15, 5:00 a.m.--

Rachel groaned as she shut off her alarm. She hated this part of her day, the early mornings for Ballet. The thing was though, she wouldn't let herself get out of practice. Ballet was a major part of her life and if her dad ever started talking to her again, she wanted him to see that she hadn't been slacking off while he was absent. She stretched as she rose from her bed, headed to the hall sink and bathroom. To most this would seem crazy, to Rachel it was an everyday aspect of her life.

As she made her way down she stretched and turned the light on in her room. Her bed was still un made, but ffor the most part her room was tidy. It was well kept and there wasn't any dust. Leaving the door open behind her Rachel made her way down the walkway. The rooms at Hammel were spacious, but nothing compared to her apartment. She missed living with her mom and frowned as she thought of her busy mother.

Just as Rachel got to the sink with her tooth brush and tooth paste she looked up. At first she just thought the light was playing a tick on her as she turned it on. Then, well then, she screamed. A blood curdiling, high pitched, very noisy, and very loud scream. Her face was blue. Her face was... blue. HER FACE WAS BLUE. Rachel screamed again, but this time it was followed with, "HARMONY MULLER-BARTON."

Yes that was who had done it. They were the only ones who could teleport into Rachel's locked room. And at this moment Rachel was not happy. Not happy at all.

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Aerina was sound asleep when she heard the sudden hollers of one of her roommates. She startled away with a fright, her hearth thump-thump-thumping in her chest, and threw her head to and fro in search of the cause of the commotion. Aerina still hadn’t been at Hammel for a very long time, still only a month now, so oftentimes when she woke she thought she was still home in Mumbai. And with that frightful shout, Aerina was almost certain that it was her mother calling after her brother once again for one of his disrespectful antics. At least, that’s what she thought at first. A few blinks and processing the scenery in front of her(her dorn room) revealed that, no, she was not at home. Therefore that voice couldn’t be her mother.

But then who….?

The Indian girl had been surprised by the number of close calls she’d had living in the dorm so far. Accidents, she might call them. A few days ago she nearly slipped and fell upon exiting her room too quickly. Someone had apparently spilled something greasy there and neglected to clean it up. Then there was the thing with the alarm clocks! She didn’t know why anyone would want to do such a…thing, but it had caused Rina a noticeable amount of stress, specifically in the sleep deprivation area.

Anyway, today, she was hardly aware of what all the shouting was over, and hadn’t yet seen that she too was covered in blotchy blue stains all over her face, arms, and legs(never mind her clothes, but she’d mourn them later). Aerina stepped out into the common hall, rubbing at her sleepy eyes, her hair looking much like a bird’s nest as it usually did when she woke in the mornings, and peered around the corner where she hoped to find the source of the shout. “Rachel?” she said with a yawn, not quite seeing the blue all over her counterpart yet. “What’s going on? Why are you—?” It was in that moment that she noticed that Rachel’s skin was stained a very kool-aid blue, and her eyes went wide with shock. “Oh my—what happened, Rachel? Why are you….blue?” It was almost funny. And it would have been if Rachel was not so obviously upset. And if Aerina also hadn’t been a victim of Harmony’s terror.

[Harmony Muller-Barton]

Harmony woke up with a start at the sound of her name being yelled out. For a brief horror of an instant, she thought it was her mother. But then it dawned on her that the person yelling was her stupid roommate. Well they were both stupid. But it was the one who felt the need to wake up and stupid hours of the morning. Harmony was smiling before she even crawled out of bed.

She tried to look half asleep and hid her grin in a yawn. "What the heck are you yelling about now, prissy?" she yelled down the hall as she stepped out of her bedroom. She almost lost it at the sight of Rachel's face. It was amazing.

Harmony did crack up a bit when her other roommate also came out to see what the fuss was about. Aerina and Rachel looked like a pair of smurfs and Harmony really wished she had a camera going. She was going to have to start setting one up for pranks. This was just too great.

"Actually, you're looking a bit purple," Harmony suggested. Rachel's yelling must have made her face red in anger and it was mixing with the blue wonderfully. "Wait, what's the spoiled brat's name from that Willy Wonka movie? You could be her twin." Harmony managed to sound like she was suggesting something as normal as that Rachel's name started with the letter 'R'.

"Right Aerina?" she added, wondering with her other roommate was going to notice her coloring and trying not to fall over laughing at the pair of them.

[Rachel Kells]

Rachel could barely contain her anger as she looked at her face. She hardly noticed as her roommate Aerina came out, and looked over at the girl. She snapped at the girl’s questions. “Harmony. Harmony is the reason.” She started to try and wipe the blue off of her face. It wasn’t coming off. “Why don’t you look at yourself, and then ask the same question.” She felt like Harmony hated her, that she was nothing more than a nuisance to the girl. Rachel just wanted to be left alone, why did Harmony do this?

Rachel stormed towards the door that housed the perpetrator. She was going to have choice words with the girl, and wouldn’t stop until she had learned her lesson. She was fuming mad. This would be the first time that her roommate would see her full wrath and fury. She didn’t have to wait long, as the door opened as Rachel walked closer to the door.

When Harmony walked out and looked half asleep, she shook her head. “What do you think I am yelling about troublemaker?” She was holding her hands behind her back trying to keep her temper. She could tell this was her fault. She knew it.

Rachel watched Harmony’s eyes follow Aerina when she came out of her room. “You did this. You positively evil spawn of satan’s dog.” She was not mincing her words when it came to this. This was enough and Rachel was going to put a stop to it.

“Am I now? I wonder who could have come into my LOCKED room, and put SOMETHING on my face while I was SLEEPING that would ultimately turn my face BLUE?” Rachel was outright yelling at Harmony by with point. She was trying her best to hold her anger in, when the girl compared her to the blue person in Willy Wonka. She really was. Biting her tongue Rachel started to advance dangerously close to the other girl. “I wonder what you would look like purple. A black eye or two should help with that.” Rachel would normally advocate against violence, but this was too much. She knew the other girl wouldn’t stop. She had to make sure she did. One of the things her dad had taught her was how to defend herself.

Maybe it was time to try that method? Aerina better hold her back or there was going to be a brawl.