A New Home (Candence and Colton)

[Riana Skye]

After a final good-bye with her family, Riana made her way to what would be her new home. Room 214 in the Co-Ed Dorm. As she lugged her duffel bag full of possessions, Riana felt both sad and nervous. Not only was this the farthest she had ever been from home, but it was the first time she would be spending extended time away from her family. While Riana wasn't crying, her eyes were a little glossy. She felt alone.

Not to say Riana wasn't excited. Here she would have more freedom than she had at home. Plus she could learn more about being a meta-something. While Riana was feeling a bit scared, she also felt a lot of hope.

One thing she hoped to have was cool roommates. People she would get along with and trust. A good sense of humour wouldn't be bad either. Riana figured that if she got along well with her roommates, it would make it easier to make other friends as well.

As she neared Room 214, Riana felt butterflies dancing in her stomach. What if they were busy? Worse, what if they didn't like her? Giving herself a small shake, Riana took a deep breathe. She managed to kill most of the butterflies, but a few remained. Room 214, here I come!

Riana walked into the room that would hopefully be her new home.

[Candence Waterson]

Homework, finals, grades to keep up... Candence would have much rather been doing something more active in the gym or workout room. With a sigh, she flipped to the next page of her school book from where she lay sprawled out on the couch in the room's common area.

Not to mention she'd be having another roommate showing up. She'd been enjoying just having one roommate, the kid who could speak a bazillion different languages. One roommate kept things simple. When she was in her bedroom, things were quiet, because no one was jabbering in the living room. Why? Because there were no other roommates for him to jabber at. Now, though, there'd be another person, and the noise level would likely go up because of it. So long as they didn't get to loud...

She glanced up as she heard something outside the door. Welp, someone was here anyway. She adjusted her gloves and hoodie, making sure they were covering as much skin as possible, as the new roommate walked in. At least it was another girl...

"Hey," Candence called, not offering to get up immediately. "You the new kid?"

[Colton Bryan]

Colton was sitting in his room using the internet wearing a light blue t-shirt and black sweatpants. when he heard the door to the dorm open and he heard Candence start talking to someone. Wondering what was going on he stood up and walked towards the door to his room and opened it and walked out into the main room of the dorm.

He came and saw the girl who he had never seen before and said in Arabic, "Hello, are you a friend of Candence?" He finished looking between the two girls not realizing he was speaking in another language.

[Riana Skye]

Riana walked into the room to see a girl sprawled on a couch and studying or something. The scene reminded Riana she would have a tough time with exams because of her late move, and she hadn't exactly been getting good marks at her old school either. Oh well.

Eyeing who was probably her new roommate, Riana noticed a couple things. One was that the girl seemed to be pretty close to Riana's age. That was a plus. The other thing Riana noticed was that the other girl dressed a bit differently. The gloves, the sweater, ot wasn't cold outside. Riana didn't judge the other girl, but she wanted to ask a few questions. The main one being, 'what kind of power makes you cold all the time?'

Riana didn't say that out loud, instead she answered, "Yup. I'm the new girl". Smiling brightly she added, "Riana. What's your name?"

Riana dropped her bag onto the floor. Her eyes darted around, looking at the doors to the rooms and wondering which one she'd get. Suddenly the door Riana was looking at opened, and a guy walked out. Riana was just about to offer a greeting to who she guessed was another roommate, but then the dude started to speak in some sort of weird language. Riana had no idea what he was saying, and the whole thing caught her off guard. Letting out a nervous laugh, all she mamaged was "Uhhh..."

[Candence Waterson]

The new girl seemed to be scrutinizing Candence's get-up, which wasn't anything particularly new, really. The only time she seemed to blend in was in the fall and winter. Oh well. She wasn't going to explain it-- people tended to get jumpy when they found out she could accidentally put them to sleep.

Aaand the new girl's name was Riana. Candence nodded. "Candence. You can--" she cut herself off as Colton emerged. Eh, she could tell Riana which rooms were already occupied in a moment. She wasn't in any sort of hurry, anyway.

Colton jabbered out something in some foreign language Candence couldn't place. Were she in the habit of it, Candence would have laughed at the ridiculousness of the three of them. Herself, dressed as if it were chilly outside, Colton, mixing up his languages, and Riana's expression... Okay, Candence did have to grin after all. The poor newbie probably thought they were crazy. Whose brilliant idea was it to stick a bunch of newbies in with her?

"You're doing it again, Cole," Candence said aloud, swinging her legs off the couch as she did so she could sit up. "Riana, Colton. Don't worry about it-- he does that." She smirked. "You'll find weirder than that around here, too. Welcome to the funny farm."

[Colton Bryan]

Colton pushed his glasses up in annoyance as he realized he was speaking in a language other than English again. "Sorry, I've got a problem with making sure to speak in the language I want when talking to people. Anyway, as I was attempting to say my name is Colton and I was wondering if you were Candence's friend but from how she was talking I assume you're our new roommate." He said quickly towards the new girl who had dropped her bag to the floor.

[Riana Skye]

Riana smiled, it seemed as though she had moved from one farm to the other. As for the weird part, Riana had already figured that in a boarding school filled with child meta-whatevers, things would get a little weird. Riana was just glad the other girl offered her name and an explanation.

The dude gave a look of annoyance, and Riana felt a little bad she didn't understand him. Then he introduced himself in English, and Riana responded with "Hi Colton. Yeah, I'm your new roommate. I hope we can be friends, unless one of you snores. That's a total deal-breaker". Of course Riana was joking about the last part. She wanted to make a good impression on her roommates.

After another glance around, Riana realized there was four rooms, but only three students accounted for so far. "Hay", she piped up, "Who's the fourth?"

[Candence Waterson]

She'd gotten the girl to smile. Candence considered her job of welcoming the newbie complete. Quirking a smile, she leaned back on the couch and crossed her arms behind her head, debating whether or not she wanted to get some more studying in or not. Pro'lly better to wait until the newbie got settled in. Less distractions that way.

"Fourth what?" she inquired, somewhat confused as Riana put the question forward. However, a moment later she realized that Riana was looking at the room doors. Roommates. Right. "There isn't a fourth roommate. The fourth room is currently occupied by a ghost."

She joked about the ghost bit with a perfectly straight, mildly bored expression. The newbie could take the comment as literally as she wanted, Candence didn't really mind.

[Colton Bryan]

Colton had quirked his head at Riana's comment about snoring before he said, "I don't know about Candence, but I don't snore at all." He then turned his head towards Candence and listened when she began to speak. "I think she's trying to say that we don't have another roommate which to my knowledge we don't,", he said to Riana before adding, "Anyway it's nice to meet you and I hope we become fast friends here." 

[Riana Skye]

"Well its a good thing I packed my Ghostbusters gear", Riana joked. She didn't believe in ghosts. "Nice meeting you both".

Now that the intial introductions were done, Riana began settling herself in. She once again lifted up her duffel bag. Riana already knew which room was Colton's, so she randomly picked one of the three rooms left. As Riana carried her bag into the room she picked, Riana realized that she had just entered Candence's room. Oops! I hooe she doesn't mind. Riana left Candence's room and flashed her roommate an apologetic smile. Then she entered one of the unoccupied rooms and tossed her bag on to her new bed.

As far as first impressions went, Riana thought her roommates were cool. Colton didn't have much of a sense of humour, it seemed that he took everything literally, but Riana figured that they would get along. She thought that Candence either didn't like Riana or was shy, but Riana hoped the other girl would open up more to Riana as time went by.

Riana unzipped her bag and stared at it's contents. Suddenly unpacking her possessions didn't seem too exciting anymore. Riana shrugged, she was in no hurry. Riana turned back toward the doorway that led to the main room. She hoped her roommates hadn't been too busy before she arrived.

Riana desperately wanted to ask them what their powers were. The only thing that stopped her was a lecture she had received on the trip to Hammel. Her parents had said that some not all students were proud of their powers. Some had embarrassing powers that they didn't want to talk about. The powers of other students had caused great tragedies. Powers could be a sensitive issue, so Riana couldn't ask.

Riana rolled her eyes as she walked through the doorway into the main room. Alone for less than an hour and already her parents' voices were echoing in her ears. The worst part was that she was already starting to kind of miss them.

"So what do you guys do here? Like, for fun?"

[Candence Waterson]

Candence watched as Riana raised her bag and strode off to presumably get unpacked. Well that was fine with her. Meant the newbie felt comfortable, right? So she'd definitely done her job right. She gave an inward smirk when Riana stumbled upon Candence's room, but didn't mind or give any sign of minding. It wasn't like she had anything illegal or whatever in there that people shouldn't see.

She found her place in her book again and began reading, assuming that Riana wouldn't emerge for a little while. However, when she did emerge again, asking a question as she did, Candence lowered her book. Had she just addressed one of them, singular, she probably would have kept reading. Though she supposed that could've been considered rude, come to think of it.

However, Riana had addressed both of them, and so she pulled her attention from her book, which wasn't really all that hard, since the book wasn't particularly interesting to her, and threw out a response.

"There's a gym downstairs." She shrugged. "Don't have a lot of free time." Of course, that wasn't completely true for every student. Candence kept herself exceptionally busy with clubs, and the dance team, and homework, and gymnastics practice. She glanced at Colton. "He probably has a better answer for you than I do about that sort've thing."

[Colton Bryan]

Colton scratched his chin as he thought of an answer for Riana's question before he said, "Well before I came to the dorm I found a room with a television and a pool table. I think we can go off school grounds if we get permission if I remember the rules correctly." He walked towards a window that showed the school grounds he then finished while waving his hand towards the grounds, "And I think we can go anywhere inside the institute's outer walls." Unfortunately while he walked towards the window Colton had started talking in Turkish without realizing it.

[Riana Skye]

Candence offered a gym, but Riana didn't lift weights and she perferred to run outside. Then Riana's roommate expressed her lack of free time and deferred Riana to Colton. Colton paused for a second, his taking time to think giving Riana a chance to ask Candence, "Why don't you have much free time?"

Colton had a few good ideas. Riana wondered what there was to do off the school grounds. She didn't have an opportunity to ask however, as Colton continued his explanation. The problem was he started speaking in that strange language again. Whatever he said was lost tk Riana. Since she was feeling too shy to point out the language switch, Riana nodded her head and gave Colton a soft smile. Then she strained her eyes to see whatever he was waving to outside.

[Candence Waterson]

Candence shrugged in answer to Riana's question. "I keep busy. I'm on the dance team, so that takes a lot of practice, and I'm a gymnast. And I take my studies seriously." Of course she took her studies seriously. If she didn't, she wouldn't learn how to get them under control one of these days. Which was the whole point of coming to the nut-house school.

She glanced at Colton as he switched languages, assuming Riana would alert him to his mistake. However, when she decided to play it nice, she took it upon herself. "Check your language, Cole," she said, somewhat absently. She'd gotten used to pointing out when he slipped up language-wise. How else was he going to learn, after all, if no one told him when he started getting it wrong? That was her philosophy anyway.

[Colton Bryan]

"Thanks Candence." Colton said quickly to her before turning back to Riana and said, "Sorry about that Riana sometimes I can't control what language I talk in. Anyway as I was saying we can go anywhere on school grounds. And I think I heard talk about a lake being somewhere near the town. I also saw a large field on the way to our dorm, and I think we can see it from outside our window." As he finished speaking Colton had begun to wonder about Riana's power and as he thought more about it he realized that he could tell her a little bit more about himself if only to seem friendlier.