After our heated girl talk between Geneva, Margaret, and even Scarlet, it was time for Geneva to head to work and certainly time for the rest of us to check back on the moving situation. Apparently, Geneva receives many offers for as a model for photoshoots after her fame in the fan favorite television show, The Vampire Journals. So aside from barely attending school and having some time to design her own clothes, she's mostly running across metropolitan Orion between gigs.
Now, the moving situation was certainly I wanted nothing to do with, but if the movers were anything Hayden had said, then they'd do their job properly with or without me checking up on them or not. Since the diner was certainly walkable distance from our destination, we had decided to walk off our lunch and took a casual walk next to the busy streets. The exact walk wasn't too far from where the school is located and gave Scarlet plenty of time to look around, in the end, we arrived in the span of fewer than twenty minutes.
"Ambrosia Hall Residence," I announced aloud as we approached our grand building that stood tall in the center of Valentino campus grounds.
As I recall, there are five other residences that spread across the campus, not to mention the grad student residences that were outside of the main campus. Ambrosia Hall was notably the tallest structure on Valentino grounds, known for their luxurious services and extra snobbiness. How I actually managed to draw my residence lottery to this particular hall was certainly pure blind chance, that's for sure.
"Ugh, I'd imagine moving would be extra annoying for the movers if I lived anywhere else, huh?" I asked rhetorically to Margaret while gesturing us to go inside the building.
"Most students live in Lauder Hall and Emery Hall, both buildings are all the way in the northeastern corner of the campus, far off from where every other facility is located. I'd say moving an entire unit across the campus is a lot more painful than just annoying if I were you, Sienna," she added as she guided Scarlet inside the building, who had been closely paying attention and following our conversation the best she could.
"I figured, which is why I put those two as my last choice," I chuckled, and pressed for the elevator to come down.
"Just curious, which residence was your first choice?"
"Well, I actually had placed Vista Hall as my first choice because it was closer to the main intersections, and therefore easier for me to get to my part-time jobs. But as you know, Vista Hall only has about twenty-five floors and it's apparently one of the bigger residences in size, but not in population," I explained.
"Right, by the time the draw started, it was already probably full," Margaret said as the elevator door opened.
"My second choice was Walton Hall," I said casually as I walked into the elevator. Margaret and Scarlet followed in response, and once they had safety gotten inside, I pressed the twelfth-floor button. It will probably be the last time I'll press that floor, I thought.
"But Walton Hall is mostly for students who are involved in extra-curricular activities, like clubs and societies?" she asked.
"Yeah, and I'm not really in any of those, I tried to join a club or whatever but apparently to get into most clubs, you need to know someone or your family is well known around here," I shrugged as the elevator door finally closed shut, "it wasn't a huge loss, Walton Hall wasn't in a convenient location anyways."
"That leaves us with Meade Hall, did you put that at the bottom of your list since you're not in any sort of sorority?" Margaret inquired further.
"Actually, no, I believe the order was Vista, Walton, Meade, Ambrosia, Emery, and Lauder," I said looking up to recollect my original residence preferences."
"That's so weird, normally they don't put scholarship students in Ambrosia, you'd think they'd just stick you in Emery or Lauder Hall instead."
"Someone in the accommodations department told me that since my both Emery and Lauder Halls didn't have two bedroom units, so they thought Ambrosia Hall was a better fit," I explained.
The elevator finally made a ding sound to signal that we have arrived on our floor. Margaret, Scarlet, and I all stepped out of the elevator and walked down the hall to see busy workers in uniforms bustling near our area. As we approached closer, we realized that they were moving boxes of items from inside of our unit to the service elevator located on the side at the end of the hallway.
"Huh, didn't know that thing actually worked," I crossed my arms together.
"Excuse me, we're the residents of this unit, are we still allowed to go in at this point?" Margaret asked as she approached the workers. Scarlet, on the other hand, had stayed behind me, peeking occasionally at the strangers that were moving our belongings around.
"We're actually almost done moving most of the larger items already since both of the units are furnished, you can still come inside, but I wouldn't advise it since it is a bit dusty with all the moving around," one of the workers said.
"I guess we should wait downstairs?" I suggested, now leaning against the wall with my arms still crossed together.
"Well, we can't wait for much longer, I took Scarlet out of school for an early lunch, but she actually has to go back to school in less than half an hour," Margaret explained.
"I can wait here, just take her back to school now, we don't want her to be late," I implied.
"You don't have to wait here, miss," the same worker responded kindly as he passed a small envelope to Margaret, "Mr. Whitehall has asked us to give you these, he says it's the apartment keys."
Margaret walks back to us and hands over the envelope that hadn't even been sealed. I hastily opened the package's content to reveal three copies of one set of keys.
"Two-one-zero-three," I read aloud the engravings on the set of keys, picking out each of them to make sure they were exact replicas.
Before I can finish inspecting, there was another object that hid below the set of keys I received. It was a small key fob which had no engravings or instructions on it. Confused, I turned to look at the worker again, who had just been carrying a box out of our old apartment.
"Sir, what is this for?" I asked curiously.
"Mr. Whitehall said to use this in the elevator, it'll take you to a place where you can wait for your unit to be complete. He said he will meet you there. As for the moving, we will call you once we are done, it should only be a couple more hours at this point," the man said as he dropped the box inside the service elevator.
"Okay, thanks for the help," I thanked the worker, and turned back to Margaret, "it looks like I got it handled here, so you both should avoid being late and start heading back."
I handed her two of the three keys to the apartment, as Scarlet will be needing one in case there is an emergency.
"Sure thing, I'll probably be out doing errands while Scarlet is in school but I'll be back to pick her up and we'll meet you back at the new apartment," Margaret responded as she smiled, taking the two keys I gave her, and placing one key in Scarlet's key pouch within her backpack.
"Yay! Back to school!" Scarlet jumped joyfully, "bye Senna, see you later!"
"I'll see you later," I smiled, and waved both of them goodbye.
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A/N: Hey! the Author's Thought is only 500 characters so I felt the need to ask here. Are my readers okay with mature subjects like violence and sexual scenes? I know I can write the story without any, but I want to know if this might be something my readers will be interested in :) I can separate the mature scenes from the regular chapters and add a [MATURE] next to the chapter update if you are uncomfortable, but I'll change the rating appropriately since there are younger readers. And the contents won't be too crazy, just like any erotica book you can pick up from a bookstore. Comment and let me know if this is something you're interested in, this is the first time I am trying something like this as a writer so it's more of a challenge for me~!