THE OPULENT facade of the house in front of them dazzled from all the different corners the sun shone from.
The black and silver walkway welcomed them to the glass pivot doors.
"Go on", Dwayne laughed.
He was used to people's reactions.
Stasy and Courtney walked into the house.
The floor was immaculate to perfection, the chandeliers danced besides the skylights, which brought in a lovely wave of sunshine that glittered the marble stone floors.
Dwayne showed them the formal living room with black leathered H shaped chairs.
The glass tables sat diagonally.
Dwayne explained how certain people were only allowed in there on regular days.
They walked past two sets of casement windows leading to the warm room.
At the corner of the room there was a linear gas fire place clad with glass around.
There was a plazma TV hanging gracefully above three flower pots.
This caught Courtney's eye.
As they climbed the stairs they were cautious because one could easily fall through the glass.
There was a small bar area, the floating shelves each with a fair share of alcohol.
"So we will be living here? ", Courtney asked.
"Psh on the other side of the school that's where", Wayne laughed.
"SO NOW YOU CAN pick your rooms, we are on our way back to the gate", Dwayne told them.
Stasy whipped her head back staring at him intently "what if someone came when we were here".
"There would be an animal that'll pop up in the middle of road, it'll buy enough time for us to get back to the gate".
Stasy and Courtney shared the same rueful expression as they watched Dwayne and Wayne walk away.
As the walked down the pavement they read the golden table.
"Great the rooms end at fifty", Courtney piqued.
He enjoyed what ever happened to him, he could now whine, he could now be sarcastic and he could finally be normal, he was happy now that's all that mattered.
LINDON SAT OK THE lower part of the bunk bed. "No!".
"Please Linds just one year we need a roommate stop being you for a minute".
"No".
Amara held two fingers up "Two years Linds we really need one".
"Why?," he asked.
"I'm bored and I need company I'm tired of you", she whined.
"I brought you a puppy what more do you want".
Before Amara could reply there was a firm knock on the door.
"Come in", Amara yelled before Lindon could even give his infamous 'go away'.
The door opened then closed.
The boy stood with a duffle bag hanging on his broad shoulders, a suitcase in his left hand.
He had huge warm and welcoming grey eyes with an intense gaze.
Black hair coupled, with grey strands, dyed white at the ends graced his head.
A silver Rolex watch dangled lovelily against his wrist along with two other silver bracelets.
His diamond studs glittered with his chain, he wore an oversized hoodie, with tight grey ripped jeans paired with grey Nike shoes "Hello", he said.
Lindon and Amara stared at him in awe the gods just have to give him everything.
Amara cleared her throat "I'm Amara Star".
He dropped his duffle bag on the nearest bed and walked over to her.
"It's a pleasure to meet you, I'm Julian, Julian Scratch", he shook her hand staring deep into her eyes.
He looked away from her and walked pompously towards Lindon "Julian Scratch", he raised his fist.
Lindon smirked molding his hand into a fist and connecting their fists "Lindon Morningstar".
Julian gave him a half smile "It's a pleasure Morningstar".
Julian walked to the bed he had left his bag on and started unpacking his bags.
'Looks like we got a roommate', Amara thought.
"COURTNEY LET'S TRY that one", Stasy pointed to a room with the number thirty three emblazoned on the door.
"No definetly not, let's go to room forty", re replied pacing further from the room.
"Why? ", Stasy asked throwing her hands up and running after him.
"You have issues", she smacked his shoulder.
When they got to the forties Stasy prayed that nothing would be weird about the people in the room.
Crossings her fingers she trailed behind Courtney, he knocked three times and when there was no response he pulled the door open.
Inside sat two black coffins shining like a perble in the sun.
Courtney gasped taking three steps back and slyly closing the door.
He looked at Stasy who just shrugged.
'everything has to be weird here', Courtney thought.
They walked to the next room "forty one", Courtney read.
Stasy walked to the door and knocked.
"Come in", a female voice said in between laughs.
Stasy opened it and walked in.
"hello".
There were three people in the room, two boys and one girl. Her eyes locked on the first boy nearest to the door.
He was staring right back at her, his grey eyes were strongly intimidating.
Finally finally he said "hi".
"My names Stasy", she told the group.
She greeted them all, she knew that one boy was named Lindon and the other Julian and what looked to be her new best friend was Amara.
"It's a pleasure to have you here".
Stasy thanked Amara.
Amara offered her to take a seat on the bed.
Enticed Stasy walked over to the bed and sat down.
"Dont sit on my dog", Amara said.
Stasy looked at the bed and next to the fluffy white pillow laid a fluffy white puppy.
"OH", Stasy ran her hands in the fur and waited for Courtney to enter.
When Courtney did enter Lindon abruptly stood up eyeing Courtney from head to toe.
"No, I'm sorry there's no room left ",Lindon said.
Courtney looked around there were four people in the room including Stasy and four extra beds.
Amara palmed her face and frantically screamed a "why?!".
"His like the maliks".
"Oh", Amara sighed.
Courtney raised his hands in mock surrender he wasn't ready to stay where he was not welcome.
He looked at Stasy.
Stasy got up from the bed "I'm going with him" and
"Aw", Amara pulled her bottom lip out and grabbed Stasy's hand.
Lindon had already jeopardized the girl time she had planned.
"Linds please!! she even has her hair plaited back like mine".
After ten more minutes of begging. Stasy and Courtney were finished unpacking, Lindon had gone for a walk with 'bailey' Amara's dog, Julian was sleeping, Amara and Stasy were talking whilst Courtney thought of how his parents knew about this place.
If they knew why didn't they tell him?
They just had to wait for a time when he was most unprepared.
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