We were all gathered in something like a hotel lobby, everybody scattered looking for allies or people they can depend on I stayed still and ignored whoever tried to get to be 'friends' with me or build a 'friendly' relationship. So I just laid my body flickering to stay up at the dark couches scattered around next to the visible giant cafeteria. Even though we weren't allowed to go there yet I could smell a slightly salty odor- So we were either gonna eat seafood for breakfast or the employees were on their lunch break. The marble floor was cold making everybody who took out their shoes regret it instantly most putting them back on quickly while some brave souls try to tough it out.
"When are we gonna go to the rooms"
In perfect timing, the same woman I saw with the lipstick on the train came from the back door, with a loki smile on her face her eyes were smooshed close not showing anything other than her eyelashes. The room was already dead-quiet at her appearance, everybody fully focused on her she sweated.
"For Ro-oom 3-15: Ren, Sage, Hazel"
As soon as the names were announced I stood up, still confused as to why there was a girl in our dorm. Sage and I walked up first. Sage was quite skinny and had big round glasses, his eyes were quite special with glowing lime green and short red hair becoming a weird mixture. His jaw was quite chiseled, unlike his body.
After us a girl with a tan walked up, Her eyes were piercing and cold and plum pink making me surprised her name wasn't plum or something. She had hazelnut hair which was weirdly fitting with the plum-pink eyes. There was not much to say about her not like she had any distinct features other than her tan.
After that, The Lipstick women walked us off the place, through a garden filled with flowers and chirping birds I was extremely careful as to not touch the grass since this place was beautiful bushes shaped into stars, birds, towers, moons, and a lot more. Fireflies lighted our way encouraging me to look around everywhere from blue to red all types of little lights were around the place, a breathtaking scenery. After the bushes was a sunflower field with them looking at us instead of the sun They were gigantic way bigger than your average one they looked down at us like they were alive and breathing with us.
"Beautiful," Sage said, holding onto his blue backpack. "I wish I could take some pictures for my family"
"Count me in," I said as I took 2 portable cameras out of my backpack, thanks to my stingy mom she insisted I take cameras to bring back some memories even though I told her I can use my phone to do it, but she immediately refused and said "The old fashioned way is better" I have no idea why she gave me 2 of them but this was the perfect time I guess. After a little breather
"Catch"
I slowly threw it upwards towards Sage as he grabbed it with no problem I smiled. "You still have to give it back to me after you take out the photos" I put out a thumb of good signs.
"Will do."
Hazel mumbled through the way as we took pictures like madmen, from our weird faces to the cool sky full of fireflies. Or the little river running through the place splashing at the corners, we took a picture of almost anything we could find even though we kept our distance. As to not annoy each other that much, we just got acquainted and thanks to him being like me he knew not to immediately go for friends. Sage seemed to think like me which was pretty cool- Other than our room The first nights at the dorms were gonna be loud, some people would gather for uno some would probably throw parties, and maybe some would do the deed. A lot happens on the first nights.
"Were here kids"
At this point we had gone past 4 buildings, each bigger than the one before but the fifth one was huge. It was 1/3 of a skyscraper decorated with black color and a bodyguard waiting on the front when the other ones were colored only white and looked more like a hotel room. Spotlights and a red carpet. I couldn't even imagine the other buildings would they have a dragon guarding them. Imagine if fire came out of the top
As we walked through the red carpet all three of us puffed our chests proudly, this was a celebrity thing and we were gonna enjoy it. That was undoubted but the red carpet made somebody feel "Powerful" almost all of my exhaustion was gone when I took a step over that crazy carpet: It simply felt amazing. With high hopes and swinging arms, we waited at the door.
"Um, it's room 315: Sage, Ran, Hazle," The lipstick girl said to the bodyguard.
After checking his tablet for a bit the giant man made of pure muscle opened the doors without having to even touch the door... An automatic door.
But I would like to think he opened it with the power of his flexing.
...
After that, we immediately skipped the lobby thanks to how tired we were, other than the power of the red carpet I was running out of energy. And our room was quite far up being on floor 9 so it meant I was still gonna be standing up for a while, but looking around at the other kids I was not the only one feeling that. After taking back my camera from Sage and relocating them in my backpack I was ready to crash onto my bed.
My arms were soggy like leftover noodles, and my legs were wobbling like jelly. And my head was ready to be a meteor.
"You have reached floor 9"
As soon as we hear that sign we took our keys from the lipstick girl and rushed into our rooms, after scouring around the room plates we found room 315 exactly and quickly read out the keycards pushing us into the room.
It was a small apartment with 3 bedrooms and a kitchen at the entrance. And 1 living room.
But not caring about that we carried our luggage to the room we were closest to and slept like babies.