A New Student

[Alice Everwood]

Alice opened the large,wooden doors leading to the common room and stepped inside,it was empty and silent except for the crackling and the snaps that were coming from the roaring fire belonging to the fireplace. The common room was large and well spaced out,it had stone walls and floors,something you would expect to see in an old castle such as Orchid. In the center of the room sat a huge grey marble fireplace,it was the center piece of the room and had a roaring fire in it,the flames danced about happily creating a warm and cosy atmosphere in the room, something that Alice missed from her time in Everwood manor. Large tapestries,posters and leaflets were splashed across the room giving it the ounce of colour it need without making the room look like the carnival. The room was filled with comfortable looking chairs and there was a mahogany table to each chair,obviously there to give the students and impression that they had to do their schoolwork. Alice looked around the room,her vivid green eyes studied each and every detail of the room,after all this was going to be her new home until the year was over. She spotted an armchair to the left of the fireplace and headed over to it. Alice took her guitar bag off of her back and set her guitar on the floor, resting the neck of it on the side of the table, she brushed her long blonde hair behind her shoulders and took a seat. She was wearing a pale,sky blue vest-like top over a white t-shirt, a pair of skinny light blue denim jeans hung around her hips,a white studded belt was worn with them,just visible from under the blue vest. On her feet were a pair of school-like shoes, they were white leather pumps and had a strap that rested on the bridge of her foot with a sparkling silver buckle. She was wearing a blue sequin scarf around her neck that had been wrapped around her neck once and the two ends were left to hang over her front. Alice placed her left hand on the cold table and tapped her fingers as she thought about her few days she had experienced at Orchid already. her nails had been painted a majestic blue to match her outfit, it was in two colours as the nail polish was in sea blue but when light hit it,it turned into a rose pink. It didn't take her too long to snap out of her train of thought as she had only met one person at Orchid and that was Axel. Subconsciously she touched the silver key that dangled from her neck on a sterling sliver chain, it captured the light magnificently and sparkled merrily. Alice let go of it and lent back in the chair,waiting to see if anyone would arrive.

[Tamika Dombrovski]

Tamika opened the door of the common room and sauntered in with a small sigh. Recently she had decided to take the weight of the world upon her shoulders, and then Brad decided now would be a good time to act the part of jealous idiot. The common room was the perfect place to go to, she would just sit and read to chill her out. After the tripping incident when she met Jude, Tamika decided the wisest thing to do was to sit down before starting to read so she went to one of the sofas by the window and pulled her feet up beneath her, trying not to stab her legs with the point of her shoes. As she lifted her book she saw a girl sitting on a chair parallel to her.
May as well talk to someone, change of conversation...
"Hi hi hi there," she smiled.

[Alice Everwood]

Alice turned her head to see who talked to her, she heard them coming in but felt it was rude to watch them. Her vivid green eyes feel upon a girl, a pretty one at that, she had black hair and dark eyes, Alice felt a good vibe around her, she most definitely wasn't going to be the type where you each look at each other and instantly become sworn enemies. A huge smile swept over her face, she was relieved to hear another person's voice, as odd as it sounded it was true, for the past four days she had been thriving on Axel's voice and the teachers dull ones. "Hey, I'm Alice." she said happily.

[Tamika Dombrovski]

"Mika," she replied.
Finally, someone happy! she thought. Between Brad acting like a gimp, Josh just having general off moods and Wills recent bad luck she had had no one happy or slightly optomistic to talk to.
"New here I presume?" She asked, deciding obvious questions may be a good route to go at first. As she spoke her shoes dug into her, become increasingly irritating. Tamika pulled her feet within arms length and began unbuckling the shoes as she waited for Alice to answer.

[Alice Everwood]

Alice rolled her eyes and laughed, "Is it that obvious?"she smiled and nodded,"Only just arrived. I take it you're not new then?"she asked, Mika didn't exactly seem like a new student, she seemed perfectly at home here.


((What a short post, sorry*))

[Tamika Dombrovski]

"Compared to most people here, I'm probably still kind of new-ish I guess, well, not as new as Brad would be to them. If my memory serves me right it was late September I arrived here," she smiled, sliding the first of her shoes off then starting on the other one. "So what are your gifts?" She asked.

[Alice Everwood]

"Light and sometimes water if I wish."replied Alice, she wasn't going to tell her what else she could do, it was best if she could forget about it herself. "What are yours?"she asked inquisitively.

[Tamika Dombrovski]

"Fire, the Shining and unfortunately I'm also a Psychic Medium," Tamika returned. She looked up from her shoes and noticed as if on queue there was a few spirits sitting around the room, Anton stood out among them.
"Hey anton," she smiled, "Happy New Years mate."

[Alice Everwood]

Alice tilted her head to to the left, he blonde hair came tumbling over her shoulder. She watched Tamika skeptically and followed her gaze to where she was looking,Alice couldn't see anyone there, but Tamika could. She went speechless for a moment before she smiled and laughed,"Wow. That is really cool. All I can do is glow in the dark, I'm practically a night-light."

[Tamika Dombrovski]

"Seriously? I think that'd be brilliant. Seeing people everywhere and having people think you're crazy grows so old after so little time," she sighed, "Oh, no offence guys."
Tamika recieved glares for a couple of seconds before she spoke, "So whereabouts are you from?" She asked.

[Alice Everwood]

Alice laughed,"I'm practically my own glow stick at disco's"she joked, but that was also the reason why she refused to go to the formal every time Axel had begged her. "Good ol' London town!"she grinned before continuing, "My parents are American though. And you?"

[Tamika Dombrovski]

"I'm sure raves would be fun with you about," Tamika grinned. "I'm from Russia myself, Yekaterinburg and Moscow," she replied. She then started to think about how much of a tongue twister Yekaterinburg was, and imagined saying it after shots.

[Alice Everwood]

"Wow," began Alice astounded,"How the hell can you say that?" Alice began to mouth the word but failed miserably as he tongue couldn't handle it. "Do you play?"she asked changing the subject before making an ever bigger fool of herself as she beckoned towards her guitar.

[Tamika Dombrovski]

"Years of practice living there," she laughed. Tamika looked down at the guitar Alice had mentioned shook her head, "Tried once, failed horribly, stuck with singing in the end. You good?"

[Alice Everwood]

Her face lit up when she heard that word. "I LOVE singing. It's my all time favorite thing to do!"she noticed by the sound of her voice that she was getting over excited about the subject and calmed down. "I'm not one to judge, but I've had eleven and a half years of lessons and I seem to get the hang of it. I love the guitar, it means that I can write my own songs." she smiled.