Meeting the other Half of the House (Ethan)

[alexis]

Alexis was a hyper and energetic girl. Always on the move, always on the run. She could never sit still for more then a few second at a time. Which was probably why she never got her homework done and was nearly never seen in the dorms. She was always running around, she was either at school, at work, or at her mothers and grandmothers bakery helping them out as a second part time job. All in all, she was never one to be still. Which meant she had never been ‘home’ to meet her roommate before.

Today although was different, it was dorm clean out day and they had to have there dorm rooms all spick span and clean when the teachers came around to inspect. Being in a school with such high standards was tough, she had forgotten until she morning when her cell phone went off with a calendar reminder to tell her to get her butt in gear and clean up her room. She had freaked out, which was just an hour before, and was still cleaning up her very messy bedroom right then.

Alexis walks out into the common room setting a basket of clothing that needed to be washed out near the doorway she started to walk back over to her bedroom when she tripped over the corner of the end table. She went falling and crashing into a box of school supplies on the floor and rolled off into the couch making very loud crashing noises as she went around she lay there, eyes wide as her legs dangled above her head and the long skirts of her dress fell around her face hiding it from view. She just sat there, in shock. She was lucky to be wearing shorts under her dress today.

The crash would have been easily heard through the entire Dorm room.

[ETHAN CAMPBELL]

Ethan was awfully shocked that he hadn't ever met his room mate. Shouldn't he have met him or her by now? Although he was pretty new he'd been living there nearly two weeks and he hadn't heard a word from the other half of the house. In fact, he almost doubted his room mate existed except for sometimes seeing a light turn off at night or a bowl of cereal left in the kitchen sink in the morning.

Ethan wondered if he'd ever meet the mysterious room mate that shared the apartment-styled dorm with him. Was it a girl or a boy? Could be either really. However, since he hadn't met them Ethan couldn't have a problem with them and he didn't have to go through the awkward moment of hating the person you live with. So it weren't half bad in that way.

It was inspection day and that meant he needed to kick his butt into high gear. He'd barely unpacked his suitcase since getting there and his dirty clothes were spread all over the floor like a tornadoe had swept through. He still had boxes piled in the corner with most of his stuff packed except for the important necessities. Ethan grabbed a handful of clothes off the floor and put them into a large duffle bag and did that until he could see the carpet. Well cleaning wasn't too difficult when you hadn't much to clean with all his stuff still boxed up.

"There - now that's awll-done," he said proud of his cleaning efforts when the room was all spick-an'-span. He slung the huge bag over his shoulder and hit the lights to head to the laundry room. As he hit the top of the stairs and closed his door he heard a loud CRASH-BANG from downstairs. "What in the Sam Hill...!?"

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[alexis]

Alexis felt her head spinning, and wasn’t quiet sure what had occurred to place her in such an awkward position for several minutes. She slowly placed her legs back on the ground then pushed her dress skirts down upon them as she stared up at the ceiling. She wanted to get up, but she was quiet worried about the mess she might have made. That was when she realized that she had done and it came across her that it was quiet funny. She was always clumsy but usually not this much.

She sits up, and starts in a tiny fit of giggles. She could barely hear someone else talking, but she looked toward the room that her room mate occupied believing the noise to come in that direction she giggles out,” H…hello? Anyone in there?” she asks still having fits of giggles she continues to sit unaware that all around her is more of a mess then before, the box of school supplies splatter across the ground. Erasers, pencils, notebooks and a variety of other things in a cluster on and around her on the floor.

Out of curiosity she stands up, brushing herself off pencils and erasers falling from her leg and arms. She frown a tiny bit at the mess, then giggles a tiny bit again at herself. She kneels down quickly picking up the box which was luckily still in one piece and started to throw everything back into it before pushing it aside and venturing to where she had heard the male voice coming from. She knew it was a co-ed dorm but again, had never met her roomy. As she got to the doorway and softly knocked on the wooden frame she thinks about how curious it will be if it is truly a male, and wondering who exactly it is.