Chapter 2: Are You Aware This Is Hell

(Ember's POV)

"I really really hope you're not OCD or a neat freak.", he says to me and I start laughing

"OCD, neat freak me, never, I used to have to be bribed to clean up my room with gummy worms or gummy bears by my mom.", I tell him and he starts to laugh.

"Stop laughing at me!", I exclaim and he just shakes his head.

"Sorry you're just so-.", Blake gets cut off by somebody speaking up.

"Different.", the person said I turned around ready to deck the person in the face but, I stopped myself before I did so.

"Jesus Christ man, don't do that tou almost got the day lights knocked out of you.", I say and he let's out a nervous laugh.

"So, I'm guessing you're my roommate now.", he says and I nod.

"Thanks for the help Blake, I really appreciated it and at least now I know somebody that's okay-ish.", I say as I turn around to look at him.

"Okay-ish?", he asks and raises an eyebrow and I roll my eyes.

"Okay okay, you're an okay person to hang out with.", I say patting him on the shoulder.

"I'll take it.", he says and walks away.

"Thanks again Blake.", I yell but he's already gone.

"So, roommate, do you have a name or something you preferred to be called?", I ask him and I internally smack myself in the face.

"Um yeah, I have a name.", he says motioning for me to come inside.

"So, what's your name?", I ask him.

"Dylan Steele, you can call me Dill for short.", he says and stretches his hand out.

"I'm gonna call you dill pickle, my name is Ember Jones, nice to meet ya dill pickle.", I say and he chuckles a little.

I turn and start unpacking.

"I have a few ground rules, okay?", I ask him and he nods.

"Okay, no going through my things without permission, keep your hands to yourself, and since I've read plenty of highschool stories and somewhat understand you horny teenage boys stay the hell out of my underwear drawer, you got it?", I ask and he nods again.

"Good, also I have insomnia so sorry if I end up staying up late at night or if I don't go to sleep, I also get nightmares but I only really get them if I fall a sleep and sometimes I don't get them, so we should be good.", I say to him pulling out my stuffed animal my mom had bought me for my ninth birthday, it's a stitch stuffed animal.

"You sle-", he goes to say but I cut him off.

"Don't judge me, I don't really have a person to talk to or somebody that makes me feel comfy, I mean I used to have this cat his name was Arial, but he died he got ran over.", I say sitting down on my bed and going through my things so I could put them away at least somewhat neat.

"Sorry for your loss.", he says and I just look at him.

"Dude it's fine, it was kinda my fault anyways I accidentally left the door open.", I say and giggle a little.

"Welp, it was nice talking to you and all but I gotta put this stuff up at least half neat so.....", I trail off pulling my bluetooth earbuds out of my pocket and connecting them to my phone, I turn my Pandora on and turn the music up all the way.

After an hour or so I'm finally finished a plopped down on my bed taking my earbuds out turning them off and plugging my phone into its charger.

"So, what kind of music do you listen to?", Dylan asked I rolled over and looked at him.

"Rock, mainly Nickleback and Creed I'll rarely listen to ACDC. ", I tell him and he nods.

"What about you, what kinda music do you listen to?", I ask him and he shrugs.

"I don't really listen to any music.", he says and I froze in my spot.

"You did not just tell m-", I go to say but I'm interrupted

"Oh, but I did.", he says and I sit up grab my phone connect my earbuds put a new rubber piece on on give it to him and put in some music.

"Listen to it.", I tell him as I put my earbud in.

After a while it started to get dark outside and Dylan seemed to be getting tired.

"Hand me my earbud and go to sleep.", I tell him and he nods and hands me my earbud. I go to get up to change and so does he. I put on a not so tight but not so lose tank top with nighttime shorts and go back to my bed.

"How in the world do you seem so comfortable around guys?", he asked, I know what he was asking but I pretended to play stupid.

"What do you mean?", I asked and he looks over at me.

"Like you can legit live with a guy that you don't know and change in front of him with no problems.", he said and I stare blankly for a few moments remembering bad memories.

"I prefer not to talk about. Goodnight Dylan, sweet dreams.", I say and roll over on my bed facing the wall.

After a long long while I roll over and check my phone, 4:50 AM.

I hate my life, I think to myself as I get up and get my clothes together for the day and bathroom things. I walk down the hall into the Girls bathroom and go to the showers and take one.

After stand underneath the cold water for 30 minutes I decide to start actually taking a shower.

30 minutes later I hear somebody walk into the bathroom. What the hell, I think to myself as I finish, turn the shower off, wrap myself in a towel and walk out.

"Hey.", I say to the girl standing in front of me. She jumps and spins around her tense body relaxes

"Jesus Christ.", she whisper yelled. I look around and shake my head.

"Nope, no Jesus Christ, just me.", I say to her and she rolls her eyes.

"So anyways, I'm Ember Jones, man I'm saying that a hell of a lot.", I say and she lightly laughs.

"I'm Yasmine Keller, nice to meet ya.", she says sticking her hand out.

"So, if you don't mind me asking, did you like dye your hair or is it just natural?", she asks, I motion for her to give me a minute.

"Stay where you are.", I say as I start to put my clothes on. After I put my clothes I walk back over to her.

"Okay, now that I'm more comfortable, it's nautrally white and yes my eyes are nautrally this color.", I tell her and she looks at me with amazement.

"Wow, that's so freaking cool.", she says and I nod. We start to walk out of the bathrooms.

"So, what are doing up so early?", I ask and she looks at me and taps her head.

"Nightmares.", she says and I nod. I see her frowning and I stop her and hug her. I look up at her and I see her smile.

"Why you up this early?", she asks but I change the subject back to her.

"Do you wanna talk about your nightmare?", she made a sad smile.

"Only if you answer my question.", she says I pull away from the hug to tell her.

"Insomnia, it's a bitch to deal with when you get 3 hours to no hours of sleep.", I tell her but shrug it off.

"But it's whatever, not like I can take medication for it cause, well I just don't want to and I have my reasons on why.", I tell her and she nods.

"Personal issues.", she says and I look at her confused.

"The nightmares.", she says and I nod my in understanding way.

"You seem like a nice person.", I say to her and she chuckles and looks at the time.

"It's about 6:30, do you wanna go to the cafeteria and get something for breakfast?", she asks and I nod.

"I mean I don't really eat breakfast but I can get a little bit of to eat.", I say as we walk to what I assume is the cafeteria.

When we walk in I notice that there's alot more people in here than what I thought there would be.

"So, since I'm extremely forgetful, what time do classes start?", I ask her

"In about an hour.", she says and I just look at her in shock.

"Classes seriously start at 7:30?", I ask suprised at the time and she nods.

"Jesus.", I say and she nods and pulls me toward the breakfast line.

After a few minutes we get our food and sit down. I was just gonna get a cup of fruit but of course they told me I had to get something with it so I got a piece of toast.

We sit down at a table in the back corner and I notice that Blake, Dylan, and another girl were sitting at the table.

"Well, it's nice meet you two again.", I say greeting Blake and Dylan.

"So, I'm Ember Jones, what's your name?", I ask the unknown girl's name.

"Aaron Freeman.", she says quietly.

"Well that's a really cool name, it's nice to meet you Aaron.", I say stretch my hand out to shake her hand and she looks at for a second then at me, I smile at her then she shakes my hand.

"So, I'm guessing this is y'alls whole crew.", I said and they shrugged and Blake spoke up.

"You can be part of it too.", he says and I shake my head.

"I'm not really here to make friends, maybe some people to talk to and get to know but not friends.", I say and they give me a weird look.

"Look, I'm not gonna explain so, if y'all don't want me to be here as a person to get to know and talk to I'll go.", I say they give each other a look that I couldn't decipher.

"It's fine you can stay.", Aaron says and I nod.

After about 50 minutes I get up to go brush my teeth.

"Where are you going?", I hear Dylan ask politely.

"I'm gonna go brush my teeth really quick and then head to the academic building.", I tell them and they nod.

"See ya.", They all said and I nod walking away and into the dorm building.

I go to the dorm grab my tooth brush and tooth paste go to the bathroom wash them go back to the dorm and then brush my hair and get my things together then go to the academic building.

When I get to the academic building it's about 7:25. I look for Mrs.Peterson's class and when I finally found it and go into the class the bell rings and the door slams shut behind me making me jump and yelp a little in fear and suprise.

"You must be our new student of the year, right?", the teacher asks sounding sorta rude.

"Yes, my name is Em-", she rudely cuts me off.

"It's yes ma'am young lady!", she yells and I roll my eyes as I walk towards the front of the room.

"Damn lady, you ain't gotta be so mean.", I say then feel a stinging sensation go across my face. I look at her and see a wooden ruler in her hand.

"That gonna leave a mark.", I say and she glares at me.

"Go take your seat right now!", she demands and I nod my head.

"Well, to everybody who's wondering, I'm Ember Jones nice to meet y'all, well at at least most of y'all.", I say looking at Mrs.Peterson then run over to an empty desk and sit in the chair.

"Now, as I was saying before Ms.Jones interrupted me, we're gonna be reading the novel Percy Jackson& The Olympians: The Lightning Theif.", she says and goes on and on and on about things I'm most likely gonna need as I doze off into another world.

After what seemed like a few minutes I feel a burning sensation on one of the scars I have on my arm.

"God damn it women!", I practically yell and then get hit with her ruler even harder.

"WATCH YOUR LANGUAGE YOUNG LADY!", she yells getting up in my face. Jesus, she needs a breath mint.

"Oh, give me a second ma'am.", I say and look through my bag before pulling out a thing of cinnamon icebreakers

"Hold your hand out.", I say and she looks at me confused.

"Lady, would you please just hold your hand out?", I ask and she does. I grab out one of the icebreakers and give it to her.

"Here you are, it should help with your ogger breath.", I say and the whole class laughs. She hits me across the face with the ruler really hard.

"Wow, I was just trying to be nice and you hit me for it.", I say as she storms back up to the front of the room. The bell rings signaling for us to go to our next class.

As I get my things together I feel a tap on my shoulder, it hurt like a bitch cause I have a really sensitive scar there, so I ended wincing in pain as I spun around and faced the person.

"Aaron? What are you doing here?", I ask

"I had this class too.", she says and I nod.

"Um.... I have a question.", I say

"And I may have an answer.", she says sarcastically.

"Are you aware that this is hell?", I ask and she giggles.

"I've been here since 3rd grade you think I don't know this.", she says as we walk towards the door