New friends.

"Oh, I-uh, I'm sorry." A very flustered Mellissa uttered. I looked at her confused. She was red with embarrassment by now.

"Chill Mel, that's not a big deal." I assured her with a smile trying to make her comfortable. She did not seem to be a shy person when she talked to me, she even initiated the conversation.

She nodded and looked at Jasmine who was still looking at both of us one by one.

"Uhh, hey." she once again trailed off and then gave a little wave, "I'm Mellissa."

Jasmine gave her a smile showing all her pearly teeth.

Her brown hair were still wrapped in a towel but few waves were now sticking to her face. Her green eyes were sparking with joy as she kept on taking in our surroundings.

I yawned once again rubbing my eyes.

"I'll be off to b-," I was about to finish my sentence when I heard our door being knocked.

"Who could be at the door now?" Mel asked going behind Jasmine now.

"Let me check," I said moving to the door.

"But what if ," Mel started again as I was about to open the door.

I gave her a stink eye and faced Jasmine instead,

"Can you please place a hand on her mouth for me?" In a sickly sweet voice I asked her. She nodded hurriedly putting a hand on her face.

She looked wide-eyed at me. The door knocking was again heard so I opened the door.

"Move aside," a guard said in an urgent voice with a gun in front of his face. I moved out of the door as he moved in. I saw some of girls looking out of their rooms.

"Umm, sir is anything wrong?" I asked him in an unsure manner.

"Yeah, there was screaming heard from your room, the girls reported that there is some intrusion. Don't worry you are safe now." He said still inspecting the room.

I could see Mel and Jasmine standing there with their hands up in surrender.

"Uh," I started as I saw the guard opening the bathroom door. "Sir, I think you were mistaken. My roommate just saw a mouse and she is very terrified of them, so uh-" I explained to him in a low tone.

Mel, gulped looking down following Jasmine.

"Is that true?" He asked both of them now, his gun still in his hands.

Both of them nodded without even looking up .

"I expect that this would not happen again," he said as I moved behind him to close the door.

"Of course sir, I will take care of it." I told him.

He nodded and left. I looked at the girls in hallway now, some of them had already closed the doors and some were still looking dumbfounded. I gave them a guilty look and closed our door.

"That was close," I sighed leaning against the door.

"It was terrible," Jasmine whisper shouted.

"Yeah," Mellissa said going to sit on her bed again.

I walked to my bed with a tired face and started to lie down on it.

"I'm going to sleep now, please try not to shout again." I pleaded in a weak voice.

I fell asleep in no time as I was tired from all the travelling and had not slept properly for last two nights.

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I waked up as I heard my alarm ringing.

I dismissed it and slept again, it was for five minutes when I again heard the ringing.

I opened my eyes to see that it was already 7:30 in the morning and my class start at 8:15. I did not have to walk to the campus a lot, but I still needed to look for my class.

"Shi**! It's the first day, " I whisper shouted to my own self.

I hurried to run to my suitcase. I hastily pulled out a black tank top with my skinny jeans.

I then went to bathroom and changed into it after a quick shower. I had just came out of the bathroom when I heard front door opening.

I saw Jasmine standing on the front door with cups of coffee in her hand.

"Morning, you are awake," she said with her usual pearly smile.

"Morning," I said. I looked at her beautiful pink sundress that reached her knee. She had a denim jacket on top of that.

"You are going to wear that?" She asked assessing my top and jeans in a thoughtful manner.

"Umm, yeah?" I answered but it seemed more like a question.

"I know that you are beautiful with your natural appearance, but it's you first day here. Leave an impression girl." She declared and started to pull dresses out of her bags.

I kept on staring at her while sipping coffee from the cups she offered me earlier.

"Found it!" She yelled in victory that it made poor Mel wake up from her deep sleep. She sat up on her bed while rubbing her eyes still half sleeping.

"Here," she said giving me a shirt and ripped jeans.

I looked at the clothing she offered for a moment not understanding her intentions.

"Go wear it, I think it will fit you perfectly." I eyed her 5'5 stature and then motioned to mine 5'7.

"Just wear it, it does not fit me very well." She pushed me in the bathroom.

Reluctantly, I pulled on the clothes she gave me. The pants were bit more stuffy but I thought not to complain about it as she was not going to take any complains now.

I opened the door.

"Let's do some magic, " Jasmine said as soon as I opened the door.

She pulled me to her bed and started putting make up on my face. I heard the bathroom door opening and closing signaling that Mel was up as well.

"I don't like doing make up," I whined.

"You will love it," she said not stopping for a second.

"But," I started but she cut me off.

"I will keep it minimum, please stop whining now." She said in a strict statement to shut me up.

After 5 more minutes she was done. So she offered me a small mirror.

"See for yourself." She said admiring her work.

I looked into the mirror to see a girl with penetrating hazel eyes, I no more had dark circles surrounding my eyes. My lips were no more chapped either.

The shirt was a white one-shoulder top with a leather jacket on it. The ripped jeans were fitting every inch of my legs showing every curve I had.

"Wow!" I heard Mel's voice as she came in her red sweater with a beautiful black leather jacket that had a badass vibe to it.

"You are rocking it girl, " she exclaimed.

"Of course, she is going to get many dates today." Jasmine added.

"Girls you are going too fast in your imaginations." I told them standing up to wear white sneaker Jasmine had already set out for me.

"No we are not," they both said in unison.

I shook my head and looked at the clock again to see that it was already 8 now.

"Let's go now, I don't want to be a lost cause before my first lecture." I said moving to the door.

Both of them chuckled and came out just behind my with their stuff they needed for class.