Dorm 7: Rosalina

Rosalina silently walks into her new dorm room. As she closes the door behind her, she walks over to the window.

"Why did you leave me here, you wicked monster..." she says, talking to herself, as if she was crazy, which of course she wasn't. At least, not to anyone else. Rosalina sighs as she thinks about her old home and plops onto her bed. As soon as her head hits the pillow, she falls into a seemingly endless sleep...

Hikyuu's fist hit the door repeatedly. "Newbie-chan~! Let's be friiieeenndssss!!!"

'What the hell?' thinks Rosalina. 'What is that person doing?' She decides to play along. "Who dares disturb my sleep???"

Hikyuu grinned. "... ME!!!" she yelled. "THAT'S WHO!!"

"Who's me??"

Hikyuu thought about it. "Open the door and I'll say my name!!"

'Dammit... Okay, be nice. Be nice...' Rosalina thinks to herself. She rolls out of her bed and
quickly puts on a fake, cheerful smile as she opens the door. "Hello there! My name is-"

Hikyuu cut her off and glomped her. "HELLO, NEWBIE-CHAN~!!! NEW FRIEND, NEW FRIEND!!!!" She said it with what could have been desperation in her voice, like a little puppy wanting nothing more than shelter, or it also could have been the fact that she knew that no matter what the girl thought, they would be friends.

"Ahhh! Huggies attack!" she yelled as Rosalina fell back onto the floor. As soon as she hit the ground, she started to laugh.

Hikyuu grinned, pronounced incisors revealed. She helped the girl up. "So, Newbie-chan. My name's Hikyuu Fuzoku. What about you?" She had a jacket hood over her head, purple, green, and orange splashed onto a black background.

"Hikyuu? That's a new one," Rosalina puts her hand out and smiles warmly at the part-wolf part-human girl.
"I'm Rosie. So, are you part of the welcoming committee or something?"

Hikyuu shook her hand. "Nah, I'm just... well, friendly." It was easy for one to imagine Hikyuu as a puppy with a wagging tail.

"I can tell." Rosalina laughed, teasing a bit. "Who lives around here?"

Hikyuu's smile wavered before returning full blast. "Ah, just a few people. Ten-chan, Hidaka-chan."

"And I assume they are all like you?" she asks.

Hikyuu's eyebrows raised, and she invited herself in, sitting on Newbie's bed. "Iya. Nothing like me." She unzipped her jacket, but didn't take it off. She kept the hood on her head even though it wasn't needed. Of course, it was to her.

"That's unfortunate. Do you have any family here? Nice friends? Students?" Rosalina sighs, as a sign of exhaustion. "Being new takes a lot out of me..."

Hikyuu smiled. "Hidaka-chan is my twin sister!" she said cheerfully. "And Ten-chan is my friend! She's nice, but she's not too skilled with socializing."

Rosalina smiled. "Twin sisters? Is she just like you? And what about that other person you were talking about, with the non-social problem?"

Hikyuu sighed, smile disappearing. "Hidaka is more of a rebel. And Ten-chan... Well, I only met her once."

"Oh...?" she said, with the look of perplexity in her eyes. Rosalina sighed again, as she thought about her sister that she left behind. 'Samantha-chan...' she thought. Rosalina frowned, but then quickly recovered when she realized that she was in front of a girl that she just met, and she hasn't trusted her fully yet. "It's nice... To have a sister by your side, huh?"

Hikyuu sighed. "She's never by my side. She's never even here. She's always off with her... friends."

"Does it hurt? To be alone like that?" Rosalina asks, trying to go a bit deeper into the girl's heart. 'God, is this 20 questions, or am I being as annoying as heck with this so-called cheerful personality thing??'

Hikyuu shook her head, smiling. "Nah, because as long as you know somebody loves you, you're never alone!"