Chapter 2: CHAPTER # 2: BONDING OVER LASAGNA!
ALLISON'S POV:
I moved my eyeballs as the sunlight struck my face and gave me a flushed skin. Uttering a cry, I moved my hand to my eyes and opened it slowly and tried to look outside the window but the sunlight was too bright for me to open my eyes fully. I groaned and get up on the bed in frustration.
"Hattiesburg's sunlight is so mild… This is so bad" I said in frustration and slid my fingers into my hair pushing them back. I got up hastily and drew the curtains, obstructing the sunlight after which I threw myself again on the bed and tried to sleep. After turning sides for half an hour, I groaned and finally got up from the bed as I couldn't sleep. I got into my bathroom and noticed that it was quite small with a small shower area in the corner. I sighed in frustration but accepting my fate, I got in and had a shower with warm water. It's not that my house in Hattiesburg was huge or something but it was not that small either. After having a soothing bath, I got out of the shower, wrapped myself in a towel and came out of the bathroom.
"Oh my… The boxes are downstairs" I said to myself, placing my hand on the forehead and thinking if I should actually go down in a towel and get my clothes from the box but I had no option but to do so. I climbed down the stairs and got to the boxes and luckily found the one with my clothes. I ran into the kitchen and got a knife to cut the tape on the box. As I swiped the knife on to the box, breaking the seal, someone knocked on the door. My eyes grew wide open as I looked at the door and wondered if I should open it as I was in the towel.
"Mail…" The man outside the door said.
"Oh, it's the mail man" I said and walked to the door to open it. I hid to the side and opened the door.
"Riley…?" The man looked at me and said. He then looked down upon me with a confused expression.
"Um, no she is at the school. I am her roommate. You can give it to me" I said and he reluctantly gave the mail to me.
As I was about to close the door, the mail man again looked down upon me and said, "By the way…" He paused. "Are you in need of something?" He added with an amorous glance.
"Excuse me?" I made a nauseous face.
He got nervous and started, "Ah nothing… I ah, I need to go…"
He ran away and I shut the door behind him angrily.
"Jeez these people here…" I said with a revolted look.
Placing the mail on the small dining table in the center of the hall, I took out my clothes from the box and climbed up the stairs hastily to get dressed in a skinny blue jeans and a yellow t-shirt. I glanced at the clock and noticed that it was 3 pm so I decided to carry the boxes up to my room and unpack it while Rylee comes back from school.
After unpacking everything, I was finally done with setting up my room but Rylee hadn't come from school yet. I glanced at the clock to know it was 7 pm in the evening. I wondered if Rylee comes from school that late every day. As I was feeling hungry, I climbed down the stairs and went into the kitchen to find something to eat just then I heard someone unlocking the door. I guessed it to be Rylee and I was right. She entered the house and looked at me and smiled.
"Hey…" She greeted.
"Hi…" I said and finally noticed Riley who has a pale white skin with freckles on her face which I envy. Her hair ice blonde in color goes gorgeously with her hazel blue eyes. She is an average height and an average weight girl and really very beautiful.
"Did you sleep?" She asked while tossing her bag on the couch.
"Yeah… Yeah I did but no much. Sunlight didn't let me" I said resentfully.
She chucked and took out a water bottle from the fridge after which she added, "Yeah I know… It happens sometimes"
"Well, it doesn't happen in Hattiesburg" I said resentfully resting my hands on my waist.
She laughed again and drank some water while she added, "You are missing your town very much I guess"
"So very much" I said and sighed.
"Why did you come here then?" She asked me but before I could start saying something, she added, "Wait… Let's get something to eat and then talk while eating"
"Oh I would love that" I said hungrily.
She laughed and walked over to the fridge and took out a box from the freezer.
"It's the best lasagna of this town. I ordered it last night but didn't feel like eating. So…?" She said showing me the box of the lasagna.
"I'd love to eat this" I said breathlessly and she chuckled while walking to the oven and warming it up.
As we placed the hot lasagna on the table which had an incredible aroma, we sat down and I hurriedly took out some on my plate. Tasting it, my eyes grew wide open and I looked at Riley astonished.
She laughed and said, "Did you like it?"
"Oh I love it…" I said and continued to eat while she began eating too.
"So…" She said and wiped the sauce off her mouth and continued, "What's with you?"
"What?" I asked her. I was so lost in the lasagna that I couldn't remember us talking about something before.
"Why did you come here if you are not liking anything" She asked with a mouthful of lasagna.
"Oh no I surely love the lasagna of this town" I said and giggled and so did she.
"Actually the thing is…" I started and then gulped mouthful of lasagna down to continue, "I didn't want to come here. My mum wanted"
"So your mum doesn't love you or something that she sent you here?" Riley asked while completing the lasagna on her plate and taking more.
"No… It's not like that. She loves me a lot and she wants me to take every opportunity that can make my future successful" I defended.
"That's good, no? Why don't you want to become successful?" Riley asked in shock.
"No… I want to become successful. But Riley…" I gulped and held my fork in my hand and continued, "It's just that I wanted to be there… in my previous school because my friends were there. Everyone knew me well and the teachers, they used to support me a lot" I said.
"But here also you can make friends and impress the teachers" Riley argued.
"I know… But it's not that easy for me, Riley. Because…" I paused and thought for a while. "Because I think maybe I am more of an introvert"
"Oh…" She said sympathetically.
"Yeah… and why can't people understand that success comes from your talent… not from your school or college" I said and continued to eat.
"Yeah but sometimes…" Riley started and swallowed the lasagna to continue, "Sometimes, it's the school or college that brings you success and that is because the CEOs of big well-known companies get impressed by the name of the school or college. So it does matter, I think" Riley said and I couldn't help but think about what Riley said because no matter how much I deny but it is one of the facts of getting successful in life.
"I sadly agree…" I said and surrendered.
She chuckled and added, "So you are a nerd, right?"
I chuckled and added, "Yeah everyone say that because I got into King Allen high school…" I said and continued after eating a bite, "Yeah I can agree on that… I am a nerd. I have been a nerd since kindergarten actually. When I started high school, my professors started telling me about how I could get into King Allen with excellent grades and when my mum came to know that… She was all on me then" I said and Rylee laughed after which I continued, "Yes… She used to buy me books that weren't even relevant for me" And Riley laughed hard.
"Oh my god…" She said and then controlled her laugh to add, "Is she that obsessed with this school?"
"High time…" I said and shook my head. "She couldn't get into King Allen when she was in her high school and she was crazy about it back then so now she wanted me to get into that school and college as well" I added and breathed heavily.
"Oh my…" Riley said and completed her lasagna.
"Any way… Don't think too negative. Maybe this school is actually good for you" Riley said.
"Well I hope so…" I said hopefully.
"Yeah… Maybe you find someone here" Riley said and winked.
"Oh come on… No!" I said and completed the lasagna off my plate.
"Why? Guys there are super-hot. I have heard" Riley said excitedly.
"I can how the guys are here..." I said and recalled the thing happened earlier that day and jumped up to continue, "Today a mail man came to give you the mail. And I opened the door in a towel and he kept staring at me weirdly and after that he asked me I am in need of something… Because I was in a towel and he misunderstood that" I said resentfully.
Riley started laughing hard and tried to gather herself to speak. "Oh my…" she laughed again and continued, "God… It must be Robert the mail man… He is like that. He is a total pervert. If you are fully clothed even then he stares at you. But you were in a towel…" She said and laughed again and I shook my head. "I am sorry but why were you in a towel and opening the door?"
"Because I took a shower and came down to get my clothes from the boxes and then he knocked the door so I had to open it in that condition" I said resentfully.
"Aw… Poor you" She said and rubbed my arm while we kept the plates in the kitchen.
"Yeah…" I said.
"Don't worry, you'll get used to everything very soon" Riley said and smiled.
"Yeah I will, hopefully" I said and crossed my finger. She giggled and tapped my shoulder.
"I am going to get some sleep now, I think" I said to her and she nodded.
"Of course… You go to bed and I'll see you in the morning… I'll make breakfast for your first day" Riley said smiling.
"No, it's totally fine…" I said politely.
"Oh come on… It's your first day, you'll already be stressed out. I can help a bit" She said and smiled.
"Thank you so much… You are really great" I said to her holding her hands.
She smiled and tapped my shoulder again.
"Bye… See ya…" I said and climbed up the stairs.
"Bye…" She called out.
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NUMRAH_WOLF TLKA!!! So Emily has bond well with Rylee. Is Rylee really nice? Will Emily be able to get out of the introvert version of herself? What will happen when she will reach King Allen on her first day? Tell me in the comments!
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