Dorm Sweet Dorm 2: Return of the Dorm

Colette dropped her backpack on the floor. Though it wasn't her specific dorm, her shoulders ached. It was close enough anyhow. The main room of the Winter House was indeed large, yet no one was to be seen. They must have all been doing their homework or something. It was around seven o'clock, and Colette had completed her homework in her old dorm before a staff member kicked her out for a new kid. Colette sighed, a light smile on her face. She'd get her own room again.

Though, she felt a pang of sadness. She'd no longer be beside her new acquaintance Brailynn. The girl had moved out earlier than Colette, and Winter was not the place she moved to. Hugging the birdcage tightly, she wondered if the people in Winter were nice. They were like her, right? That was why she was there, right?

Was there anyone like her? She took cautious steps, ignoring Ulysses, who was nibbling at her fingers through the bars. His tiny beak didn't phase her, and it kind of tickled. The girl let out a quick suppressed giggle, and lay Ulysses' cage on the coffee table by a sofa. Her bag was still by the door. She sat down on the couch and exhaled slowly, letting the sound empty as well from her lips.

Emily came skipping into the main area of the Winter dorms; a place she rarely stayed at for long. Usually the area would be empty, but today it contained a lone girl. Curiosity filled Emily on the new arrival, and despite her usual shyness, Emily decided to go and meet the girl; possibly find some things out about her. Setting her bag on the small couch close to the hallway leading to her separate section of the dorm, she put a big smile on her face and walked up to the girl. "Hi there!" Emily said, her tone happy. "Who are you?"

It was weird, having the power Kimply did. In the back of her mind, there was a constant blueprint, depending on where she was. She always seemed to feel the presence of someone nearby, and if she knew someone well enough, their location was always an echo in her mind. Aside from Evelyn, that is. Or anyone with a defensive power, in fact. But whenever Lette walked in, Kimply simply felt the girl's presence. There was no other way to describe it.
A curious Winter at heart, she tip-toed out of her bedroom, hair loosely falling around her shoulder as she rounded the corner and looked around the main room. Spotting the girl, she was hesitant to go over. Kimply figured she was a newbie, because she knew- or at least had seen, all of the other students in Winter. Then she saw Emily stroll on in and strike up a conversation with the girl. Kimply was beginning to feel awkward just standing there and finally walked further into the room, where she knew she'd be noticed, though didn't speak up... at first. Shyness wasn't really her forte.
"Hey. You're new, right?" She questioned, studying the girl, giving Emily a slight wave of the hand and a quick smile.

Colette suddenly spun to face Emily, startled by the sudden presence of another person. "Well...um..." she was interrupted by Kimply, who had asked her a question suddenly. Two people at once? It was more than the girl could take. She planted her hands onto her lap, shutting her eyes tightly. "M-my name is Colette! I am new!" she blurted out rather quickly. Ulysses bounced around his cage, tilting his small head at the newcomers. His tiny black eyes examined them, but oddly he made no sounds.

Emily gave Kimply a small nod before she turned her attention towards the girl. Colette, she had said. Emily took in the girl and could almost feel her nervousness. Apparently this girl wasn't used to being around people, or at least people she didn't know. A small frown formed on Emily's face as she crouched next to the girl, concern written on her face. " We're not going to hurt you, Corlette. You have no need to be scared of us."

Colette continued to look down, a blush of embarrassment across her face. Was it really that obvious?
Don'tlookatmyeyesdon'tlookatmyeyesdon't... The thought played over and over. Her power hadn't activated the whole day, and while it did happen, such occasions were not too common. She gripped her skirt in her pale fingers. Just keep looking down, Colette.
Taking a deep breath, Colette looked up again, pushing her power out of her mind. "Sorry." she told Emily in a quiet voice, a light smile across her face.

Kimply smiled as well, though she merely crossed her arms across her chest. "Yeah, you don't have to worry. I don't usually bite.." She winked at the girl, a grin playing at her lips. Her gaze traveled around, and she spotted the bird. Eyeing it for a moment, Kimply's indigo eyes flickered back over to the newbie.

"Usually." Emily repeated, laughing softly. She stood back up, moving away a little bit to give the girl some space. When Emily believed that she was in a respectful distance away, she looked closely at the girl. No, she hadn't seen here before in Winter, that alone was clear. "So, when were you transferred into Winter?" she asked.

"A-after school, I think. The person who kicked me out of the Initiate Dorm looked very peeved, s-so maybe earlier." said Colette, making sure to equally distribute her eye contact to Kimply and Emily. Due to this, she turned her head a lot. Maybe that looked weird...?
There were traces of French accent dancing off her tongue as she spoke. Her mother and father were from a city in Canada that was prominently French, and even though they moved to Alaska when she was an early age, Colette picked up some of her parents' speech patterns. Her voice was soft, yet firm. It was a contradiction, but it seemed to waver from time to time, the light tone ceasing as she mentioned something she forgot to say in a more audible volume. It was a habit of Colette's to add things to her sentences at the very end of speaking, which went against her "talk as little as you can" rule. She was a social butterfly that had recaccooned itself, and she was still trying to reopen the side of the prison in which she swore she left open.
Ulysses jumped up, latching to the side of the cage. He studied Kimply, as if saying Come At Me Bro |CC