A New Beginning (Anyone!)

[kristian]

Mikayla woke up at a normal time today. Ever since she had that long talk to Dana she has been able to actually sleep at night. Mikayla felt particularly happy today. She hopped out of bed. She felt like the energizer bunny. She ran to the bathroom and took a shower. When she was finished she quickly dried off and got dressed. It was Saturday so she decided to dress in her normal regular clothes.

She got dressed in a blue 3 quarter length shirt, her cute khaki pants, and slipped over her new white sweater and her nikes. She blow-dried her hair, and for the first time in a long time she didn't put her hair back in two perfectly neat braids. She let her hair loose and wavy and free. She ran back to the bathroom to brush her teeth. She looked in the mirror and saw a girl she had never met before. Usually the girl she saw in the mirror was tired with big bags under her eyes, but this time she saw a pretty young girl with beautiful skin and no bags. She rinsed out her mouth with mouth wash and grabbed her parchment and ran down to the common room to write about her new discovery.

She grabbed her feather pen on the way out turned off her light and quickened her pace to the common room. She was truly excited. "I can't believe it!" Mikayla shouted merrily. "I can actually get to sleep now." Mikayla actually had been getting some sleep lately but this was the first time in years she had seen herself without out the sleepy eyes, the bags, and the braids. Even though the braids weren't bad, but she still felt more free and normal when her hair wasn't in two tight slicked back braids and just down and flowy like it had been before the many years without sleep.

Mikayla reached the common room. There were actually quite a few people in there but she didn't take the time to see if there was anyone she new in there she just wanted to sit down and write about her discovery. When she sat down in the couch in the common room she actually felt the soft comfort of the couch and she was finally able to relax and write down her thoughts, and not do it like a robotic thing she just did everyday. But she did it out of joy and comfort. Mikayla was able to relax and have fun, and trust me she wasn't about to waste it!

[Savannah Johnstone R7]

"VERT! VERT! VERT!" Was the annoying noise from the black box on Savannah's dresser telling her it was time to wake up whether she wanted to or not. Rolling over she slapped the machine several times with her hand before finding the off button and tapping it. Laying in bed for a moment she thought for a few seconds before kicking off her covers in disgust, today she did not have to work at the Cubby so there was no need for her to be up this early! She apparently had neglected to shut the alarm off last night and now Savannah found herself awake hours before she needed to be as she laid in bed listening to the morning sounds. From outside of her bed curtains she could hear the sounds of birds outside singing and the other girls moving about getting ready for their day of classes.

With a sigh Savannah rolled out of bed and flung back her curtain and walked to the washroom where she took a quick shower, then got dressed for the day. Still she had several hours before her first class so Savannah grabbed her mini wireless and a skater magazine. Pushing open the wooden door to the dormitory, she heard saw a little figure dash past the doorway shouting about being able to sleep. Rolling her eyes, Savannah shut the 7th years' door and followed the littler figure down the corridor to the common room but lost her in a few seconds.

Slipping the earpieces into her ears, Savannah turned on her wireless set and continued on to the common room where she found a few people scattered about and there by herself was that little girl who was shouting. Savannah didn't know who she was, only that she was one of this year's first years and she was writing feverishly. Her magazine could wait, this first year needed to explain why she was shouting so early in the morning.

Walking over to the girl, Savannah tapped her wireless volume down low and stood with her arms crossed in front of the girl until she looked up. "What's your deal? Why are you shouting trying to wake everyone up?" Savannah inquired.

[aithne]

Brianna scowled a little as she woke up that morning. The reason for her awakening at such an early hour? Her roommates huge snore which had kept Brianna up almost for the entire night tossing and turning. As the other Ravenclaw girl snorted once again, Brianna began to giggle loudly, amused now not angry that her roommate-with-a-cold had woken her. It must have been one big snore to wake me up! Brianna thought to herself with a highly amused smile.

Since Brianna was already awake and up, she decided to get an early start to the day by finally getting to be the first in the Dorm shower. The water rushed over her like a-well, like a hot shower! Brianna spent ages in the water, washing her hair, cleansing herself with her usual gorgeous lavender soap. Once washed and refreshed she stepped from the shower in a cloud of steam, and caught sight of a pink dot flashing through the steam, coming closer and closer to Brianna as she dried herself rapidly. Before she even had time to put the white towel (which had already washed itself magically) onto the towel rack, the pink thing threw itself at her, almost knocking her over and into the shower once again. "Ali! You almost made me fall over you silly little Puffskein!" Brianna giggled loudly, causing an annoyed moan from the bedroom as she woke someone up.

The Puffskein wriggled happily in her bare arms, and before she could get covered in fluffy pink fur Brianna carefully dropped Alico onto the ground, heading towards her closet. Once there she pondered over what to wear. She had no classes in that morning and chose a simple ensemble of white- a lovely white, soft top with some white cords and black flats on her feet. In her ears she wore simple silver earrings and she decorated her face with light, pale blue shadow and liner. Once done she smiled at her bright reflection although hissed at the slight bags beneath her brown eyes. Her hair she tied into one, fat plait, the brown curls lying still on her white clothes. After dressing she tucked Alico in her arms, seized her beautiful white leather book and an elegant black quill, then headed towards the Common Room.

It was fairly empty, the Common Room, and she headed towards her favourite chair which, unfortunately, was resting beside two other girls- one of whom was at the bottom of the school age, another from the very top. The elder seemed angry and Brianna recognised her as Savannah, though couldn’t recall the youngsters name. Mary, she thought to herself. Yep, that was it. Trying to go around the figure standing in an irritated pose, Brianna sat not far from the two and began to scribble away in her book, writing about the dream she had been woken from.