[h1][color=Plum][b]Kayla Kirby[/b][/color][/h1]

Kayla looked up from her seat on a bench a little ways away from the noise. Everyone in that big cafeteria was already getting to know each other, while she sat out on the side. Frankly, though, she was okay with it. She didn’t want to talk to anyone right now.

The food smelled great, but Kayla didn’t trust herself with any of it. Her stomach was still tossing about thanks to the fact that they had to come in on a boat. Kayla didn’t do well with boats. Or water in general. She had spent the entire ride there curled up belowdecks trying to hold the contents of her stomach in. Why couldn’t they have just had a bridge going there? It would have been so, so much better. 

In any case, at least she wasn’t on the boat now. She was instead on solid, dry, [i]cold[/i] land. It was the weirdest sensation walking up from the docks with the others, a combination of barely being able to walk, the sun being really hot, but the air being chilly and salty. Kayla wanted to go back home to the inland already, and she hadn’t even entered the school yet. Speaking of the walk up, she would have to find the nice boy that helped her walk up to the school. She hadn’t caught his face, but not too many people go about wearing white pants and shiny black shoes. Hopefully. 

Suddenly, her thoughts were interrupted, as was probably everyone else in the big greenhouse, by a very loud voice. 
“WOULD ALL STUDENTS PLEASE PROCEED TO THE RECEPTION, IN ORDER TO BE ALLOCATED THEIR LIVING ARRANGEMENTS FOR THIS ACADEMIC YEAR. THANK YOU.”
Living arrangements? That sounded ideal. Kayla would have loved to go and lay down, even if she wasn’t ready to unpack yet. The reception, where was that? Kayla got up to go look for it.

It was easier to spot the flood of people than it was to find the sign that told her which direction the reception desk was. All sorts of people, a lot of them with strange outfits and hairdos. There was even this one really tall girl, so tall she stood out like a sore thumb amongst all of the others. She left quickly, though, she got to the front of the line pretty fast. Unlike Kayla, who was stuck at the back of the line. 

Even though it took what felt like hours, the crowd actually went away pretty quickly for its size. Kayla eventually sneaked to the front, and got addressed the strict-looking woman behind the desk. She looked at Kayla, and asked her, “Your name, please?”
“Kayla Kirby,” she said, not sure how to approach the woman. She looked exhausted, and probably wasn’t in the mood for talking. The receptionist looked at the screen next to her, typed a few things out on the keyboard, and said, “Kayla Kirby, you are with Beth Carson in room 268. The dorm elevators are to your left, and your key card is here,” she said, without even looking up. “Next!” she said, much more loudly. The man behind her moved up, and Kayla grabbed the card and got out of the way as soon as possible. 

Room 268? That was where she was supposed to be staying. The woman had said that the elevators were somewhere in this direction, but how were the dorms numbered? She looked around, but couldn’t find a map or anything. How was she supposed to find a room she only had a number for?

Oh well. She went up to the elevator, and got inside. It was empty, something Kayla was both happy and sad about. On the plus side, there wasn’t anyone that could ask her annoying questions. On the downside, there wasn’t anyone she could ask where the heck Room 268 was. Kayla wasn’t able to actually ask anyone where it was, so she would have to find out herself. 

The way that buildings numbered rooms like these most of the time was with a hundred for each floor, so she could start with that. She punched the 2nd floor button, and waited. It was a fast elevator, which was convenient, but it didn’t help her stomach at all. She probably wouldn’t feel any better until she could lie down for a while.

The doors opened, and kayla was greeted with a big 032 in the door in front of the elevator. No luck then- wait. Ground floor didn’t look like it had any dorms on it, so maybe they started on the second floor?

Kayla decided to test this. She went back into the elevator, which was closing, and hit the button for the fourth floor. 

Sure enough, on the fourth floor, the first room she saw was 232. That made things much easier. She followed the hallway, which was, for the most part, straight, and eventually came upon Room 268. She tried the card on the little slot it provided, and it opened for her.

Inside the room was two beds, one on each side of the room. One next to the door she was in, and one next to the windows on the other side. Kayla didn’t even bother to look for this Beth character, and flopped onto the bed next to the door without closing the door.