As she scanned through her feed, pointedly ignore the hate tweets that popped up every so often, Wren started picking up on the music playing outside. It was a familiar sound, something she'd heard often during her freshman year. Oh! It really was Vlad outside, wasn't it? She had been so engrossed with the familiar sight of the dorms that she just walked past the boy with the guitar sitting outside, brushing it off as a fleeting memory she'd just conjured up in nostalgia. Wren always seemed to miss school the most after an extended period of filming, but the same was also true the other way around. It was probably some sort of balancing thing. She needed some normalcy—school or other teenage stuff—after being in character for a long time, or she would probably end up in that character's mindset for quite a while.
Before she could think to get up and greet Vladimir outside, a familiar blonde had walked in the dormitories looking just a smidge troubled. Wren smiled as she approached, imagining what awkward adventures Julie Scott went through today. She and the older girl didn't get to hang out with each other all that much last year, but she knew her well enough to know about her frequent social missteps.
"Hey there, Jules," she greeted, standing up and waving amiably. She and Julie ended up greeting each other at the same time, but all Wren really comprehended was what Julie said, blurted out more like, next. Roommates. Well, that mystery didn't last long. She laughed a little at the irony of her purposely waiting outside in order to prolong and dramatize her roommate reveal, only to have said roommate meeting her there by chance. It sort of counted as an exciting reveal, though. She totally didn't see it coming. And besides, it was also pretty good news. She dreaded for a moment that fate would try to mock her and assign Alice Profit as her roommate, which had been the only she was really against, just so she would break her promise to her brothers. Julie was good… no, even better than good.
Wren noticed that her new roommate seemed to be emitting some awkward signals, so she thought her first act as most-awesome-roommate ever should be to make her feel comfortable around her. It wouldn't do for Julie to constantly look like she's berating herself over trivial conversations like these. Smiling, she tried out some words she learned in French, hoping the multilingual girl would feel more comfortable in the area she knew the best."Um, is it
c'est merveilleux nouvelles?" she said, in an exaggerated accent that was undoubtedly wrong. She tried again, this time with a slightly better accent, then giggled playfully. "Well, however you say it, it's the truth. I hope we'll have some fun roommate adventures in the future!" she said with a wink and a genuinely excited grin.
It was then that another student walked through the dormitory entrance. He was all too familiar, with the jet black hair and the telltale guitar slung across his back, even though the glasses sitting on his nose was something new. Luckily, he was too far to charm her dignity off her, because she didn't want Julie to get the wrong impression. She can't go off looking like a silly schoolgirl, now could she? She contemplated on calling out a greeting, but he was in a rush to go somewhere, so she let it go. Better she didn't tempt fate. She turned her attention back to Julie; in fact, her whole digression took place so fast, Julie probably wouldn't have noticed she'd momentarily gotten distracted.
"So, wanna check out our room? I haven't gone there yet.” Ignoring any personal boundary standards Julie might have or what her answer would have been, Wren liberally hooked her arm around hers and began leading (or rather, almost dragging) her to the right wing, where all the girl's rooms were.
She made idle chitchat as they walked along the hall, asking her about her summer and what classes she had for the year, until they reached their room. 222. By then, Wren had released her, as nonchalantly as possible, noticing belatedly that her controlling side was kicking in again. Was Julie even on her way to their room? She assumed she was because she entered the building, but to be honest, she'd just dragged her here on a whim! What if she start thinking she was annoying and overbearing? That was the exact opposite impression she was hoping to make.
Wren tried to laugh her blunder away, but she had enough humility to look sheepish. "Sorry, Jules, got a bit carried away. The first day back always gets me overly excited. I hope you don't mind." She pressed her hands together in a cutesy apologetic manner, but her words were sincere. To make up for her earlier pushiness, Wren presented the lavishly-designed, as expected only from Caelbury, door to their room with a theatrical gesture and an impish grin.
"After you?"