Original Stories Fan Fiction ❯ Something Different Than Befor ❯ Shoping Spree ( Chapter 3 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

Blair and Jessica shared a lunch in the dorm dinning hall. Blair herself had grilled chess and a fresh salad. Jessica had some sort of pasta. It was amazeing what sort of foods they were offered. When they finished eatting Blair went up to her room to get the cash she had collected over the years and to leave her papers in her room. she took the list of supplies she would need for her classes and the envolpe Jessica had given her befor. On her way back to meet Jessica at the office she heard some girls talking,

"Did you hear about the new girl?"
"Theres a new girl?! When did she get here?"
"All I have heard is she is drop dead smexy and. . ."

Blair ignored the rest of the girls conversation as she went down the stairs to the office. Jessica was waiting there with an envolope and said.

"There should be about $150 cash, from your allowance in twenties. You ready to go get your supplies?"

Jessica took Blair to town were they started their shopping. there were several books Blair was going to need for her classes so they went to a second hand book store. Blair was thrilled to find all the books she needed and not spend even fifty dollars for the requirments and a few she found intresting. That load alone was more than they really wanted to be lugging around for the entire shopping spree. So next they went to an odd little shop called "Shopping Wheels" Inside Blair found a sort of fileing cabnit with a handle and wheels. It had two drawrs, a foot and a half wide, a foot deep and long. they bought it and the locks for the strange cabnet befor packing the books away into it.

Next they went to a sort of department store were Blair looked at her list again. she needed a school uniform. The list said she needed black shoes, a black skirt or long pants a black tie and a maroon, collar shirt. Blair hated skirts and ended up getting two sets of cloths and a new pair of black shoes. It took a while for her to find the right sizes because of her height and foot size. Next Blair got herself binders for each class, loads of paper, pens, penciles, clay, oil paints, water colors, and several other art supplies. Finnally Jessica asked, from behind the cart with supplies,

"Are you into art?"

Blair looked at the older girl then into the cart then back with a look that said,

"Gee, what gave you that idea."

Jessica laughed a little,

"Stupid question ok."

On their way to the bedding the two girls passed the electronics area. Blair looked for a moment befor getting a sterio and several different kinds of CD's. When living in the last several foster homes Blair had not had a chance to listen to much music and she did not really know what she liked so she went through getting a little of everything. With a little help from Jessica she picked out several that would have gotten her thrown into a closet or beaten befor. Then she reminded herself that she was not at a foster home anymore, she had freedom now and would be able to do whatever she wanted within reason. Among the mix of music she had country, rock, pop, metal, instramental, classical rock, and even some religous rock. After being pulled away from the masses of music Blair picked out a bed set that she would use on her bed, in her mind the new bed linines made the bed evenmore so her own. she found herself torn between the black, maroon, and dark violet bed spreads. After a while she ended up with the dark violet set. This would be the first time she had a bed set of her own and Blair was excited to set it up.

Jessica was able to read Blairs egerness to make her dorm room her own and gentally pushed her toward the home improvement area. Due to the small size of the room Blair really could not get any furnature but there were other things she could. The young woman planned on staying at the school for a good long time, until she finished school, so she got a power strip, a space heater and fan. She looked around a little more and picked out an alarm clock and wall clock she was planning on putting above the window. Then she saw lames and wanted to get one, then two. There was one simple one that would be good for working at her desk at night, then there was one that she wanted to use to have a light show, then she saw a lava lamp that amazed her. Thats when Blair hit a road block. She could not possibely afford to buy all these wonderful things. She looked at Jessica a moment as if to ask,

'Why would you let me get so intrested in all these things knowing i would not be able to buy it all?'

Jessica was looking at a buda figure holding a bowl above his head, with one of thoes electric balls in the middle of the bowl. She felt Blairs eyes on her, and so turned to look at the other girl. When the burnet saw the look of disappointment written all over Blairs face she asked,

"Hey whats the matter?"

Blair voiced her questioning look

"Why did you let me get intrested in these nice little things when you knew i wouldnt be able to buy them?"

Jessica winced a little at this and asked,

"Did you look in that envlope i gave you? Did you look at the cards in there?"

Blair frowned and pulled the envalope from her back pocket were she had put it before and opened it. Inside were two cards, One was her school ID card, and another card she didnt know what it was. It looked similar to a gift card one could get at a register of a store. The card the schools name on it in fancey caligraphy on the left side were teal colored thorn covered vines, then on the right side of the card there was a red rose and loose rose petals. Blair flipped it over to see what was on the back to find a bar. She looked up at Jessica. The burnet answered the unasked question,

"Its a debit card, linked to your allowens account with the school, all stores in this area accept that card."

Blairs jaw dropped slightly as she looked at the card again. She was suprised, pleasently before asking,

"How much did i get?"

Jessica shrugged a little,

" I dont rightly know, but im sure you have enough to get what you want. Students sort of get paided to got to school. The better your grades and the more clubs and what not you take part in the more you will get."

Blair nodded a little then tucked the two cards saftely away into her sock. Jessica watched this then said,

"We need to get you a wallet."

Blair shruged befor going back and getting the lamps she wanted and putting them into the cart with the rest of goods she had collected thus far. They wondered around a little while until they went passed small rugs. Blair got a rectangular one that was a shade lighter than her bed spread. Near that there were shampoos and soaps so blair got spring rain secnted shampoo and conditioner. It didnt really smell like rain to her, but it did smell pretty good. Finally when they were checking out, Blair started to sweat as everything they had collected started to add up.

"What if I dont have enough? What if they say the card is a fake? What if. . ."

Her thoughts were halted when Jessica said,

"Let me see your card."

Blair pulled it from her sock and handed it to the dorm head. Jessica explained Blair throught the steps to use the card,

"Swipe your card through the scan, bar down. Then put in the pen number on your ID card."

Blair got her ID card out and punched in the code as she was told. Jessica nodded then continued,

"Hit enter, then debit. Then if you want cash you can get that also, just hit 'yes' or 'no' depending. And then you are done. Easy as that."

They left the store Jessica pulled the rolling cabint while Blair held several bags full of the things she had bought. they got back to the school in next to no time it seemed, compared to the first time Blair had tried to het there on her own. When they got to the dorm Jessica pulled the cabnit around to a ramp that came onto the porch. Blair looked at her and asked,

"there are elevaters around her somewere right?"

"yeah there are, dont worry"

Blair shrugged and followed Jessica past groups of girls to the eleveaters and up to her room. With a little help they got everything into her room. Jessica gave a sigh of releive befor saying.

"You okay unpacking everything? I have some stuff i need to get taken care of'

Blair nodded and Jessica left the room. Blair dug out the sterio and her new CDs and got set up. After thinking it over she desided to put it on the corner of her desk and to set the CDs up on the shelf beside it. Blair fliped through the CDs and pulled out a Billy Joel CD and put it into the sterio to listen to it. As Piano Man started playing she stripped her bed of the sheets and blankets the school had provided and put her new ones in their place. Next she took the clocks from their packageing. She put batteries in both and using a push pen put one on the wall above the window and the other she put on the mini frig at the head of her bed.

for the next hour she organized her dorm and put everything were she wanted it to go. When she was finished Blair stood at the door and looked around her dorm room. Her side of the room was decorated, while the other half was bare. She liked her new liveing space, rather she loved haveing the freedom to do as she wished. This was truely her space, Blair found herself almost crying, for the first time she could remeber she was free to do as she wanted. She backed against the door and slid to the floor and shook with with sobs. After a little while she had regained control of herself, There was a soft tapping on her door. Blair jumped to her feet and whiped her face,

"Yes?"

Blair opened the door to come face to face with the young girl from that morning. Blair said,

"I think you have the wrong room."

The girl blushed and stuttered,

"A-actually I-I wanted t-to w-welcome you t-to the T-thorn Dorms"

Blair looked blankly at the girl a moment, then before she could say anything, the girl lost her nerv, turned and ran off down the hall way. Blair watched as the girl ran down the hall and around a corner, just as Jessica came up the stairs. Jessica looked down the hall following the girl then turned to look back at Blair. The red head could only shrug. Jessica came toward Blair and handed her a bag.

"Its a sort of welcoming gift."

Blair looked at Jessica a moment then reached into the bag. She pulled out a brand new wallet. It was just a plain black, leather wallet with a shiny silver chain. Blair unbuttoned the buttons and unfolded it there was a place for her ID card and her debit card.

"Thanks Jessica."

Blair fished her cards from her sock and put them into their place befor attatching the chain to her belt loop. Jessica smiled,

"No biggy, I have paper work, talk to ya later?"

Blair nodded,

"I think im going to do some laundry then go to bed myself."

Jessica nodded, turned and left. Blair stuffed her cloths into the duffle bag she brought her things in then grabbed one of the books she had bought and went to the laundry room. She was able to wash and dry all her cloths in one load, becuase she had so few of them. While waiting she read The Snow Falcon by Stuart Harrison. when it was finished Blair packed everything away again and returned to her room. Once there she folded her cloths and hung some of her nicer things in the closet befor going to bed.

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