2. Blue
Laura heard music. Whoever was behind that door had taste, “Creep” by Radiohead, music she had been enjoying lately. Even more, she
smelt it. The young redhead knocked on the door to announce herself, once, then twice.
«No answer…great…but the music isn’t that loud... » She said to herself, losing the little composure she had left.
The letter that had been sent to him contained several things, a booklet of around sixty pages to learn almost by heart. It contained all the rules, from the most obvious to the most absurd, that she should respect. Two months to learn 60 pages of regulations, they had good ones... With this object was his room number, where to find it, and how to open it. A magnetic card and a four-digit code. To believe that she would live in a safe.
She took out her card and swiped it over the NFC sensor to the right of the door, before entering this code that was so easy for her to remember.
« 1…6…1…0…there you go, unlocked.» she said to herself. She opened the door and entered the room where a girl was already occupying. A teenage girl with a unique look for the place, who didn't even raise an eyebrow as Laura took a few steps into the room.
A teenage girl with azure hair was sunk in a comfortable office chair. The girl seemed to be paying all her attention to the book she held in her hands. Whether or not the stranger had heard Laura enter, in either case she showed nothing.
Laura shyly cleared her throat and tried to make contact.
« euh… hum… hey?” »
The teenager suspended her reading and finally gave the new arrival a look. His expressionless face showed nothing.
Suspended in the moment, Laura detailed her interlocutor. Jeans and a tied white shirt, long hypnotic blue hair and his eyes... Piercing, deep, a look to judge and condemn you but eyes that gave off an impressive magnetism. The girl looked both haughty and charismatic, and suddenly Laura found the perfect word:
Altière.
« I'm Primerose, but it's only my parents and people I don't like who call me that, the others call me Prim. You must be Laura, where did you come from,
Discount Girl? » The young girl unfolded in a slightly condescending tone.
Indeed, Prim was not wrong, the redhead mainly owned clothes from supermarkets or low-cost stores. Conversely, there was not a single item of clothing on Prim that did not bear a logo from various brands known for their prohibitive prices. “And she smells like Dior,” the American found herself noticing.
« You don’t have to be rude. » Laura replied in a dry tone she didn’t know she was capable of, « and I…”arrived”…from Springfield, USA. »
Springfield... it had been less than 24 hours and yet it seemed so far away...
Moi à Springfield, Massachusetts La vie coulait comme de l'eau…. Prim whistled and continued her song for a while… [
Un matin j'ai pris perpète…En ouvrant la radio « Carol Fredericks! » She exclaimed at the end of the verse.
Laura obviously knew this casual group. The American Carol Fredericks, the English Mickael Jones and the French Jean-Jacques Goldman.
Yeah, Prim has good taste
« Yeah I know thank you but no, it’s not the one from Massachusetts… nor the one from the Simpsons…» Laura listed wearily.
“Her” Springfield was modest but she enjoyed living there.
«So, “
Springfield”, where are you from anyway? » added the wealthy teenager insolently, emphasizing the name of the city.
Laura gritted her teeth for a few seconds, she feared that the one with whom she would share her room would be nothing more than a mean, spoiled child bitch.
« Kentucky. And don’t feel like you have to use the name of my city like it’s an insult. » The young girl grew impatient.
Prime was almost there. She knew it just by looking at the redhead's cheeks.
Come on... A little more...
« Well then my chick, are you angry? » added Prim in an even more mocking tone.
This time it was too much for Laura. She let out all the pressure she had been holding until then.
« IT’S NOT ONLY KFC AT MY HOUSE!” » yelled Laura, who was seriously losing her patience, before realizing that she was giving her interlocutor exactly what she wanted.
« “Sorry to upset me Prim, but it must be said that you provoke me. Maybe we can stop this little game and the unpleasant nicknames, don't you think? » She added to her previous statement.
Laura looked at Prim. For a second she thought she had restored fairness, but that was without taking into account the devious side of the European.
« Maybe. But I didn’t allow you to call me Prim, it’s Primerose for you.» the azure-haired girl said in a provocative tone. « Given your hair, I’m going to call you Red. Ok for you, “
Springfield“? »
This was the opportunity Laura was waiting for to defuse the situation.
« Okay for me, if I can call you Blue » laughed Laura.
« Surely not. » concludes “Blue“ with a seriousness that barely concealed his smirk.
Laura seized this great opportunity to upset the balance of forces, she immediately regretted it.
« And may thé odds... » Laura began, but the ax fell before she finished. She had pushed her luck too hard.
« I advise you not to finish this sentence if you hope to see the sun rise again. » asserted Prim, in a severe tone that left no room for doubt or debate. It was a taboo subject.