I open the black double door in the mansion. First thing that caught my eye, black carpet that transitioned into gray, then back to black. Second, the light brown walls that showed white here and there. Third, the big kitchen and tables to the left. Fourth, the 52” plasma screen TV in the right corner of the huge room. Fifth, the room was filled with girls who were partying or talking with their friends. I sighed and rolled my luggage to the back, where the stairs were located. A hand extended and stopped me from progressing. I looked at who it belonged to. A tall brunette seemed to look down at me, well, literally, I guess.

“Well, well, well,” She started, wrinkling her nose. I blinked a couple of times, wondering what she was doing. She looked about my age, but the way she dressed was very professional-like. “We have a werewolf here.” I jumped and looked around.

“How could you-?”

“Easy.” She said, flipping her long hair. “You smell like a werewolf.” Laughter burst out behind the girl. I strained my neck to see who it was. A few girls looked at me, still laughing. “Don’t be offended, it’s s distinct smell.”

“Um, okay. I don’t care either way.” I said, scanning the large room for anyone who smelled different. Being a werewolf, my sense of smell is stronger than normal, or not normal, creatures. “Can I get to my room now?” I asked, pulling my luggage to the small area she wasn’t blocking.

“What’s your name, doggie?” She asked, in a taunting voice. I shrugged, not thinking about her weak attempt to insult me.

“I gotta go. Bye.” I said, cheerily, running upstairs, totally leaving her behind. I heard girls laugh behind me, probably laughing at the weak girl. The music and laughing died down as I started walking down the hallway of rooms. Girls were going in and out of rooms, checking out other people’s room and some were even looking for their rooms, like me. I took out my room key and number. A-15. My mind rang over and over to keep me from forgetting. The A section was in the left hallway. Not so hard to forget. I took a left turn and counted the rooms down. 15. Right side. I walked to the door and stood in front of it. I took a deep breath, preparing myself to meet my roommates.

Suddenly, the door opened and someone came crashing into me. I fell to the ground, my luggage falling with me. “Oh, no! I’m so sorry!” A petite voice yelped. I looked up and saw a girl with brown short hair and pinkish eyes looking down at me, giving me a I’m-so-clumsy look. She grabbed my luggage and helped me up. “This is what happens when I turn back into a human after a long time.” She said to herself, hitting her head with her hand.

“Um, it’s alright. I’m not hurt. See? No scratches.” I said, showing her my arms. “You’re fine.” I assured when she looked at me again.

“My name is Melanie Hathaway.” She said, giving me a warm smile. “Is this your room too?” I nodded and smiled back.

“I’m Jamie Wolfe.” I introduced. She went inside the room and I followed. The room was bigger than I thought a dorm would be. It had three beds, one on each side with the door on the fourth. The only side that was bare was the right wall, which, my guess was mine.

“Hey, Sierra, our final roommate is here.” Melanie said, walking to the left side and shaking the lump under the covers. It popped up and scared me. A blonde girl with brown eyes appeared and smiled at me. She giggled every now and then, confusing me.

“I’m sorry. Melanie, that was a wicked wipeout!” Blonde girl, Sierra, laughed. “I can’t believe you knocked down our roommate! Nice!” She held out her hand to give me a high five. I blinked and shrugged, high fiveing her. “Anyways, my name is Sierra Jordon.” She said.

“What’s your name?”

I jumped as I turned around and saw Sierra standing behind me. “Wha-?” I looked at both of them back and forth. Sierra and Sierra. What is going on?

“Sierra…” Melanie cut in, shaking her head. Melanie put her hand on my shoulder. “I’m sorry. You see, Sierra is a doppelganger.” Melanie explained just as the other Sierra disappeared. I blinked a couple of times, letting it sink in. I heard Sierra bust out laughing beside me. “Sierra, you confused our roommate!”

“Oh, it was fun, Mel.” Sierra laughed. Her laughing died down as I looked back at her. “I’m sorry, again. You’re name?”

“Jamie Wolfe.” I muttered, still a bit confused from the recent trick.

“Ah, wow, lemme guess, you’re a werewolf.” Sierra said, getting out of bed. I noticed that she was taller than me by at least three inches, while Melanie was more of my height. I slowly nodded, watching her put up her long golden hair into a ponytail. She winked and smiled. “I’m so smart!”

“Jamie, as you can tell, Sierra has tons of energy.” Melanie said, pointing at Sierra. “It sometimes gets annoying, but let’s all try to get along.” Melanie had such a gentle and calming voice, the kind you couldn’t say no to.

“Of course, we’ll get along!” Sierra cheered, pulling Melanie and I into a hug. I eeped as Melanie make a shy noise. “Melanie, Jamie, and Sierra. It sounds perfect to me.” She giggled, releasing us. I backed up and smiled at the both of them. “MJS. Sounds like an exclusive club, don’t you think?”

“Sierra, please. You weren’t hyper before this.” Melanie said, trying to calm down the cheery girl. Sierra plopped down on her bed and crossed her arms. I spun around and looked at my corner of the room. “You better unpack, Sierra. You should too, Jamie.”

“You didn’t even unpack!” Sierra replied, in an unfair voice. I laid on my bed and stared at the ceiling as the other two argued in a friendly manner. I wonder if Jeremiah met his roommate. I hope they get along. I hope Jeremiah is happy he came here. Maybe Jeremiah already made new friends. Wait, if he made friends, will he still spend time with me?

I smiled and shook my head. Of course he will.

“What are you smirking about over there?” Sierra asked, shaking my bed. I jumped up and looked at the smiling girl. “A secret??” She basically jumped at the thought of it being a secret.

“Jamie, I have a question.” Melanie said, popping her head out of the side of Sierra, startling me. Sierra sat there, like an eager puppy who was being fed. “Who was that boy you came here with?” Melanie asked, cocking her head to the side.

“Umm…” I started, wondering how she saw me with Jeremiah. She must have felt my confusion because she smiled.

“I saw you two in the school office.” She informed. I blinked a couple of times, remembering the beautiful office. I didn’t see anyone there, though. No one was there besides Ms. Weatherford.

“You better explain, Melanie.” Sierra murmured in Melanie’s ear. I waited for someone to say something else.

“Well, I’m a ghost, so you wouldn’t see me, but I was there.” Melanie said, keeping her smile. I jumped and stared at her. “I have three forms. One where I’m a real ghost, no one can see me; Two, I am a part ghost. I have a human body, but things pass through my body all the time; And three, my human form. I hardly use my human form and I’m almost always in my part ghost form. I had to use my human form since the school rules require it.” She explained, playing with her fingers. I’ve never heard of any ghost kids, or ghost humans, for that matter.

“A ghost?” I questioned. She nodded intently. “Um, okay.” I said. I wanted to ask her more questions, but I had to answer hers first. “Well, that’s Jeremiah Dragonheart, my boyfriend.” I said. Sierra’s face instantly brightened and she took my hands.

“No way! A Dragonheart! Oh, I’ve always wanted to meet one! You are so lucky, he’s your boyfriend!!” She cheered, squealing every now and then. I blinked as my back straightened. Melanie put her hand on Sierra’s shoulder.

“Wow, no way. The Dragonheart’s are a powerful and respected family.” Melanie said, sounding like her breath was taken away. I could also see her eyes sparkle. I never knew the Dragonheart name was so highly thought of.

“Oh, well, yeah, what’s Jeremiah.” I repeated, feeling like an idiot. “His element is ice.” I added, thinking since they are fangirls, they should know. Sierra and Melanie gasped and grabbed each other’s hands.

“Ice?!” Sierra squeaked.

“Chosen by both air and water!” Melanie peeped. “That’s simply amazing.” They fangirled some more and I half-smiled at them. I wonder if more girls will fangirl over Jeremiah. I hope not…

“I know! Let’s all go downstairs and get something to eat!” Sierra busted out of random. Melanie looked at me like out roommate was crazy, which I surely wouldn’t argue about.

“I’m up for that, I’m hungry.” I said, smiling and moving off my bed. Sierra’s smile took up most of her face as she trailed behind me. Melanie followed Sierra out of the room.

“You hungry too, Melanie?” Sierra asked.

“Yeah, I haven’t eaten anything since yesterday at dinner.” Melanie replied.

“So you’re saying that ghosts can eat?” Sierra asked, cocking her head to the side. I smiled back at Melanie.

“Yes, we can, obviously.” Melanie sighed, shaking her head. We walked down the stairs and into the crowd of girls downstairs.

“Hey, Melanie, are you the only ghost here?” Sierra asked, looking from one girl to another to try and figure out their powers. I joined in and noticed a girl with a tail sticking out and she released fire out of her mouth and other girls around her started clapping. Whoa, another dragon other than Jeremiah! She drew her tail back in as she bowed. She had messy fire red hair and brown eyes with many piercings all over.

She looked over at us and her face instantly brightened and waved.

“Do you know her, Jamie?” Melanie asked, poking my shoulder. I shook my head.

“I don’t know any dragons other than Jeremiah.” I replied, looking away from the girls and going straight to the kitchen. We made it into the kitchen safely, but we almost lost Sierra along the way. She was too busy talking.

“We made it!” Sierra laughed. Barely! “So, what do you two want to eat?” She asked us, walking past Melanie and I and opening a cabinet. The cabinet she opened was filled with potato chips of many different flavors. “Ooh, bar-b-que ruffles.” She drooled, taking it out and opening it. “I opened one, so we’ll have to share.”

“We didn’t even get a chance to choose!” Melanie ranted, passing me and eating a chip. Even though Melanie complained, she still ate it.

“Heyy, I know you.”

I turned around and came face-to-face with the dragon girl from earlier. This close, I could see her many piercings. One stud in her nose, then one on her right eyebrow and at least 3 ear piercings on each side, not to mention the top of her ear on the left side. Plus she had her bellybutton pierced; I could tell because she was wearing a revealing red top.

“Oh, uh…” I said. I could feel Melanie and Sierra’s eyes on me as I heard them crunching on the chips.

“The name’s Alex Darringway and I’m a-” She put her hands up to her shoulder length and had fire coming out of both hands, “fire dragon.”

“You sure are a proud one, aren’t you?” Sierra asked. I jumped, seeing another Sierra appear right by me. She’s using her doppelganger power.

“Sure am.” Alex smirked, clenching her fists and making the fire extinguished.

“Me too!” Sierra smiled, holding up her hand for another high five. Alex smiled back and high fived her. “Your real name is Alexia, right?”

“Yeah, but I prefer to go by Alex.” Alex put her hand behind her head.

“You came from England and you’re a master at controlling your fire.” Sierra stated, then she disappeared. I turned around and saw the real Sierra coming forward, towards us. How could she have known that.

“Sierra’s doppelgangers get the full info of the people they touch.” Melanie smiled, still munching on the chips. “Such as weaknesses, secrets, and--”

“Wait, she touched me!” I shrieked. Sierra smiled at me in an innocent way.

“Chips?” Sierra offered like food made everything better.

“You’re pretty impressive.” Alex said, talking to Sierra. We all looked at her. “Well! I just wanted to greet you, Lady Jamie.” Alex said. I jumped; did she just call me Lady Jamie?! “You’re big brother Jeremiah’s girlfriend, so I should at least introduce myself.” She bowed formally and I turned to Melanie and Sierra who just shrugged like it was a normal thing. “If you ever need me, just call.” Alex said, walking out of the kitchen and smiling.

“Told you the Dragonheart family is popular.” Melanie said. Sierra skipped over to the refrigerator and opened it.

“Want anything to drink?” Sierra asked like everything was perfectly fine and normal.

“I’ll have a bottled water.” Melanie said.

“You want anything, Jamie?”

“Oh, I’ll have some Gatorade if they have anything.” I said.

“Kay.” Sierra closed the door behind her and handed us our drinks and opened up her bottle of Pepsi. “Cheers!” She said, holding up her drink. Melanie and I looked at one another, but gave in and held up our drinks.

“Cheers!”

“Cheers!”

We drank our drinks and talked about ourselves as we ate the whole bag of chips.