F is for Freedom!

To say it hadn't been an adjustment, leaving the school, moving to Canada, shacking up with Maddie and Kaito-- well, that would have been a big fat lie. But she was adjusting. She and Kaito were even... well, they weren't exactly getting along, but they hadn't killed each other yet and that was a start. It wasn't a bad arrangement, all things considered.

She waltzed into Maddie's room without knocking (the door was open!) and plopped herself down on the bed, bouncing up and down on the mattress. "So, what was it you needed my help with, Mads?"

The first day back was always somewhat of a nightmare. Everyone lugging around their belongings, students trying to reunite with friends they hadn't seen all summer, professors trying to keep everything organized and make sure no one's powers went drastically haywire. One year someone had blown up the entire second floor bathroom in the girls' wing, and everyone had had to spend their first week back running up and down stairs with towels wrapped around and watching out for sneaking boys.

There hadn't been any disasters today, or at least that Amelia had noticed, but it still took her most of the afternoon to get herself unpacked and settled, including a few minor squabbles with her roommate about who deserved more shelf space and who got the desk next to the fridge, and with everyone else being just as busy, she hadn't gotten a lot of time to socialize.

She waited until the sun went down before slipping out the window (buying her roommate's silence with a few quality candy bars) and slipping across the courtyard to the room she knew belonged to Maddie.