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“Ellie! You are here, come in, come in!” Maya Dashwood said welcoming her older sister into a townhouse.
“Thanks, Maya,” Ellie replied, dragging her suitcases in.
“Do you have any other bags?”
“Nope, just these two, I do have some other stuff at home, but I can always get them.”
“Okay well here, just set them in the living room, I still need to figure out your sleeping arrangements.”
“Still need to figure it out? Maya, I called you a week ago and you said there is plenty of room, but yet…”
“Well there is plenty of room here, this is a big townhouse that can easily fit seven people. I still need to talk to Fatima about the sleeping arrangements.”
“Maya, I keep on asking you about the sleeping arrangements, but you put it off,” A girl with her hair in a long dark braid said as she walked over to the entry where the Dashwood sisters are standings. She reached out her arm to Ellie “I’m Fatima Patel, Maya’s roommate, and you must be Ellie, it’s so nice to meet you.”
“Nice to meet you too,” Ellie said, giving Fatima a handshake.
“Fatima is from India, but when she was 14, she got a scholarship to come study over here, at a boarding school and has stayed here ever since,” Maya said, very proud she remembered.
“Well, I try to visit India once a year,” Fatima said. “I miss my family every day, they are so important to me. But I got a once in a lifetime chance to make the world better and make my family proud and that’s what I will do; even though Mansfield Park Boarding School was not my ideal paradise.”
“That’s still a great opportunity,” Ellie said. “Now Maya, you said you live with five other girls, are they here too?”
“Oh yeah let me go tell them you are here,” Maya said, already rushing up the stairs.
“So… Fatima, to be honest, is my sister a pain?” Ellie asked, trying to break the ice a bit more.
“She can be, Maya sure does love to go out and have fun, while I prefer to stay in and read, but we both love the fantasy and whimsical side of life,” Fatima replied with a smile.
“You must be Maya’s sister,” a girl with long golden hair and brown eyes as she walked down the stairs. “It’s so nice to finally meet you. Maya talks about you all the time and how great you are, but we all have that one sibling who we adore and talk about, for me it’s my amazing sister Jane.”
“Hang On! Hang On! Hang On!” Maya said, rushing down the stairs past the other girl. “I want to make sure everyone's here before I introduce Ellie,”
“Okay fine, first impressions are always important,” the girl with the golden hair said.
“It won’t be too long,” Maya assured her sister as three other girls walked down the stairs.
“Okay Maya, now are we ready?” Ellie asked.
“Yes we are, everyone meet my sweet, a bit boring, but all around amazing older sister Ellie.”
“Yep, the infamous Ellie it’s so great to finally meet you in person,” the girl with golden hair said. “Oh, I am Lizzie by the way, Lizzie Bennet.”
“Oh, I’m sorry, I have no idea what to say,” a girl with shoulder-length blonde hair and glasses said. “I guess, hi I’m Cate Morland, Lizzie’s roommate and lover of books and history, oh also it’s Cate with a C, not a K.”
“Lizzie and Cate have an entire wall of just books, they are definitely book worms,” Maya said. “Sometimes Fatima sneaks in and borrows some of their books.”
“Which we are completely fine with, you can borrow any of our books any time,” Lizzie said, making sure Ellie would feel right at home.
“And I am Emma, you can come to me if you need anything at all, epically advice, which I am totally great at, and shopping,” a girl with curly light red hair said with the biggest smile on her face. “Because Emma Woodhouse is here to support you.”
“And Ana Elliot can help you too,” the last girl said. “Oh I am Ana, and I share a room with Emma, but I can never be as outgoing as her.” Ana had medium and darker hair that was tied in a ponytail.
“So Ellie you have met the gang,” Maya said. “These girls are some of the greatest and most supportive friends I’ve ever had.”
“I don’t want to sound rude or anything,” Cate said. “But Ellie, why are you here. I mean you are 100% welcome and we would love to get to know you more, but Maya never told us why you moved in here.”
“Well,” Ellie said. “To be honest, it’s mostly boy drama.”
The whole room let out a sigh.
“Tell us all about it,” Emma said as the girls went to go sit down. “Because believe me we all have had our fair share of relationship drama.”
“Okay,” Ellie said. “It’s about this guy I was seeing named Ferris.”