Steph takes a few short turns, before actually leading her three roommates to the right place. Indeed, the dorm is radiating with good energy, as a little music can be heard.

"This is the Seniors' and Junior's dorm, as you can tell they're queens of the world and nobody kill their vibes" the forward quickly says, before knocking on the door number 44.

The door opens, and a short-haired girl appears. She looks quite mean at first, but as soon as she sees Steph, she brotherly hugs her, before staring at the three girls. When she sees Jane, she immediately smiles.

"So, you're the new keeper uhn ?" she asks in a chill voice, smirking. When Jane nods, she wraps an arm around her shoulders. "Welcome to the GK Union, young girl. Let me introduce you our third member."

After she drags Jane inside - totally ignoring Rose and Gibby, who exchange a nervous look - Steph turns around and faces her new friends.

"Don't mind Ash, she can be pretty... keeper-centered. Come in."

As they follow Steph, the two newbies feel the atmosphere tensing up, as silence becomes king in the room. All eyes are on them, and Gibby doesn't like that.

First thing she sees is that the whole team isn't here. There are like only 10 people with them in it, which means 6 strangers, including Ashlyn. Which means they have 5 names to learn. The first person Gibby sees is a serious brunette standing in between Jane and Ash, which means she probably is the third keeper of the GK Union. Then, a blonde and a short-haired with a bun draws her attention. The two remaining girls seem way less friendly - a blonde and a brunette, both wearing matching pullovers of their team.

Gibby, who isn't really good with knowing people, gives Rose a bow in the ribs. When she crosses Jane's eyes, she sees the keeper smirk : of course it's easy when someone take you under their wing, Gibby thinks to herself, bitter.

Lucky enough, Rose doesn't have that much problems with people and is pretty outgoing and funny.

"Hey" she says in a confident voice.

There is a small silence, before the short-haired with a bun gets on her feet and smiles.

"Yo ! Welcome to the team girls !" she almost yells, a cigarette in hands. When she comes closer to the two newbies, they realize how short she is. "Congrats, you passed the Kling test ! It consisted in saying hi in an hostile atmosphere... Amazing what social psychology can do, right ?"

Gibby silently nods, as Rose says :

"Right."

"So, I'm Meghan, but everyone call me Kling." the short girl says in a friendly tone. That's probably the most friendly tone Gibby has ever heard in her life. After briefly hugging both newbies, Kling turns around and points at the blonde sitting next to her on the coach : "This is my pal Julie - or JJ because why not - and then there's keeper Kelsey Wys-"

"You better not worry about her, she's too chill to care about you guys for now" Ash lets out, before giving the goalie a high five.

Kling rolls her eyes.

"You'll get used to it" she says, gently grabbing Gibby's arm. She then looks at the two 'mean girls' sitting on the corner, and says : "Those two are Harry, but individually they're Tobin and Allie. Funny how people change when they're apart of a group..."

"Social psychology, we got it Kling" Julie says, which provokes a few laughs among the girls, including Rose's.

After the awkward moment has passed, the girls are told to sit down. Then, they learnt that this only was the beginning, because Ash is throwing a big party to mark the beginning of the semester in the garden, that includes a pool and a big bar/dance floor.

In other words : they are going to get wasted.

*

When Steph told them Ash is one of the most popular girl in the whole campus, she wasn't lying : there at least are 300 people in the garden, and 300 others all around. The music is playing real loud, and people are dancing.

After a few moments dancing, Gibby grabs a drink and joins Julie, who is sitting at the bar with some guy. She silently sits down next to her, not knowing if she really was wanted here or not. But after a few seconds, Julie tells something to the guy, and he walks away. The blonde then smiles to the rookie.

Something about her is really friendly.

"Are you having a good time ?" she kindly asks Gibby, smiling.

The defender nods. "Yah, it's different from the little parties we used to throw at my garage back in the high school days, but it's cool to be honest." she says, while looking around her, spotting some of her teammates. She then frowns. "Tell me, are people always that cold ? Not that I am criticizing, but..."

"I get what you mean" Julie says, smiling.

"You do ?"

"Yes, one year ago, I was you." the blonde says, smirking. "It was not easy in the beginning, but the girls here are going to change your life. Give it a try."

"I will" Gibby swears, trying to find a new subject of conversation. "That guy that was with you before I came here, is he your boyfriend ?"

Julie slightly blushes, when she says :

"Yes. It's Zach. We've been together for like four years."

"Damn !" Gibby explains, slightly surprised. "That's a pretty damn long time !"

"He really is the one for me" the blonde confirms.

Then, her eyes are caught by something on the dance floor, and Gibby naturally looks the same way.

Steph is here, pushing some dude away from a blonde girl, who is trying to stop her from knocking him down. When the guy finally steps back - not because of the forward, but because both Ash and Kelsey have stepped up for her - Steph turns around and looks straight at the girl in front of her. After the two goalies judge there is no trouble anymore, they join the rest of their friends, and Steph remains alone with the girl.

They start arguing about something, before the blonde walks away. Steph just rolls her eyes, before literally running after her. Gibby, who finds it amazing that someone could actually date someone while being so grumpy, looks at Julie, confused.

That causes the defender to laugh.

"That's Abby Dahlkemper. Steph's girlfriend." she quickly sums up, before smirking. "They're conflicted, but very cute. Everybody say they're the team's couple."

As the conversation between Gibby and Julie slips on their teammates, Steph is still running after Abby.

When she finally gets to her, she grabs her arm and pulls her on a corner of the party, behind trees, so that they could just talk the two of them. Abby looks like she is mad, and Steph know very well that she is at fault here.

But she still says :

"What ?"

Abby rolls her eyes, taking her arm back.

"That guy was just asking me if I had seen his boyfriend, Stephanie ! There is nothing to be jealous of, for God's sake !" the defender exclaims, tired of her girlfriend's jealousy.

But something in Steph's eyes make her relax when the forward takes her hands with her own, a shy smile on.

"I apologize. I just don't like it when people are looking at my woman" the brunette says, insisting on the last word. She then takes a step closer, and the lack of height difference between the two allows her to make their noses touch. "I'm sorry, I'll try and stop being jealous, I swear."

"We both know you're lying right now" Abby says, somehow holding a smile back.

The forward wraps an arm around her girlfriend's waist, before pulling her even closer. Right before she can kiss her, she looks at the defender and says :

"I hate how jealous I am because of you baby"

With that said, Steph crashes her lips on Abby's, who doesn't even think of pushing her away. She know how the girl is : she is conflicted, because before Abby, she used to date girls for two weeks, have sex with them, and then leave them. But with the blonde, she's found a safe place, someone to truly love and who truly loves her, even though both girls are never saying it out loud. More surprisingly is that Kristie, Steph's best friend, actually likes Abby.

For two years they haven't been able to leave each other.

As they're kissing slowly under the lights, someone taps behind Steph's head. The forward is about to flip a table, but when she realizes it's only Kristie, followed by Lindsey and an unknown person, she relaxes.

"Yo lovebirds, meet Mal, our newest team member" Kristie quickly says. She then raises an eyebrow. "Have you seen Janine ? I need to ask her something about our psychology class"

Steph rolls her eyes. "Nope."

"Thanks Hoodrat, appreciate your help" the blonde sarcastically says, before looking at Abby. "You good ?"

"Yah, what about you ?"

"I'm fine. I mean, I believe so. I need to find that freaking Canadian, so you guys just don't make too much noise please. See ya !"

With that said, she takes Lindsey and Mal with her, as Steph immediately kisses Abby again. This party will end badly, she knows it. But not for her.