Hope stopped her retreat and looked the girl up and down. She didn't seem too threatening, and it probably wasn't smart to freak out her new roommate with how untrusting she really was. The young girl grabbed the other girl's hand and gave it a timid shake.
"I'm Hope." Her barely auditory voice cracked mid sentence, so she cleared her throat and tried again, forcing herself to talk a little louder. "I'm Hope. N-Nice to meet you. Well, not nice as in it's nice for us to be here, but nice as in... Thanks for being nice to me." Hope turned red at her stammering, biting her bottom lip in embarrassment."Do you mind if we go up there? I don't want to be out in the open when-" She gulped before saying his name, "T comes back."