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Mitch trotted to catch up, then fell into pace with Leo. He somewhat anxiously flipped his key between his fingers, reading door plaques in search of 314. "So, what's your bird's name?" Mitch asked, trying to make conversation. He had run into a lull in what to chatter about, which was unacceptable. "They're super cute." He stooped a bit to get a better look at the bird. Humming bird? Exotic. Well, not exactly, but it was rare to see one as a pet.

Leo kept looking in front of himself, glancing to the room numbers as they walked.
"Her name is Cricket." Leo tree a sight to Mitch and not until now he thought about Mitch having black hair. Was it dyed or natural. Leo himself vas naturally blonde.
"And I assume your cats name is Mjau?" Leo probably pronounced it wrong, but he didn't really catch that when Mitch had said tha cats name.
"They're also... Super cute!" Leo smiled at Mitch with a small blush at his cheeks, but then stopped, looking at the doors again. 314 was 2 doors away, he could see it now.

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"Close! Her name is Maou. Like mew, but more ow." Mitch smirked. "And thanks. Nice accent, by the way. Where're you from?" Mitch stepped ahead to their dorm room door, keeping his head tilted towards Leo so that he wouldn't miss his reply. Mitch fumbled with the key a bit, then finally managed to unlock the door and open in up. "Neat," Mitch commented, striding into the room casually.

"I was born in France and I lived there ever since, until 3 years ago." Leo answered, while looking at Mitch as he opened the door. He walked in after Mitch and looked around. Two beds, a big desk and a window that lighted up the room. This was great. It was really pretty compared to the room he had at the other boarding school before transferring here.
"What side of the room would you like?" Leo smiled softly while checking out Mitch backside. He should probably close the door behind them, but he needed to know which side to put his stuff on first.

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Mitch's eyebrows raised. "Shoot, really? That's pretty far out." Mitch glanced at each side before dropping his duffle on the left bed. "I'll take this side, if you're fine with that." He unzipped his bag and took out a cardboard box labeled "CANDLES." Maou wailed, pawing at the bars, and Mitch made a face at her.

"Hope you don't mind," Mitch mumbled as he slid to the door and closed it. "Behave," Mitch hissed at Maou, and the tabby mewled innocently. Mitch opened the cage and Maou hopped out, instantly in charge of the room. After he let Maou out, Mitch went back to his desk and proceeded to unpack several candles of various sizes and colors, all different.

Leo thought about it. It was kinda far away after all. He didn't think about it until now when Mitch mentioned it, Then he shrugged his shoulders a little.
"I don't mind." Leo put his bag on the right bed before walking over to the desk and put down crickets cage. She was humming calmly while sitting on the trampette swing in the middle of the cage. Leo started to untie his scarf. Glancing on Mitch a little. So, they were supposed to share room. The thought made him nervous again. He had shared with another boy before ofcause, but he always worried about stuff like, if he got way to excited or something. He was not an animal, but he was easily stoned by a boys body. Leo blushed as he put his scarf on the table beside the birdcage. He had to think other thoughts, otherwise it would get to his head way to much. Leo had actually asked to share with a girl instead of a boy before he came here, but the schoolprincipal was very strict about it. After walking to his bed, he sat down on it, just to notice the box Mitch had put on the desk. Candles? And alot of them..? Leo felt curious.
"Candles?" He asked softly while looking at Maou as they ran around in the room.

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Koshōshō with a suitcase painted with bright colours, in her right hand, a bag with similar colours on her shoulders and a smile on her face was jogging towards the dormitory. She ignored any weird looks given to her, she was clearly very happy to be at college. Koshōshō looked at her watch. Luckily she had time to put her stuff in her dorm and unpack. She started to look for her dorm which should be on the third the floor. 269, 269, 269, 269... she repeated in her head, trying not to get distracted easily as she walked up the stairs. She soon found her room, her smile only getting brighter. Koshōshō took off her bag, searching for her keys. Finally finding the right key she unlocked her dorm door, feeling the slight cold in the room. She picked the right side of the room as hers, putting her stuff there and closing the door. She looked around the room. Welcome to college, dear Koshōshō she thought to herself. Could be much worse she shrugged, starting to unpack what was in her suitcase which seemed like her drawing ad painting supplies.

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Mitch hardly seems to notice Leo as he was unpacking. His face was solemn and he was entirely focused on arranging the candles along the back of the desk, twelve in all. "Huh? Oh. Oh yeah!" Mitch brought his smile back up and straightened his back, wheeling to face his roomie. "Candles! I collect them. Kinda silly of me, but I find them fascinating." Mitch began to gesture to various candles. "This is a tea light. They don't make a lot of scent, but they're good for decorating. This tall one is the same, best for candlelit dinners. I'm surprised it did't break," Mitch commented, gently feeling the wax for cracks. "It'd be pretty easy to fix though, just needs a little heat."

"A day of college, another year of annoyance" Sirnef said to himself with a frown, it wasn't that cold so he could wear his tuxedo without freezing himself, whether that was a good or bad thing, he kept frowning. Well he was the one to decide that he would go here, he might as well pretend to be happy about this. Before he could begin trying to fake one, another heavy load was put on his shoulders, his brother had jokingly rested himself against his shoulders. "Come on, get off me" he said, smiling a bit from the silly and random act his brother had done "nein" was the response he got back, his brother stuck out his tongue after saying that. A bark was the thing that snapped them both back into reality, his husky had gone ahead of them, strange he usually is too lazy to go any faster then they were. He nodded at his brother, and his brother nodded back, he went at the same pace he took earlier while his brother speeded ahead of him.

"Come back here buddy" said Napoleon charging towards the husky ahead of him, trying to avoid any strangers walking in his way. He wasn't really sure whether he bumped into someone, but he managed to catch up to the husky, he pulled him up and put him on his back "Come on buddy, we're going for a ride to our new room" he said entering the dorms. "Now what did he say the room was, second floor, room number 214 right?" His dog looked disappointed, like he wished he was in the hands of somebody more capable, they went up to the second floor where he finally let the dog down, "room 214 right? room 213, 214, 215, 216" his dog stayed behind disappointed at the ignorance of one of his masters "wait, I already passed 214" he said backtracking "there we are, now where are the keys" he said reaching around in his pockets "not there, not there, not there, finally!" He took the keys from his lower front pockets and opened the door.

Collecting candles? That was odd, or maybe not, but atleast odd for Leo. He never collected things himself, because he was a pro in losing stuff.
"Neat!" Leo put his legs on the beg in a cross in front of himself. He didn't feel like saying he thought it was a little weird, because it probably wasn't. He looked at all the candles different forms and colors.
"They're really pretty." Leo then said, with a smile. He hadn't brought anything personal except clothes and toiletbag. Oh, and Cricket ofcause. She was his most precious belonging. He didn't know what he would do if she wasn't here with him. He usualy talked to her if he felt bad. He suddenly thought about how this college was only for orphans. He and Mitch had no parents, something in common, but maybe not a good thing. The smile on Leos face paled. He looked down on his hands and started to fiddle with his nails a little. He didn't have to think about bad stuff right now.
"It's great that we have the first day off school to get settled in." Leo tried to smile again but it looked sorta fake.

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Muffled talking behind the door and the door finally opening roused Colt from his light sleep. He had barely dosed off, of course his roommate couldn't take slightly longer. Not bothering to move a muscle, Colt merely turned his head to look towards the doorway, enjoying the soft mattress against his cheek. The first thing he noticed about this guy was that he was big. No insane-bodybuilder big but certainly no scrawny kid either. And he was tall as far as Colt could judge from his horizontal position. He more or less scanned the poor fella from head to toe with his eyes with an indifferent look on his face.

Wait, this guy was wearing sandals. Great, he gets a weirdo. And was that a dog? Even less room for him then.

Then, Colt's face broke into a grin as he finally spoke, "So the great roomie decided to grace me with his presence and show his face, lucky me." Colt lifted his right hand then and gave a small wave. "Hi, I guess," he paused briefly to close his hand and point his thumb at his own head, "Name's Colt."

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Navneet entered the doors with a huge noise. Thud!. He was carrying a laptop bag and a trolley with him and he was wearing headphones connected to his IPod. He looked at the paper where he wrote down the room number and walked towards the 3rd Floor. When He reached 3rd floor, he was staring around aimlessly searching for his room...

Napoleon didn't notice his roommate's first reaction, in fact, he didn't even realize his roommate was even there in the first place before he spoke up. "unhöflich" rude, much was his rough translation (yes, I use Google translate to do this, so it probably isn't 100% correct) "mornin'" he said saluting towards his roommate "enenin'? Mornin'." Great, he forgot he wasn't in the military anymore, he really has to get used to waving his hand. "Name's Napoleon, you possibly see I for a while, six months maybe." He thought he messed up a word in there, always hard to translate into a different language. He dropped off his luggage beside his bed, wasn't that hard to choose since his roommate already took one side of the room, his dog immediately crawled underneath the left bed, beside the luggage he had to lay on on the way to the room. He mostly didn't bother setting stuff up, after all, he was still waiting for someone, to the point where he started whistling a small, strange tune.

Sirnef had already taken out his phone, he was listening to music, with his earphones of course, if you listen closely you might hear that he was listening to some sort of alternative rock band. He took his time walking up the stairs, and down the hallway to find his way to the dorm room, enjoying his music rather than enjoying his surroundings. He took a sharp turn on his destination, room 214, exactly where he thought it would be, keys where on his shirt's pockets, and he opened the door. He tipped his hat slightly as a greeting to his brother, not even realizing his other roommate was there, he was informed about this, just not quite in touch with reality to notice he was there. He heard his dog bark trough his earphones , which was more than enough to realize which side of the room his brother took, he put down his share of luggage, wasn't more than what his brother had to carry, but still a lot to him, and pet his dog underneath the bed, already half asleep. "Really, you just left most of your stuff here?" He sighed "you really can't live without me" he said towards his brother, not realizing he stuck his tongue out again, and went on arranging their stuff, while somehow managing to keep his phone in his shirt's pocket, and not notice the extra presence in the room.

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Navneet strolls around till he finds his room. He uses the key and enters, which was unusually clean. He then checked whether all his stuff had come or not. When he Confirmed that everything was in its place, he threw himself on the bed. He put his music in high volume and started looking for good games to play on his PC. He didn't care about others, all he was looking for is his own happiness.

Mitch slowly arranged his candles, and once he was finished, dropped the box on his bed and took a plastic bag out of his duffle. He dumped the contents on the table, revealing three large matchbooks and 5 smaller ones, all of which he began organizing in one of his drawers. As soon as that was over, he took out a match and lit one of his candles. The room slowly began to fill with a clean, fresh scent. Mitch waved the match out and stuck it on a cigarette tray he fished from his bag.

"Hmm? Oh, yeah! Super great. I haven't really decided on a major yet though... Or minor! Pretty nervous." Mitch laughed light-heartedly. "So what about you? Have you decided on a major?"

Leo watched Mitch as he lit one of the candles. The smell that fast spread in the room was nice, and it made the room a little more cozy than before, but then he saw Mitch pull out a cigarette tray and highered his eyebrows.
"Do you smoke?" He asked, almost ignoring the question he'd gotten. His eyes narrowed a little. Leo had only bad experience with earlier smokers. Remembering last summer at the other school was not a great thing. It sorta left him a mark, litteraly. Some guys in the other school had stub out a cigarette on his arm once, giving him a preconception for all the people who had a cigarette in their hands. Leo suddenly felt a little scared. Mitch was a really nice guy from what he experienced so far.

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(Recap please?)

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(People are in their dorms. Most of them all have meet their roomates, that's like, what's happened so far.)

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(Oke then!)

Cassidy finished organizing and put everything in a drawer where Emma could find it. She then changed her side of the room to a turquoise and pink theme putting her posters and calenders up on the wall and cleaning up in general.

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Koshōshō put all of her paint and brushes in one drawer, spare paper and sketch books in another one, planning as she goes along. She put her unfinished sketches on her desk so she doesn't forget to finish them. That was her suitcase done, Koshōshō moved on to her bag where it mostly had clothes or devices such as a computer in it. No signs of pictures, plushies, anything to link with a important memory of hers. She took a deep breath once she finished unpacking everything, falling onto her bed. She smiled, enjoying the comfort, trying to relax.

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