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Chapter 1
No matter what everyone else thought, it really really really didn't bother Antonio Fernandez Carriedo that his two best friends would be roommates with each other and not with him. It was his own fault for not accepting the housing offer as early as possible. Now he would be sharing a dorm room with a complete stranger. He wasn't too worried however. He got along with almost everyone he met.
In fact, he was excited to meet his new roommate. When his parents came to drop him off at the university dorms, he all but ran to get his room to see if his roommate had already arrived.
"Hola! Oh no…" Antonio lowered his head in disappointment as he stepped into the small room. There were two beds against the walls with two desks at the foot of them both. In between the two beds was a small drawer. One side of the room was clearly already occupied. An Avengers blanket covered one of the beds and several posters were hung haphazardly on the wall. Was his roommate a 12 year old?
"Ah, I suppose this is going to be your side?" Antonio's mother said as she came up behind her son, holding one of his suitcases. She walked over to the empty side of the room and took a seat on the bed. "This room is very small. Are you sure you'll be comfortable here?"
"Huh? Oh sí! I will make do! I'm going to spend most of my time in class anyway!" Antonio assured her.
She merely hummed in response and stood back up. "I wonder where your roommate went. I hope to meet him before your father and I take off. That reminds me, he's still waiting downstairs with the rest of your luggage. Let's go get it."
Antonio nodded and walked to the door. "Vale," he replied cheerfully though internally, he was starting to worry that he and his roommate would have too many differences.
Two hours later, Antonio was finished unpacking and he had said goodbye to his parents. Once they were gone, he headed back up to his room to relax. His roommate had not arrived yet, which was only making him more anxious. He wished Francis or Gilbert were moved in already so that he could hang out with them.
Just as he was about to call one of them up, he heard the doorknob turn. He sat up in a rush as the door opened.
"Whoa- Hey!" The new arrival greeted in surprise when he saw Antonio. He smiled brightly. "I didn't know you were moving in today! I'm Alfred!"
Alfred was a tall blond guy with broad shoulders. Very broad shoulders. He looked more like a football player than the geek Antonio had imagined when he saw the Star Wars posters. And he didn't think he'd ever seen eyes as blue as Alfred's.
"…Hola! I am Antonio, your new roommate!" Antonio jumped to his feet, holding out his hand for Alfred to shake.
"Dude, I've been looking forward to meeting you! I really hope we can get along!" Alfred said, patting Antonio's shoulder.
"My god, Alfred, I can hear you from down the hall." A male's English accented voice cut in from the doorway.
Antonio and Alfred turned to look at the speaker, a young man with messy blond hair and very thick eyebrows. His eyes were a lighter green than Antonio's.
"Arthur, come in come in!" Alfred said, grinning at the English guy and wrapping an arm around his shoulder once he was close enough. "Meet my new roomie, Antonio!"
"Pleasure," Arthur said politely, shaking Antonio's hand briskly.
"Antonio, this is Arthur! My…" Alfred hesitated a second before continuing. "My boyfriend." He narrowed his eyes at the Spaniard. "You don't gotta problem with that do ya?"
"Que?! No! Of course not!" Antonio said quickly, though he was a little surprised. He hadn't expected for Alfred to be gay or bisexual or anything. He really had to learn to stop judging based on looks. "It's very nice to meet you, Arthur. Do you go to school here too?" Alfred's glare and hostile pose vanished in an instant and he was back to smiling brightly.
Arthur rolled his eyes at Alfred and replied. "No, I just came to visit Alfred for the weekend. I go to a school a few hours away from here. I'll be leaving soon actually so Alfred, as soon as I grab my things I need to head down." Arthur walked into the tiny bathroom that the two boys would be sharing.
"So, as soon as I say bye to Artie, I'll come back up and we can hang out! Get to know each other! You don't have any plans tonight do ya?" Alfred told Antonio eagerly.
Antonio smiled brightly and nodded. "No, I don't! That would be great!" He said, just as Arthur came out again.
"I'm ready to go." Arthur went back to Alfred's side. "It was nice meeting you, Antonio. I will be seeing you again."
"Be right back, dude!" Alfred said to Antonio as he wrapped an arm around Arthur's waist and led him out.
Antonio just nodded and fell back onto his bed. Alfred seemed like a really cool guy so far. And it didn't hurt that he was very cute too. Not that it mattered; he was clearly in a committed relationship.
Antonio considered taking a nap when Alfred was still gone ten minutes later. He had just closed his eyes when he heard the door open once again.
"H-hey! Sorry about that!" Alfred laughed breathlessly. "Got a little caught up in our goodbyes."
Antonio sat up and smiled weakly. "Don't worry about it, amigo." He said lightly.
Alfred beamed and took a seat on his own bed. "So! This is exciting, right? Away from home for the first time; where is home for you anyway?"
"Ah well, I am originally from Spain but I moved to this city a few years ago," Antonio answered. "How about you?"
"I'm from a small town about four hours away from here. Artie's college is closer to it than this school," Alfred replied cheerfully.
"Oh! Why didn't you go to school with him?" Antonio asked curiously. "I mean, I would like to go to school with my significant other…if I had one…"
"That would have been awesome, yeah. But, I wanted to leave my town! And Artie and I will try to see each other as often as we can!" Alfred said and grinned. "And well I got an awesome football scholarship here so, that was a nice plus!"
"Wow! A football scholarship? Congratulations! Now I will have even more reason to go to the sporting events." Antonio chuckled.
"Heh, thanks!" Alfred said happily. "Do you play any sports?"
"Yeah! I play soccer mostly! I wish I got a scholarship for that!" Antonio laughed and Alfred joined in.
The rest of the day was spent with the two young men asking each other tons of questions. Antonio couldn't believe he had been worrying about not getting along with Alfred. This was going to a great year!
