Day 2
Stein woke up with the strange feeling of forgetting where he was, a glance around the room reminded him of the mission and the female roommates he was forced to live with. They had already gotten up; Erika was the only one still in the room.
She sat on the futon reading a book, Stein, trying not to make her feel awkward, said nothing and sat at his desk, opened his computer, and started typing. If I am going to be stuck here I'm going to at least do something I feel is productive and study. He planned to do this for a while, but his phone rang… it was Marie.
"Hey Stein...?"
"Yes." He said laying back in his chair.
"I was trying to find the food court and well..."
"Are you lost?"
"…yes. Stein please don't tell Spirit…!"
"Okay, I'll come get you. Where are you?"
It was quiet for a few moments "Well, I'm standing near a bell tower, and a globe like thing, there's a building nearby that says ADUC on it…"
"That's the food court." Stein said raising back up than placing his elbow of the hand holding the phone on his desk.
"What?"
"ADUC. That's the food court, look at your campus map…." He talked waving his free hand.
"…oh thank you Stein…!" she paused and got quiet for a few moments, "Would you mind terribly to come eat with me? I mean, if you're busy you don't have to…we're just in a strange place that's all, and I don't know my way around…"
he paused for a minute to sigh. "Yeah okay, don't move and I'll be there momentarily."
"Thanks." she said excitedly.
Stein placed his phone in his back pants pocket and sighed again as he stood, "I'm going to go meet my friend at ADUC if you need me." He told Erika.
She nodded, not looking up from her book, awkwardness still abound. He changed into his ususal apparell; his short sleeved grey and dark grey turtle neck, with dark green pants and the only shoes he owns then left. He found Marie standing under the bell tower, "Oh good, Stein, there you are, I was worried you changed your mind."
"No, I needed something to eat anyways; I may have not gone out if you hadn't called." He side glanced to the library that stands up behind an out door staircase behind the bell tower.
"You need to take your health more seriously! You are a Doctor after all." she Turned to go to ADUC but was walking the wrong way. Stein quickly grabbed and spun her around. "Oh, thank you, Stein." she said blushing with embarrassment.
They walked to ADUC, a three story building that has a store, the food court and a meeting area. The bottom floor had a store for school supplies, books, and school merchandise. The second floor was a cafeteria like room lined with different restaurants where you can use a meal plan to pay for your food, and the third floor was a lot of offices. They host different things up there depending on the occasion.
Stein sat at a table outside the cafeteria where it was quieter so they could at least hear themselves talk. Marie came back with food, "I hope you're feeling better today, Stein."
"Yeah I am. I guess I just need to adjust to this, not really use to living space with a lot of females."
"Females? Your roommates are girls?"
"Yes, and they hate that..."
"Yeah that's a little weird. So the dorms are Co-ed?" she placed her hand to her chest with shock.
"Yes. You dorm with your Meister or weapon and two others. Mine are all women." He turned to sit backward in the chair like he always does.
"Well that can be a little scary I guess. They need to warm up to you, you need to show them you're not a threat." she waved her index finger at him like a scolding mother.
"How do I do that? I don't know anything about females." he looked down and to the side; making Marie curious about what he was thinking.
"I hate to say this, and I feel wrong for doing it, but think of them like an experiment, by that I mean study them. To get a girl to like you, you need to know her likes and dislikes. Talk to them nicely and don't be sarcastic or rude, don't correct them when they're wrong either, they hate that, if they're wrong let them find out." She placed her hands on he hips and flung her hair a little like she knew just what she was talking about.
"I'm not trying to date any of them."
"But you should make friends! These are things you know about your friends to…"
"Are they?" he said cocking his head.
"Yes…when's my birthday?"
He stared blankly through his glasses. He smiled and chuckled awkwardly.
"How about my favorite color?" she asked.
Stein shrugged and shook his head.
"Stein."
"What?"
"Well, you should learn these things. Just knowing that much can help a lot. Show them you have an interest in them. Girls like it when you can remember stuff like that."
"Again, I am not looking to date these people."
"Yeah I know, that would take a miracle." she knotted up her fingers and crossed her legs.
Spirit saw them and added himself to the table, "Hey, Spirit"
"Hey… I am already a popular man on this campus…women just can't stay way" He waved at some girls passing by, who did giggle and wave back. "...so what up with you?"
"Nothing, I was just trying to teach Stein how to talk to women…" she said. Spirit looked confused.
"You want to talk to women and you go to Marie? What about me, Stein," he shoved his fingers into his chest, like he was hurt. "I thought this day would never come."
"Keep dreaming, Spirit, it's not like that."
"Oh, Stein." He continued to talk not noticing that Stein had even said anything. "I can tell you how to talk to women and fix your screw problem…listen here." He got up into Steins face like it was a secret. "Women are suckers for a good sob story! Next time they ask about your screw, tell them that you were sold by your parents as a child science experiment, and they did all kinds of terrible things to you as a child. By the time you escaped it was too late."
"You mean lie about everything?" Stein pushed Spirits face out of his personal space.
"Yes… I mean, I don't have to, but for a guy like you that could be your only option."
Marie banged her fist on the table; maybe to hard becasue Stein and Spirit both jumped."No, Stein. Don't listen to him, lying doesn't make a good relationship, and anyways Spirit, Stein isn't looking to date anyone he just wants to be their friend."
"Oh well if that's the case never mind." he said backing off. "I can't help you." They finished breakfast. "We need to go, Marie, it's time for that meet and greet thing." Spirit said.
"Meet and greet?" Stein asked.
"Yeah remember, we don't have partners, so everyone without a partner is going to this thing to find someone we can match to."
"Good luck with that."
Spirit shrugged. They got up, "Oh and Stein my birthday is July 7 and my favorite color is yellow, try and remember it." Marie said smiling, Spirit shrugged missing something. "We'll tell you how it goes tomorrow."
"Also, if the headmaster shows up, I'll let you know what I learn." Spirit added pointing his thumb to himself.
I am not expecting much then. Stein thought, he got up, cleaned their table. People at the tables around him stared He took mental notes on people giving him looks. Is it because I am strange looking? I wish they would quit doing that… he walked back to his dorm and into the room. The females all sat in the living room. They appeared to have been talking but stopped and looked at Stein as he entered.
"Welcome back…you're a boy can you answer some questions for us?" Katie asked sitting on the futon next to Erika, Heidi sat in a bean bag chair across from them
"…well I can try but I am not going to promise anything…" He walked to his desk and sat in it backwards.
"If a girl you like asks you if she looks bad in something, do you tell her the truth or lie?"
"The truth."
"Even if it will hurt her feelings?"
"Yes…that's the truth isn't it? Feelings or not."
"See, told you." Heidi said to Katie.
Stein began to study the females like Marie said. He, as casually as he could, looked at their souls. They weren't very large, maybe the size of some of his students back home. Erika was mild tempered and very tolerate, Katie was on the hot-headed side and Heidi was very impatient but sweet as well. He mentally logged this.
"I wouldn't use my answers as a rubric for all men." he warned.
"Don't worry we aren't."
The Females began some more girl talk, not caring that Stein was in the room, they weren't going to let that stop them.
"So, have you seen any nice looking men yet?" Katie asked.
"Yes…Rider Blake is his name, saw him at registration, he was nice looking."
"The blonde? Yeah he was nice looking." Katie added.
"I always have the strangest things happen to me…while at registration some red head name Spirit wouldn't quit talking to me…why does this always happen." Heidi said.
"You get all the guys! I wanna be hit on." Erika shared.
"Trust me no you don't."
"Ok, maybe not as much as you, but sometimes it's a confidence booster, you know."
"No, you can have them." She said.
"Fair warning, stay away from Spirit." Stein added from his computer.
"Do you know him?"
"Yes. He's quite the ladies' man but he's unfaithful, wouldn't want that to happen." Stein said.
"Don't worry, he's not our type." Katie said, "I already have a man." She added
"You don't have to rub it in!" Erika said, "I wanna boy."
There they went again; Stein was ready to hit his head into his computer screen. Be nice Stein, I don't want it to be weird…be nice. He told himself and kept his mouth closed while his roommates talked on and on about men, then weddings, then bras.
I don't even like talking about guy things much less girl things. "Hey ladies, what powers do you have anyways?" he asked. It caught the females off guard.
"I'm a Pike." Heidi said.
"I'm a Fan." Katie said.
"I have soul perception." Erika said.
"Can you see the character of someone's soul?" he asked.
"No," she replied.
"Why? What can you do?"
"Me, well I have soul perception and I can see your character, I can focus my soul wavelength and attack without a weapon, and I have a flexible soul so I can use any weapon I choose, it also keeps some soul wavelength attacks from effecting me."
They all looked at each other, not sure what to say. Stein broke the silence with another question, "And if you all are weapons and meister why not have gone to the DWMA?"
"Heidi and I just discovered we are weapons around the same time this school opened, it's much closer to our homes so we came here instead." Katie answered.
"Really…?" just found out they're weapons this late in age? That's strange, and what's more is that this school opened up around the same time…
"I just couldn't leave my family." Erika said "This one is closer for me to."
"Interesting" he said turning back to his computer.
"Why do you ask?" Erika continued.
"Just curious." He said, trying to go back to work.
"Well, since we are sharing, would you mind if we ask you a question?" she again continued.
Here we go…"Okay ask."
"Frist is an obvious one…well why do you have a screw in your head?"
"I get that one a lot…it controls my focus. When I crank it, I can focus on the task better." He shared.
"Wish I had one of those, maybe I would have done better in school."
He was surprised "You don't thinks that's weird?" he said.
"Yeah it's weird, really weird, but still, to be able to pay better attention; I would get so much work done." Katie added.
"Is that all you want to know?" he asked
They all looked again at each other and muttered to one another until they convinced Erika to ask "well…if this is to personal than feel free to not tell us…but we were wandering about your well clothing…it's actually everything you brought almost is covered in stitches…do you need like some new clothes?"
"Ohhh." Stein chuckled a little. "Now if you're trying to ask if I am financially stable enough to by clothing yes, I am a doctor, scientist, and a professor…This is a style choice."
"Really? That's strange, why do you dress like that? You could look better in something else, not that I mean anything by that…"
"It just suits me…well I am going to go to bed…" he said trying to avoid more questions. They all said night and he got in bed. School just pops up and new born weapons my age just pop up too….
Authors Notes
This is NOT A SteinXOC fic even if he is talking an hanging out with these girls i don't want to give the wrong impression he will not be dating any of them...there is a little SpiritXrandom women and MarieXrandom men cuz lets face it thats what they do :D
Also I have a few typo's I fix them as I find them sorry if it's annoying.