Welp. Sorry for the seemingly short chapter. I promise the upcoming ones will be longer than this! And trust me they are, I've already typed up to chapter 6!

Jay hated his new roommate.

Cole treated Jay as if he was just some visitor, not taking notice of him and only asking him small questions, as if he didn't want to start a conversation.

Yesterday, Cole had taken Jay outside the dorm room and they explored their building as other students were getting settled. But even as they walked, Cole never looked at Jay once and never spoke a single word to him unless otherwise.

Yesterday, after he had settled in, Cole had left the room to go look for someone. So Jay crawled onto Cole's side of the room and hopped onto his swivel chair. He put his feet up on Cole's desk and gazed up at the wall. There weren't very many posters as Jay had, but there were definitely a lot of books.

"My name is Cole, and welcome to your new room… Jay."

At last Jay knew his name. That was one thing down. The next was to decorate his side of the room. He took a quick glance at his empty wall and saw a pile of books and bags on his soon to be bed. Jay frowned at them. When he turned back around he saw Cole munching on a granola bar.

"Hey, Cole? Could you move your stuff so I can decorate my side of the room?" He asked his new roommate.

Once Cole removed his things from the bed, Jay pulled over his bags and pulled out a poster. He jumped up on the bed to boost his height and reached up to put the pin the poster against the wall.

After he decorated his side, Jay reached into the bag and felt around, his eyes widened when the he couldn't find it. Screaming internally, he stuffed his head into the duffel bag and gazed through everything inside of it. "It's not in here!"

"What's not in there?"

However, he didn't hear Cole's question and continued to search through his bags.

"Did you lose your ID card?"

"No! It's right there next your book!" Jay had searched through all his bags and when he couldn't find what he was looking for, he fell backwards onto his bed. "Awwhhh nooo…" He covered his face with his hands and groaned.

Cole threw away his granola bar wrapper and kicked back in his swivel chair, looking at Jay with a brow raised.

"Hmm, yeah, well whatever."

When Jay came into the room, he headed straight for his bed. Face planting into his pillow, Jay let out a long and annoying groan. The books under his arm falling to the floor. Cole, who was sitting at his desk again, doodling, threw another book at Jay to get him to shut up.

"Ow! You really got to stop throwing books! You know that?" Jay told him once his face was out of the pillows.

"Yeah? Well you need to find a hobby."

"Uh, may I remind you I just got here like a day ago? I'm trying to get used to this place."

"Hah, and didn't you know I arrived here the same day you did? Just earlier?"

Jay held his tongue and folded his arms, turning his back on Cole. Just then, he had a thought about clubs, and decided to ask Cole. "Hey, Cole?" He turned around to see that Cole had already continued on drawing.

"What do you want, motormouth?"

Jay's muscles tensed and he repeated that name over and over in his head. Was that a nickname? An insult? "Er, what did you just say?"

Cole swiveled around in his chair and looked at Jay with dead eyes. "Like it? I came up with it yesterday when I realized how much you like to blab." He smirked at Jay.

"Well then…" Jay looked around the room for more clues to come up with another nickname for Cole. One that could surely tap his nerves. He saw a camera, a potted plant? Maybe he enjoyed nature? He noticed Cole looking at him like he was a weirdo. Jay hesitated and tried to come up with something on spot.

"D-dirtclod!"

"Dirtclod? How'd you come up with that?"

"W-well you obviously like nature right?"

Cole growled. "Then how about…" He noticed Jay's bright blue eyes which sparked with energy, giving Cole the idea of lighting. And lightning was quick, and so was Jay when it came to blabbering. "Zaptrap!"

Jay fumed with anger.

"I'm not that talkative!"

"Oh, really? I can tell you that yesterday while you were explaining to me about your so called hero Ritz Fonnegen or whatever -"

"It's Fritz Donnegan!"

"Well whatever, while you were going on about him, I completely zoned out! That's how annoying you and your high pitched voice are!"

Placing a hand over his chest and leaning back for dramatic effect, Jay gasped. "How dare you say that about my voice! It is not that high!"

Cole rolled his eyes and pointed a finger at Jay. "It's so high that I'm sure even the birds outside went deaf, Zap-trap!"

"Why are you so angry at me? I seriously just got here and so did you!"

"I guess your just more annoying then I thought. Not only do you talk a lot, but you're constantly talking about video games and reading comics! I bet you haven't even read a single real book!"

"G-doh! You take that back! I have a read a real book… I just never finished it. Except this one back in 9th grade! It was surprisingly really good, I bet you haven't read it - but that's not the point!"

Cole rolled his eyes. "Guess that just shows I'm more smarter than you!"

"Grr, I am smart!" Jay bit his cheek.

"Are you very sure about that, Zaptrap?"

"Stupid!"

"Jerk!"

"Blockhead!"

"Moron!"

They glared at each other with hard stares, which eventually turned into a staring competition. He'd never had anyone in his life hate him this much before.

The longer they stared, the more Jay began to wonder why they were fighting in the first place. If Cole didn't like him didn't mean he didn't have to not like him back.

This is strange. I didn't come here to make enemies, I came here to make friends… And we'll, get a college degree too obviously. Jay's thoughts continued and it was the only thing Jay was paying attention too at that moment, making him unaware that he was even in a staring contest.

Maybe I could just purposely lose and then try to get on Cole's good side. Jay watched as Cole's face strained to keep his eyes open. He laughed internally and scratched the back of his neck.

Suddenly, there was a knock on the door, causing both teens to blink, ending the staring contest.

The two of them rubbed their eyes and fixed their attention to the door.

You know what song would fit well in this chapter? Well, would fit Cole at least. I dunno if anyone noticed but the title kinda gives it away. What is This Feeling? From Wicked. Ahaha! Let's admit, his hatred for Jay did come on quite fast. XD

About the nicknames, you know I can't help it! I love those nicknames and never thing think they should change. So there ya have it, folks!

Comments are appreciated ^^