To start, thank you to all of you in the reviews and PMs for the support on the previous one-shot! I had no idea what you all would have thought of how everything came together and I am so happy you all enjoyed it! Anyway, I decided to do a little something different this week and so I am going to delve into April and Donatello's daughter Roz's first day of college classes, and maybe something else as well… Enjoy! :D

(Roz's POV)

After making sure I had everything I could possibly need for my first day of classes, which is more than I can say for my roommate who wasn't even awake yet and it's apparently 30 minutes until her class starts.

But, that's not really my problem.

Then again, I've realized no one is really as excited for classes as I am. But, this is the day I've been looking forward to since I was 7. All I have ever wanted to do was go to college and become an engineer like my dad.

But, even I'm still debating on what sort of engineer I want to be since I'm still stuck between chemical and mechanical.

On one hand, I love building and reconstructing electronics like my dad yet I also love experimenting with chemicals. Even though I know my parents would rather me be in mechanical, even if for different reasons.

Dad's is pretty obvious since he's a mechanical engineer himself and mom always got freaked out whenever I conducted chemical experiments for fun in the basement, but I think the fact I never had many successful experiments that usually ended in something exploding or even just me almost lighting myself on fire kind of contributed to that.

But, hey, I have a year or two until I have to decide.

I already had all my routes and mapped out everything mapped out for today and I was already heading out to my chemistry class.

Sure I'd get there about 40 minutes early at this rate, but I still wanted to get there early anyway and maybe I can use the time before to just highlight in my textbook for a little bit.

After finally getting to the chemistry building and I finally got to take a look at the classroom that kind of reminded me of the chemistry classrooms at my old academy that I spent most of my previous education before college at. There were about 15 chemistry lab tables with two chairs each, lab partner tables.

That idea alone made my my stomach twist up in horrifying disgust since I usually would rather do things on my own and knowing my luck I'd probably end up with some undependable moron that'll spend no time doing any work since they'd be more into partying and just shelp it all on me anyway.

But, I decided not to think about that for now as I scanned around the classroom to claim my seat for the semester.

My eyes kept scanning over the seats until my eyes snapped open a little when I realized someone was already in here.

There was this guy with red hair already sitting at one of the front lab tables looking like he was reading his textbook and taking notes. As much as there was a part of me that felt awkward immediately sitting with this guy when all the other tables were open on the first day of class, I also didn't want to take the chance.

After all, based on what I'm seeing now, this guys seems like he'd be a dependable lab partner at first glance since he got here even earlier than I did and also seems studious enough to take notes before class like I do. After all, who knows who I might get stuck with later? I just decided to walk over and I decided to just make conversation and make sure he was okay with it.

"Hey, is this this seat taken?" I asked, until I jumped back a little when I saw him look like he got a little startled or something since he almost fell off his stool.

He got his balance and composure back as he looked at me readjusting his glasses on his face before saying, sounding apologetic and also just genuinely nicer than I was expecting, "Oh sorry, I didn't mean to do that. I just wasn't expecting anyone else to be here this early."

Also, I couldn't help but immediately notice his thick accent that to me sounded like some form of Irish or at the very least British Isles.

But, I just returned the nice gesture as I said, just still trying to make conversation, "Same. I like to come to class early and take notes, but I can see you beat me to that."

I gestured to his already highlighted text book and notebook paper with random equations and facts scribbled on it. He gave me this small, friendly smile as he said, "Yeah, usually I get cast off as a nerd for doing this. But, I just like to keep organized and work ahead."

After he said that I was kind of surprised initially when he stood up and I realized how tall he actually was.

Like he was almost a foot taller than me and that's a lot coming from me since I'm 6 feet tall and am usually used to being taller than everyone else with the exception of my dad and a couple other people. But, this guy was really tall even compared to my dad and everyone.

I was almost so deep in thought but I snapped out of it when I saw him hold out his hand to me as he said, "Well, I'm Kieran. Kieran O'Sullivan."

Even though, as I glanced down slightly I saw the name Kieran O'Sullivan written across the top of this folder he had, so that should've been pretty obvious. But, I just smiled and shook his hand as I introduced myself, "Roz. Well, my real name is Rosalind, but I go by Roz."

After that I took the cue he was okay with me sitting next to him as he sat back down and I took the seat next to him as he said, "Oh, like Rosalind Franklin?"

It sounded like he was just pointing that out for fun, but I was kind of impressed he pointed that out since surprisingly that's not a realization most people have about my name. "Actually yes, my parents named me and my sisters after famous scientists." I pointed out.

"That's actually really cool. Although, it seems like you're more of a Marie Curie appreciator." He said, looking at my shirt.

It was this gag-shirt Marie got me for my birthday last year as just a joke that was yellow with the radiation symbol and 'Curies are RAD' written around it, even though the joke was on her since I loved the shirt.

Also, I can appreciate a good science pun.

I snorted out a laugh before saying, "Well, I can appreciate Marie Curie's work in radioactivity, but this was a gag-gift from my older sister who is incidentally named after her. But to be fair she is kind of like Marie Curie in respect to my brother-in-law. Except just replace scientists with being farmers."

"Oh, my granddad was a farmer, but… not me." He said with a slight laugh and a smile. I just smiled and just decided to ask out of curiosity, "So, where are you from?"

He still gave me this slight smile before saying, "What gave it away? The name or the accent?" "Is both an option?" I asked back, making us both laugh a little about it.

Honestly, this was longest I've talked to someone since my parents left after helping me move in. And believe me, it took forever to get them to finally go since they, mostly my dad, wanted to take so many pictures of me and kept saying how proud he was of me, but I appreciate that.

Also, Kieran seems pretty nice and I wouldn't mind having a friend since all of my old friends have spread to the far corners of the country and me still sticking around New York. Besides I'm in college now so this is my chance to really start on a page and get going in a good direction.

We stopped laughing as I heard Kieran respond, "But, yes, I'm from Ireland to answer your question. I grew up in a very small village in southwestern Ireland but you probably have never heard of it. What about you?"

"I'm from upstate New York, but I could say the same about my town being equally as small and unheard of. To put it in perspective, we have 4 neighbors in our immediate area and my sister married one of them." We both grinned at that as we both kept going back and forth that we barely noticed people progressively packing more and more into the classroom and taking seats.

But, it was pretty crazy since I found out he lived in the floor right below mine in my dorm, which will make meeting up to work on projects and lab reports pretty convenient.

We actually had to stop talking completely when the professor walked in and started handing out the syllabus.

I know this wasn't a lot but I wanted to write a little something just to introduce Kieran as a character and to also introduce Roz's POV so you all could get more of an idea of her character, mainly in a way other than just almost accidently lighting herself on fire. That and I've been feeling slightly nostalgic recently about my first day of classes in college and I wanted to give a certain perspective of it. Just crazy and interesting times of roommates, classes, and finding your fit in a place on campus. For me that place was bowling and karaoke and also staying as far away from the Greek Row Party scene as possible. Haha. I just got some responses of people wanting to see Kieran and Roz, but I wanted to show more of just a casual and pleasant conversation and friendship between them. That and I wanted to show one of my biggest fears... group/partner projects. Haha. Seriously, though, group and partner projects are the worst since I usually always had the 'luck' to be put with the worst people who never did their fair share and I'm sure there are some of you out there who have had these experiences as well in school. But, if you'd like to see how their whole relationship grows and want to see more of them and learn more about them, just say the word and you shall have more one-shots about them! :) As always, thanks so much for reading and constructive feedback is always very appreciated.

Stay Classy and have a wonderful weekend!

Dexter1995