The following Sunday, Edd gets up from reading at his desk and announces that he's headed out to go wander the campus in order to figure out where all his course buildings are before the semester starts.

Kevin watches him for a moment. Edd pulls out his schedule and campus map before putting on his shoes. He's closing the door behind him when Kevin suddenly shouts, "Wait! I'll join you!"

Kevin hadn't realized he'd actually spoken until Edd turns around and looks at him, blank-faced.

"I mean… uh… if you don't mind…?"

"No, not at all!" Edd says, grinning.

Kevin grins back despite himself, and soon finds himself pulling on his shoes and rushing the few steps across the dorm room to catch up.

"Thanks man. This is actually kinda smart, scoping out the place prior."

Edd just nods, but Kevin can see his ears turning pink. Man, an indirect compliment like that was enough to get him to start turning pink? I wonder how red he'll get if I give him a real compliment, telling him exactly what I think of him.

As they head towards the main student union hall, Edd looks over and says, "I'm not sure how long they plan on keeping me in the room before my original dorm room is cleaned and fixed up, but I do hope we can get along until then."

"Uh… yeah. I'm sure we'll be fine. You seem as laid back as I am, and tidier, so there shouldn't be a problem."

Edd gives him a small smile before returning to his map.

Kevin realized that he had managed to forget that Edd is only there temporarily. He wasn't even supposed to be Kevin's roommate at all. He can't decide if having Edd here, in his room, all shy and polite and adorable is a blessing or a distraction. Right now, it's definitely a distracting blessing.

As they approach an older building with dark brick, Kevin recognizes the building's name, and looks to his schedule. "Hey, my math class is here."

"Same!" Edd says.

Kevin bumps into the side of Edd as he leans over to see his class schedule.

"Calculus 2? Are you serious?"

Edd nods. "I got credit for calc 1 in high school. I'm a little excited to see what calc 2 brings."

Kevin feels his body start to flush as Edd presses into him to look at glance over at Kevin's schedule pulled up on his phone. "You're in Calculus 1 right now. You're only one class behind."

"Yeah, but I'm not excited by it like you are. I took AP calc in high school but bombed the AP exam. So, I gotta struggle through the class again."

"Well, if you need any help, don't hesitate to ask. I used to tutor math and science classes in high school, so I don't mind at all!" Edd says with a soft smile.

"Choice! I most definitely will take you up on that offer," Kevin replies immediately, causing Edd to grin wider.

Dude's probably excited to go all super-nerd mode and help me with math. Wonder how he'd feel if he knew I only made that comment because I got caught up in thoughts of tutor sessions turning quickly into make-out sessions.

They head to the athletics building to scope out where Edd will have to go for his weight-lifting class. In doing so, they had to cross a four-lane road. Kevin didn't see the significance of it, but Edd was completely thrown by all the highways nearby, and major roads cutting through campus.

"It's so strange to me to see traffic within a college campus. I suppose all the other schools I toured were smaller or just private. They didn't have roads cutting through like this."

"You're not from a city, are you?" Kevin asks as they finally get the light to cross.

Edd shakes his head. "No. I grew up on a small cul-de-sac in the suburbs. My two-story house was one of the largest buildings in the area. Here, it would look pathetic."

Kevin chuckled. "Man, suburbs are weird."

"I'm guessing you're used to city living?"

Kevin nodded. "Though I do have to admit, this is a bit bigger than what I'm used to. But yeah, grew up in a four-story walk-up similar to our dorms, except our building was one of the 'pure' walk-ups, not one of those complexes perched above a bodega or something. Had a skate park and grass lot behind us for the kids, so there was more of a community than a collection of tenants."

"I understood about 80% of what you said, but not all."

Kevin laughed. He explained the terms that confused Edd, and they discussed their home life as they continued to find all the buildings they would frequent in the upcoming semester.

Each time Edd spoke, Kevin would steal glances at him. He tried not to stare too much, but as their campus adventure continued, Edd soon became framed by the colorful light of the sunset.

Kevin kept sneaking pictures until he got a good one, one that had him grinning softly against the dying sun, his cheeks slightly flushed from laughing at a joke earlier.

As Edd went to pick up the last of his books from the campus bookstore, Kevin kept staring at the picture, knowing he was too far gone now. This wasn't a typical Hot Dude Alert moment he was sending to Nazz. Not when he hit saved on the photo, twice, just to be sure. He never did this. This is exactly why they used Snapchat, so that no photos would be saved. But this… this was different.

Shit. I really am infatuated.

He adds their typical "HDA" caption before sending it to Nazz. She immediately replies with selfie of her looking super excited, with text that read, "Where did you find that specimen?"

Kevin sneaks another photo of Edd at the register, purchasing his lab manual for his biology class. He sends it to Nazz with the text, "In my dorm room when he was moving in."

Kevin gets back a video of Nazz shouting, "YOU ARE SO SCREWED, DUDE! SO LUCKY AND SO SCREWED!"

The audio was down but it was still loud enough for Edd to hear something. He looks down at the source of the noise, before looking back up at Kevin, giving a small grin before laughing quietly.

Yup. She's right. I'm so screwed.


A/N: It's no where near ready yet, but I'm going to make a posting schedule for this fic (and others). Once made, you'll be able to find it on .com