Glad to hear that the idea of Phantom at college is cool with a lot of you. Lotte's story will continue, but I'm suffering writer's block for it at the moment. So I'll work on this one for awhile. Besides we need to start on the Raoul bashing sooner or later.

Chapter 2: The Fop

Once the last box was off the cart Erik took it down to the lobby and the two girls waited inside for him. Brittney sat on the floor playing with her hair and Christine was looking around at the things piled on the top bunk.

"It almost feels like he's changed a bit," Christine finally said after picking up a dusty picture frame.

"I wouldn't know. He seems rather normal to me," Brittney said looking up at her and adjusting her glasses that had slipped a bit on her nose.

"You only just met him. He is very calm when he first meets someone, but if you do anything to push him over the edge his moods change so fast, you have no chance of defending yourself."

"Did he ever hurt you?"

"No, but he beat up a kid at our high school, who made fun of his mask. That kid never spoke to Erik again."

Brittney scrunched up her face as if someone had just caused her pain. "Ow! Okay note to self don't piss off Erik if you value your life."

A giggle came from the door and the two of them looked up to see the blonde hair girl from before standing in the door. "Christine I was beginning to wonder where you went." She noticed Brittney sitting on the floor. "Who is your new friend?"

"Meg, this is Brittney. Brittney this is my roommate Meg."

Brittney stood and shook Meg's hand. "Nice to meet you, we were just waiting for Erik to come back."

"Erik? Wait is he the guy from…"

"Yes, Meg. It's the same Erik," Christine said reassuringly.

"What's he doing here? I thought he wasn't going to college. What made him change his mind?"

"I did."

Meg looked at Christine her eyes growing wide. "He followed you?"

"Actually we didn't each other would be coming here. I only convinced him that college would be a good idea."

The three of them smiled and then there came shouting from the hallway.

"Erik!"

"FOP!"

"I told you to stop calling me that," an arrogant voice called out.

The girls looked into the hallway to see Erik standing nose to nose with a boy a bit smaller than him and with blonde wavy hair.

"Raoul!" Christine exclaimed.

"Don't tell me you know him too," Brittney groaned.

"We were childhood sweethearts in middle school."

"I figured as much. Who was your elementary school sweetheart?"

"Didn't have one."

Brittney shook her head and continued to watch the two guys stare at one another, Erik gritting his teeth. Suddenly she noticed they were standing right outside her room. "Damn I'll never get any sleep with those two bickering all the time." She ran down the hall and jumped between them pushing Erik back. "What are you doing? Are you trying to start something?"

"Back off. I have a few bones to pick with this pompous brat."

"How dare you say that? I have every right to call security on you," Raoul shouted.

Brittney tried to push Erik away down the hall, but he got out of her grip and she fell forward onto the floor. She sat up and growled at him. Christine and Meg ran up to her and helped her off the floor.

"I warned you. If you piss him off he gets in a very bad mood," Christine said looking upon the two guys. "They've been fighting over me for years."

"Did you pick one of them yet?"

"It's kind of hard to pick just one, because they're both really sweet and kind when they're not together that is."

Brittney slapped a hand to her face. This was going to be harder than she thought. "Well unless you make a decision these two will make a fuss outside the door every night and I like it when my sleep isn't disturbed."

The guys finally stopped fighting and looked over in their direction. Raoul took the moment to unlock his door and try to hide, but Erik pushed it open when he saw who was sitting inside watching television. "Nadir?"

"Erik my good friend what are you doing here?"

"I'm here for school. What are you doing here and why are you this fop's roommate?"

"I'm stuck with him. As long as he stays on his side I'll be just fine."

Brittney looked in and was so confused. "I never saw you move in."

"Oh, I moved in earlier in the week. I heard you playing your music as you put stuff away. I guess you really like classical music."

"Yeah, it just seems to soothe the soul and makes me want to get stuff done even though I haven't finished putting everything away yet. Though I'm so confused with what is going on that I really don't want to put that stuff away yet."

"Understandable. I myself can't understand why Erik is standing here in front of me when last I saw him he said he wasn't thinking of going to college. Something tells me he changed his mind."

"Christine did. She explained how college would be good for my education and this one seemed to have a good music department." Erik turned to Raoul, who was now looking at the situation at hand. "So why are you here fop?"

"Stop calling me that," Raoul shouted his face growing scarlet with anger. Erik only let out a snort. "If you must know I followed Christine here and I'm looking to go into business and money financing."

"Oh big whoop!" Erik said throwing his hands in the air.

"Erik stop picking on him," Christine warned him shaking her finger..

Erik rolled his eyes and sighed. "Fine, but if he does anything stupid let me know I'll pummel him into the ground."

Raoul yelped and jumped behind the door. Christine grabbed onto Erik's arm and pulled him back. "No, leave him alone."

Brittney knew this was going to be difficult, but soon she got an idea. "Okay I'm no genius or anything like that, but how about we take advantage of free night in the game room and play some bowling? We'll all get rid of some extra energy and then Erik you can play those pieces like you promised. What do you guys say?"

They all looked at one another, then down at her. "Bowling sounds like fun," Meg agreed. "We could play guys versus girls. We have enough players."

Soon everything was decided and after locking up the rooms they raced towards the Centennial Student Union to see which team would be the ultimate winners.

Ha I laugh at the thought of me and my fellow floor mates having a bowling match. Let me know what you think.