A/N: Woo, I've finally made a House of Wax fanfic. Anyways, it's slightly AU I guess, but if you wanna say it takes place pre-HoW (approximately 2 years before) that's fine too. And yes, I'm aware the title sucks, but it was all I could think of.

Summary: College verse… Basically about Carly and Wade's relationship I guess, Paige and Blake appear in pretty much every chapter, and Nick and Dalton will float in occasionally. Pairings: Mainly Wade/Carly, and bits of Blake/Paige.

Disclaimer: I don't own anything.

Carly groaned as her eyes fluttered open, "Oww, my head. Must've been some night…." She moaned while clutching her aching head, while examining her room. 'Time, time, what time is it?' she wondered before glancing at her alarm clock.

"9:52 AM…heh," Carly read aloud. "Wait a minute, 9:52?" Suddenly it dawned on her, she only had thirty-eight minutes to get to class. Carly leapt out of bed and rushed to the bedroom next to hers where Paige was sleeping.

"Paige! Paige wake up! We have class in less then forty minutes!" She exclaimed trying to wake up her friend. The blonde just rolled over in her sleep.

Carly glared at her friend and tried to shake her awake. "Wake up!"

"Just five more minutes…" Paige mumbled.

"We don't have five minutes to spare!" Carly pointed out, not that her roommate was listening to a word she said anyways. Paige continued to snooze soundlessly, so Carly threw up he hands in defeat and headed to the bathroom to take a quick shower.

When she was finished, Carly wasted no time drying herself off; once finished she returned to her room and proceeded to get dressed. In the middle of slipping on her Capri's, Carly noticed Paige walk out of her room and head to the bathroom.

She glanced over at the clock, 10:07. "Now you decide to get up." Carly mused to herself as she slipped on a white halter-top. She headed over to the bathroom and put her ear against the door, she heard Paige running the shower.

Carly knocked lightly on the door. "Paige?"

"Yeah?" Asked Paige's muffled voice.

"Uh, you might want to hurry up with that shower."

"How come."

"Because we only have about eight minutes maximum to start walking and get to class on time."

"What? Why didn't you wake me up earlier?" Paige asked with disbelief.

"I tried to, but you're apparently a heavy sleeper. Anyways, are you halfway done showering?"

"No, I just started. Well, the good thing is we don't live too far away from school."

Carly sighed, true they didn't live far, but it took them a while to walk there since neither owned a car. "Well, take five minutes at most, and when you're done, immediately dry off and change, no moisturizer, no time for make-up, no time for hair, we leave once you're dressed." Carly stated in a tone of voice that said 'no questions asked, just do it.'

"No breakfast?" Paige whined.

"None,"

"Fine." Paige answered stiffly.

"Great, now I guess I should grab you bag and such."

"Please do."

And without another word Carly left Paige to resume her showering in peace and began to search for hers and Paige's bag while making sure they had their supplies and such, along with slipping on a pair of converse.

Paige came out of the shower a few minutes later with a towel wrapped around her frame as she headed to her room to change into her clothes, a pink tube top and denim mini skirt with wedges.

"Ready?" Carly asked.

"Did I mention I hate school?" Paige asked.

"You just did."

"Yeah, now we're good to go."

And with that the two girls left the apartment and began to walk to college.

"Would you hurry up please Paige, it's almost 10:30." Carly was a few feet ahead of her friend who kept slowing down on account of her shoes.

"You know what, today was not a good day to wear wedges." Paige declared quickening her pace.

"I could've told you that." Carly laughed.

"Why do you want to go to class today, literature is so boring." Paige wondered.

"In the immortal words of Nick, I'm the 'good twin' remember."

"True, but what does Nick have to do with it?"

"Never mind,"

"Speaking of Nick, have you seen him lately."

"Nope, now lets not talk about my brother, 'kay?" Carly answered seriously.

Paige fell silent and walked beside her friend in silence for a bit until Carly spoke up.

"I didn't mean to kill the conversation you know."

"You didn't, I'm just hungry…" Paige complained.

Carly bit her bottom lip realizing that she too was famished. "Well, if we had waken up earlier then we could've had something…I wonder why my alarm clock didn't go off in the first place, I mean, you did set it before we left right?" She asked the blonde.

"About that…" The blonde started.

"Paige…" Carly began.

"Yeah, well, I sort of forgot, but it's not my fault, Blake practically dragged me out of the room before I had a chance to set it…"

"And you didn't tell me because…?"

"Blake made me forget."

"You mean 'distracted' you by smothering you with kisses right?"

Paige thought for a moment, "Yeah, that sounds about right."

Carly let out a small wistful sigh with a smile, "Ah, love. Wonderful thing."

"Of course it is, and you know what, I'm going to find you someone later this week." Paige said happily.

"Wha? You're going to fix me a blind date?" Carly was dumbstruck, she knew Paige was trying to help, but she always found the idea of hooking up through friends a bit, well, disastrous to say the least.

"Technically no, I'll get Blake to convince the guy to go out with you."

Carly shot her a look with a mixture of shock, amusement, and disbelief. "Look Paige, I appreciate the help, but I can find a date on my own without your–"

"Oh, finally here!" Paige pointed out to change the subject and because it was true, the City College of Gainesville came into view after they made a turn.

"And we are…" Carly glanced at her watch, "…running three minutes late."

"Don't complain it's just three measly minutes." Paige snapped.

Carly shrugged, "True, it beats ten minutes."

When they arrived inside, Professor McCall shot them scolding looks while they let out an apology and took their usual seats in the back next to Blake, while the Professor went back to his usual lecturing.

"Whoa, what happened to you guys?" Blake whispered after examining their appearance. Paige's usually pulled back blonde hair was like a giant frizz ball, while Carly's usually nice and set wavy light brown hair was frizzed and puffy. Blake couldn't detect a smidge of make-up on them either, so their faces looked slightly washed out.

"We look terrible don't we?" Paige asked.

"Well, I wouldn't say terrible…"

"Why thank you."

"Terrible is a bit of an understatement, horrendous sounds more like it." Blake replied while cracking a wise-ass grin.

Both girls glared at the dark man, and Paige playfully punched him, "You're such a great boyfriend." She whispered sarcastically while rolling her eyes.

"I love you too. Anyways, why were you late?"

"Woke up late, because somebody forgot to set the alarm." Carly answered glancing at Paige as she stressed somebody.

Paige just shook her head and gazed at Blake with her beautiful blue eyes, "Well that's because somebody couldn't wait to go clubbing." She said emphasizing on wait and somebody in reference to Blake.

"Whatever, you know you wouldn't have been late if you'd take my offer up on getting a ride."

"I don't think getting a ride or not would've changed the outcome. We woke up late and you probably would've swung by when we woke up and we'd be in our sleeping gear going to school." Carly answered in a matter-of-fact tone.

"Pssh, if I didn't know better, I would've said you guys arrived like you were asleep, like you slept in your day clothes or something."

"Thanks…That makes me feel so much better." Paige replied once more with sarcasm, "Does our hair really look that bad?" she finally asked.

"Yup,"

"I'm never asking for your opinion again," Paige mumbled once again glaring at her boyfriend along with Carly, if looks could kill, chances are Blake would've dropped dead right there and then from the glares he was receiving from the girls.

"Well, you asked for my thoughts, and I told you them, so don't ask if you don't agree with them, don't like them, or aren't the answer you want to here." He stated, which was true, no point in asking for someone's opinion if you don't like it.

Paige crossed her arms and went into pout mode, Blake chuckled lightly in response and kissed her forehead, "I'm kidding, but you know it's true."

"Just don't be so critical when I ask."

"Fine, whatever you say, whatever you say." Blake answered in defeat.

Carly was personally getting a bit of a kick out of the whole conversation, she enjoyed watching Paige and Blake bicker, they did it on a daily basis over nothing most of the time, Carly had a theory they just bickered for the sake of bickering. 'They piss and moan when their not honest enough with each other, and then they piss and moan when their too honest with each other. It's like they can't make up their minds.' Carly smiled to herself.

"What are you smiling about? We look like hags, and that grin only makes you look creepier." Paige suddenly said.

Carly rolled her blue-green eyes at her friend, "You guys are the best friends ever." She answered her voice dripping with sarcasm.

"It today sarcasm day or what?" Blake asked.

"What." Paige and Carly replied simultaneously, and then the two of them went into a small fit of giggles till they caught the Professor glaring at them. The both of them spontaneously down cast their faces, till McCall resumed his lecturing.

Paige tapped the a brunette sitting in front of her, asking if she could borrow her brush, and she indeed lent it to them. When the two girls finished brushing their hair and passed the brush back, they asked Blake how they looked.

"Well you guys defiantly moved up, from unbearably hideous to bearably ugly." Once more, the girls glared daggers at Blake, "I kid, I kid, you gals look fine, the hairs' nice and neat with the exception of it being a bit frizzy."

"That's better," Paige mumbled in a warning tone.

Suddenly another student walked in; Carly, Blake, nor Paige recognized him. He had dark shaggy hair, a decent amount of stubble, he was wearing jeans and a white long sleeved collared shirt, he was quite tall too, Carly assumed he must've been a foot taller than her, 'He's also not bad looking either,' she mentally noted.

Paige nudged Carly in the rib, "Ouch, what?" Carly snapped rubbing her side.

"I've found your blind date." She teased.

Carly, for the millionth time that day rolled her eyes. "Not happening." She declared, she then began to glance around the room, 'Whoever he is, he's going to have to sit somewhere, please tell me there's another open seat besides next to me.'

"Hey Carly, he's going to have to sit next to you." Blake noticed as he began walking towards their direction.

"No, there's got to be another open seat…" Carly's eyes continued to frantically search the room, but only to find no other but the one next to her, she sighed, 'Why me? Why when I look like a mess?' she plead for an answer from someone as the stranger took a seat next to her.

Carly hated where she sat right now, not only because she could hear Paige's many giggles and that she was sitting next to a someone she's never seen before, but in addition to that, she felt short, really short. Paige was maybe a head taller than her, but now sitting next to someone who's a foot taller made her realize how tiny and petite she was.

Paige continued her pointless giggling till the Professor finally called on her, "Ah, Miss Edwards, since you find fooling around back there so much more interesting than my class because you know it all, why don't you tell me, who said 'We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.'?"

Paige sat there with a confused look on her face and pulled lightly on Blake's shirt for an answer. "Err…I don't know sir." Carly sniggered slightly, 'She had that coming to her eventually.'

"I see, well, Miss Jones…"

Carly snapped her attention to Professor McCall.

"Can you tell me who said it then?"

'Oh great, I don't know either,' Carly mentally groaned, "Umm," Carly looked at her friends who were just as clueless as her.

"Sir Winston Churchill," she heard someone whisper to her left.

She looked at the guy sitting next to her out of the corner of her eyes and mouthed 'what?'

"Sir Winston Churchill," He repeated softly to her, Carly shook her head slightly with disbelief, 'Trust me,' He mouthed to her.

"Miss Jones? Do you have an answer or not?"

"Uh, Sir Winston Churchill?" She guessed in a shaky voice unsure of herself.

"Correct,"

"Phew," Carly sighed with relief.

"Now, can you tell me Miss Jones who claimed that, 'It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.'?"

Carly's foot shoved Paige's hoping for an answer, again, since they didn't pay attention, they didn't know the answer.

"Aristotle…" the student to her left whispered lightly.

"Aristotle?" Carly tried, 'Hey, he wasn't wrong the first time, maybe he's right again,' she figured.

"Correct, okay, one more…who said 'Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.'?" The Professor quoted.

"Robert Frost…" Carly's neighbor on her left mumbled through the corner of his mouth.

'He better be right again…' "Robert Frost," She answered with confidence.

"Correct again, and look at that, class is already done, you're dismissed." He dismissed himself along with the students.

When Carly was finished packing her bag, she realized that Blake and Paige disappeared with the rush of the other students, only two people left in the room were her and the student that was helping her.

'Alright Carly, you can do this, just say thanks and that you appreciated his help and bolt.' She went over it again and again in her mind; she figured she should thank him because it was nice of him to get her out of the hot seat.

"Uh hi," She said in a timid voice trying to get his attention.

He spun around and locked his gaze with hers, "Oh, hey," He greeted.

"Umm, not that I didn't appreciate the help and all, but, why did you give me those answers?" She asked in a small voice, 'Oooh, damn it Carly, I was suppose to say 'thank you' and leave, and I've managed to screw that up too, why can't I do anything right today?' She mentally kicked herself.

"I don't know, I guess it's because I know what it's like to be in the hot seat and answer wrong and you get embarrassed and those looks from the Professor, and I suppose part of it's because I'm a nice guy." He explained with a small shrug.

Carly bit her lower lip in thought, "Well, then why didn't you help my friend Paige?" She asked purely out of curiosity, 'Great, now I feel like I'm interrogating the poor guy.'

"Well, I'd rather her be embarrassed and receive a few of those glares from the Professor then get her in trouble from me giving her answers."

"But you gave me answers," Carly protested, 'Wait, why am I fighting with him?'

"Yeah, but, don't you think it'd be more noticeable if I had to say the answers to her instead of being able to whisper them like I was to you? She was only a seat away, but she couldn't hear me whispering, unlike you, as to where you right next to me."

"Hmmm, good point. So are you new or what, because I don't think I've ever seen you around campus." Carly asked the inevitable question while gazing into his gorgeous dark brown puppy dog eyes.

"Don't flatter yourself, I haven't seen you either, and no, I'm not new, I just had a schedule change."

"Really," Carly asked acting a bit interested, "What for?"

"Conflicting times, it used to either be too early or too late." He answered.

"And 10:30 doesn't qualify as 'too early'?" Carly asked letting out a few laughs.

"Nope. I'm Wade by the way," He introduced while extending his hand.

"Carly," She introduced herself while grabbing his hand and shaking it. "Well, I guess I'll see you around…Wade." Carly said coolly when letting go of his hand and departing the class to search for her friends.

Wade smirked to himself, "Till next class I suppose."

A/N" Woot, the chapter turned out longer than I expected lol, I didn't plan on having Carly and Wade interact till later, but, I'm happy with it.

BTW does anyone know what kind of car it was Wade drove in the movie? I know Blake drove an Escalade, but Wade's car confuzzles me, then again, I suck with cars in general. Anyways, please review; tell me what you think, and if you know what the car was, add that in too (all I know is that it was red, 15 inch fan belt, and it was a 'shot-wheels' according to Dalton lol).