Paige and Ellie walked into the dining hall and loaded up their plates with the remains of breakfast hour. Marco sat reading a work copy of "The Perks of Being a Wallflower". Sure enough, a tall stack of pancakes were sitting in front of him.

"Don't start-I've mostly left my three hour prep diva days behind-blame sleeping beauty over here" Paige said.

"Well, lucky for you both that I'm looking out for you" Marco said, giving each girl two pancakes off his stack.

Ellie smiled. Marco and Paige were like the siblings she never had. She had met a lot of people over the last few months but the three of them had the most fun together, whether it was at a poetry reading or the rock concerts Ellie dragged them to. Paige and Ellie's suitemates joked that the three of them should move into together into their own version of "Three's Company".

"Hun, have I told you today that I love you" Paige said, dousing her pancakes in syrup.

"No, but it's a good thing you do so this will be good news-I'm not gong to Toronto after all. Turns out, Jimmy is going to New York on Tuesday for a Parsons interview" Marco said.

"That's amazing!" Ellie exclaimed. She still felt somewhat guilty about turning him down but she was so proud of him.

"Yeah, so there is really no point driving there for only a couple of days" Marco said

"You mean, you've decided against making the trip for the sole purpose of seeing your parents?" Ellie asked.

"Umm, yeah. The Christmas holidays were less than four months ago and that filled up my awkwardness quota until the summer". Marco said.

Marco came out to his father senior year of high school but his father still wouldn't acknowledge the fact. He would up spending most of his vacation at the Michalchuk

house. He and Dylan were still crazy about each other but Marco wouldn't fully commit himself, fearful of being hurt again. He believed Dylan loved him but he just couldn't fully trust him with them living so far apart, especially because Dylan was spending the semester in Europe.

"The thing is, Spinner was also supposed to spend the week at Jimmy's because his house is being renovated and since we didn't really get a chance to hang out over winter break…" Marco said slowly.

"Ok, so what you are trying to say is that you invited Spinner to come to Banting for the week, yes?" Paige said impatiently.

"Well, that is part of it. Since I was supposed to be gone for the week, Will invited his girlfriend up from Montreal and well, lets just say the sock will not be removed from the doorknob for the week". Marco said.

Marco was nervous when it came to pick a roommate, he figured it would be a whole lot easy to get along with one guy than a whole suite of them. He was lucky when it came to Will, he was a good guy although he couldn't stop himself from flirting shamelessly with Paige and Ellie whenever they called or stopped by. His favorite joke was that Marco must really be gay if neither one of them did it for him.

"What is this, a comedy of errors? Are you sure there isn't another twist coming that will lead to me having to sleep in my bed with me?" Paige asked.

"Oh Paige, calm down. This isn't a big deal" Marco said.

"What about Ellie's work? She needs to concentrate". Paige stated, matter-of-factly.

"Actually, he asked me last night and I'm fine with it, pretty much all my work is going to be in the A/V lab during the day and it will be pretty cool to hang out at night since we have the dorm to ourselves" Ellie said.

"You knew about this AND you were all non-chalant about missing the pancakes. I feel so betrayed" Paige pouted.

"It will be fine, you and Spinner parted on good terms" Marco said.

"That's not the point! The point is….this was not the plan!" Paige said.

"Look, if you really aren't ok with this we'll figure something else out but you'll have to tell us why" Marco grinned devilishly.

Paige glanced at Ellie who was waiting with her eyebrows raised expectantly, trying to hide a smile.

"Fine, fine. So I guess you should tell me what he's been up to for the last few months. Did he set the date for his Christian wedding with Saint Darcy yet?" Paige asked.

Marco rolled his eyes with a laugh.

"Well since you resisted asking this long you can wait another few hours and hear his life story from him" Marco said.

"Fantastic" Paige said, stealing Marco's last pancake off his plate. This really shouldn't be a big deal, Marco was right and in some weird way this news thrilled her. She really couldn't tell if she was eagerly anticipating or dreading Spinner Mason's arrival.