Peach Creek University. A college for exceptional students, at least that's what it says on the brochure. To be honest, it was a miracle that Ed and Eddy got in. Double Dee got in with a recommendation with the principal's aid. It wasn't the best university, yet it wasn't the worst either.
There were about six buildings in total. He numbered them when they were on the campus tour. They were spaced as 4 buildings making a square, 1 in the middle, and 1 behind the middle in-line with the back row. The middle was HQ, the office, etc. The first building on the right, and the first building on the left were the government buildings (sorted out as G1 G2 and G3), if he was correct, which held classrooms for all sorts. The second building on the left and on the right were the dorms. The building in the back middle was a mixed of the cafeteria and the gym. Edd was appalled by how big that last building was.
It was now the end of the moving-in week for college. Edd got the majority of his stuff inside his dorm, but still needed to get more things in the following week. He met his roommate that Monday. His roommate's name was Ted Montgomery, but people call him Teddy. Teddy was a 5'11 latino basketball player with lean muscles, brown eyes, and wavy/curly hair that could be classed as good bed hair. He was a sophomore in college. They paired up most freshmen with more experience at PCU to let them learn first-hand and second-hand.
"Once again I thank you for helping me move my stuff. My boyf-.. Uhm.. friend is outside helping me get the rest out of the car."
"Well I'm pretty sure he wouldn't mind me helping you sort things out." His latino accent clear with his words. It was smooth as though he can speak english more fluidly than spanish.
"Yea it's ok, boo. Also, i got the rest of the stuff out of the car. When do you want me to get the rest of the stuff from your house?" Wolfe placed the things down by Edd's bed that was a little larger than a twin bed.
"We'll go more next weekend. By the way, Wolfe this is Ted, Ted, Wolfe.." Edd greeted the two.
"You can call me Teddy" He shook Wolfe's hand and proceeded to help them get the stuff out of the boxes.
After all was out of the car and put away, Wolfe said his goodbyes with a too long for friendly hug with Edd, and he had to clear his throat to let Wolfe know that he was clinging to him.
"Yea sorry, I'm gone. Nice to meet ya Teddy." The only sound left was the door quietly closing.
Edd looked back to their adjoined rooms. It was fairly big for roommates. As soon as you opened the door it was the living room adjoining little kitchen and a small hallway with the bathroom in the middle, Teddy's room on the right, and Edd's on the left.
"I'll let you get a feel to the room. I'm going out with some friends. Be back later." Teddy said already out the door.
Edd opened his mouth to reply, but it was too late. He sighed and started adjusting to his new home for 4 years.
Ed and Eddy came over to see how his "new dig", as Eddy would put it, came along. Double Dee's room was on the 6th floor. There were 10 floors in the dorm buildings.
"It's already too clean in here. I can smell the lysol and bleach in the hallway." Eddy put his fingers over his nose. "Should've expected that from the neat freak." He playfully said.
After friendly exchanges were casted, they all went over to Ed's room next. His room was on the 8th floor. His roommate was already in the room on his laptop.
"Sup Bryan." Ed announced as he shoved the door opened revealing everyone to his room.
"Do you have to scream so loud?" Bryan asked, rubbing his ears. He was about 5'10, pale skin, and lithe with dark brown eyes. Turning around he sees the company and clears his throat. "Sorry, I thought it was just you. Hello everyone, my name is Bryan. Nice to meet you." He said fixing his glasses on his face.
"Can I call you four-eyes?" Eddy joked, getting elbowed by Double Dee.
"Sorry about that, Bryan. My name is Eddward Vincent with two D's, everyone calls me Double Dee for short. It's a pleasure to meet you." He brought out his hand.
Bryan got up and shook it. "I know who you guys are. Ed here hasn't stopped talking about you guys since we met last week." Smiling, he went back to his work. "Sorry to cut you off so soon, but even though this is the start of the year for you guys, it still means work for me." He went to his room with laptop and closed the door behind him.
"He is a graphic designer, has a project coming up and he needs every moment of his free time to complete it." Ed explained as they went and looked around his room. Posters already splattered everywhere of Chick'NZ the rock band, and celebrities. Looks similar to Ed's old room.
"Alright, time for the bachelor's suite." Eddy chimed in while Ed and Double Dee were talking about one of the posters. He grabbed the two by their wrist and dragged them to the 3rd floor.
Eddy's room was the same size as theirs. It was only differentiated by the colors everyone had. Also, a mixture of things placed accordingly. To Eddy though, it was a masterpiece. Posters placed on one side of the wall, while the other handled nothing. "I want that side to be the clean side." he said looking at the emptiness of it.
A knock was heard as they were exiting the room. Eddy motioned for the door figuring it was maybe his roommates. And that he was.
"Wassup Pipsqueak?" a deep voice boomed as he entered. "Why you didn't tell me you were having guests over?"
Eddy scoffed and removed his roommates hand from over his neck. "I thought you were going to be gone all day dickhead."
Ed and Double Dee watched the exchange with mild amusement. They never knew Eddy could make another friend besides them two.
"Guys this is Trent. Trent the taller one is Ed." Ed greeted him. "And the beanie boy is Double Dee." Double Dee greeted himself as well.
"The name's Trent Washington. Nice to meet ya!" He exclaimed. "This is my second year here, so I can probably help you guys around." Trent was a 6'1 athlete with hazel skin and hazel brown eyes.
Edd noticed he is a bit hyper active. "Do you by any chance play any sports?" He asked, motioning from his doing push ups in the middle of the conversation.
"Yea, on the basketball team. I'm the next co-captain when the seniors go pro." He said as he got up to do jumping jacks. "People call me Hype Man sometimes cause I always be doing something involving exercising."
Edd agreed wholly. "I can understand the term."
"I want to join the football team, maybe I can train with you sometimes?" Ed asked a little to hyped as well. Doing mini jumping jacks with Trent.
"Sure, you can come to our practice if you're so interested too. I'll let coach know. What's your name again?"
Ed told his name again, and suggested that they all get each other's numbers. After all was done, everyone went back to their rooms. Edd got to his room and heard voices coming inside. He could've sworn he heard a VERY FAMILIAR voice intertwined with his roommates.
He opened the door to see his roommate and a person with fiery red eyes chatting and on the playstation in the mini living room. The red eyes looked up and noticed Edd first. The eyes resembled shocked, but as soon as it showed it left.
"Well well well" The red eyes boy smirked.
Edd was startled at the other's appearance. He hasn't seen him ever since.. "H..Hello roommate Teddy. I'll be in my room if you need me." He then fast-walked to his room, ignoring Kevin's greetings and attempts to grad Edd's hoodie.
'He sure does have school spirit. That hoodie shows it all.' Kevin thought to himself, watching Edd retreat to his room. 'It's on the left-'
"Do you know him? He seems a little weird, but he looks cool." Teddy asks as he was still paying attention to the game.
Kevin cleared his throat and said, "Mhm, I know that dork."
It was a windy night, the morning of move-in day. Trees bristling as two boys were walking to their destination. One of the boys wore a lime green hoodie, matching his hair, while the other wore a blazing red hoodie, matching his hair also. The green hoodie spoke up.
"Are we there yet?"
"No, stop asking me every two minutes!" The red hoodie said, obviously annoyed.
"-But it's cold, good thing we brought our hoodies." The green hoodie replied. He pressed closer to Kevin, shoulder to shoulder.
They were walking for about half an hour in the midst of downtown until Kevin abruptly stopped.
'We're being watched'
He suddenly whipped his head around to look at an alley they just passed up across the street. As soon as he noticed the gun holsted in the air, he grabbed Nat and took cover.
*POP* *POP* *POP*
Wait.. The gunman shot around them, not at them. Those were..
"Warning shots." Nat supplied, breathing hard as ever.
"Come on Kevin and Nat. I don't have all day. Just play nice and we can get this over with."
"That was.." Nat looked over wall.
"FUCK!" Kevin whispered.
In the five hours that passed, Edd decided to hook up his game system and seen if his friends were on. Of course they were on. Eddy invited him to a party with him and Ed in it and they all got on GTA V.
Double Dee made his character look like him as possible as he could. His signature beanie on his head, blue eyes, and taller than Eddy but shorter than Ed.
They were in the middle of a heist when Edd felt eyes on the back of his head. He turned around while shooting some villains and met those red eyes again.
"Haven't you heard of knocking?"
"I have, but why knock when you know said person?" Kevin retaliated. He walked in and closed the door to Edd's persistence.
You could hear Eddy asking Edd what's going on, and why isn't he shooting people.
Edd chose to ignore his mic and talk to Kevin, insisting on why is he in his room.
"I came to say goodbye." Kevin said.
"Well, I bid you farewell." Edd supplied. He noticed that Kevin wasn't motioning to leave so he continued.
"Do you need something else Kevin?" He asked as Kevin just sits and watch Edd play the game.
"You know, you never added me on the game yet. I have a PS4 too." Kevin said as he pointed towards the game.
Edd pondered and remembered back at Grad Night, that he said he would add Kevin. "My apologies, what is your name on it so I could add you?"
Kevin motioned for the controller, and Edd gave him it. Their fingers touched but Edd quickly pulled away. After all these weeks, he still sort of kind of feel intimidated by Kevin. Kevin put in his name on the playstation and gave the controller back. He said his farewell and left Edd in the room back to his game.
As soon as Edd got back to the game, he was bombarded with messages from Eddy and Ed asking where was he. All he could do was send a picture of him being idle for too long so he was disconnected.
He walked out of his room to see if Kevin really left. He was met with only Teddy sitting on the couch watching some football game.
"I never would've guessed you watched football." Edd said as he approached him.
"Yea, I play basketball, but I also like to watch football from time to time." Teddy then got up and started going towards the door. "But they are losing, so I think I'll go see how my friends feel about the game. I'll catch ya later."
He sure is a hyperactive person. That must be the personality of all the athletes here. Even trent is hyperactive.
This is going to be a pretty interesting year at PCU.
It was now 5:47 am on Monday on the second week of school. Last week was move-in week so classes start the following week. Classes start in an hour, so Edd had enough time to make breakfast and read a book.
"I believe eggs, bacon, and an orange would be suitable for today's events." He made his way to the kitchen to find Teddy in nothing but pajama-pants drinking some orange juice.
Teddy spotted him and waved at him, downing his OJ. "'Morning Edd."
"Good morning, Teddy. Didn't know you wake up early as well."
"You learn something new every day." Teddy gave a smile and walked towards the couch. "Lemme see your schedule so I can compare and make a timesheet for the room."
Edd agreed that it sound reasonable and gave him the schedule.
"Okay, this works out better than my last year's roommate." Teddy said. He gave the schedule back and made an electronic schedule on their college pages and handmade to put it on the fridge.
Teddy then went into his room, grabbed some jogging pants and headed to the door. "Well, I'm off to practice. My first class start at 8, but coach wants us at the gym by 6." With that, he opened the door but stopped as Edd was calling out to him.
Edd hesitated for a moment, "I.. Uhm.. Just you let you know.. I feel the need to tell you so just in case it won't be weird with us around each other and you making assumptions."
"Go on.." Teddy told as he stopped in the doorway.
"I… I'm…" Edd was struggling, this is probably his first time coming out to someone out of his circle.
"You're what?"
"Gay."
There was short silence. Blue eyes looked up to see brown eyes staring back. Said eyes grew a smirk on his face.
"It's no biggy bro. That must means you like what you see?" He gestured smirking towards him moving his pecs as he was walking out the door backwards.
"Mm mm. Everyone's a tease. Yet, it went better than I expected." Edd said.
After all was said he grabbed the eggs and bacon from out of the fridge and made his way to the electric stove. He thanked whomever idea it was to buy minimum groceries for all of the dorms.
He cut the stove on and and grabbed the necessities. He cracked 6 eggs and and put 5 pieces of bacon on the stove. He knew it was too much, but he knows that in three… two… one…
*KNOCK KNOCK*
That was the reason.
He opened the door and greeted Ed and Eddy. They came in with schedules in their hands. Eddy snatched Edd's schedule from off of the small coffee table and scanned over it as Edd made his way back to the kitchen.
"I was going to say Dee you've been sneaking around with some boy since he was running out of your door with nothing but joggers on, but forgot that it was your roommate."
"Ha ha, very funny Eddy" Double Dee said, causing Eddy and Ed to laugh. "I knew I should've kept my sexuality a secret, and now Teddy knows."
"How did he take it?" Eddy asked half paying attention to him and the schedule.
"I would say it took it well." Edd said as he took out 3 glass cups.
"Shit we only have 2 classes together, and that's only on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays." Eddy exclaimed.
"That's only for this semester though, Eddy. Maybe next semester." Double Dee ensured.
"Who are lumpy and I supposed to cheat off of now? We are literally in every class, everyday." The shorter teen whined.
"At least we don't have to meet new people as much as you do. You'll have to make friends in each class. I heard you'll never make it through college without a few new friends." Ed chimed in already salivating over the bacon.
"It's almost done Ed, don't worry. Just watch tv or something until then." Double Dee suggested seeing the big boy. "To add to your friend theory about college, there's no need to worry about that. I'm pretty sure I have it all under control."
The big boy obliged and went over to Eddy sitting on the couch. They watched some kiddy morning show until Eddy got bored of it and changed to Animal Planet. Double Dee has gotten into him over time, but he only likes watching the animals survive and fighting it out. By the time the cheetah caught the gazelle, the food was done and Edd brought over the plates and sat the coffee table.
"So have you guys talked to your significant others since college started?" Edd ask making conversation.
"No. Sophie doesn't want to talk to me right now. We're arguing over something but it'll eventually pass. I hope.." Ed respond through talking while his mouth is full.
"Wait 'til you're done swallowing Ed."
"That's what she told me one ti-"
"Ed. Not like that you beast. I meant about your food." Edd said causing Eddy to burst out laughing.
"Yo doofus. What do you and that princess be doing when we're not around? Ba ha ha." Eddy was choking on his food from all of the laughing.
"We-"
"It was rhetorical Ed. Refrain from answering that question." Edd interrupted causing Eddy to laugh more.
"Well mister fancy pants, how about you and Nazz? Why did you two break up?" Double Dee asked to get Ed off the spotlight.
Eddy stopped and straightened up thinking about Nazz. "I don't know.." He started to think back. "We've come to a mutual understanding. You know how I was head over heels for her back in our younger days?" He waited for them to not. "It's not I knew I've always wanted it, but as soon as I got it. It's not wh-"
"What you've expected." Ed finished.
"Yea. So we decided to end things but still be friends." Eddy made a face but they couldn't read it.
"I'm sorry Eddy. I didn't know." Edd tried to apologize but Eddy blew it off saying it's not his fault. He decided to change the subject and talk about their classes.
Once everyone was finished eating, Ed and Eddy headed out first to go get stuff from their room sand go to class. Edd was left with 20 minutes left to get to class. He knew where the class was so he decided to get dress, grab his essentials, and go to the classroom to get a seat early and don't have to bother with all the eyes on him if he was late.
He sat in the second-to-last row far right, feeling he would be content over there. That way he wouldn't put off a 'weird' vibe. He checked his phone to have a text message from Wolfe asking how are the classes going. He texted back that they haven't even started yet.
He received a message two minutes later saying it was for future preferences, but he answered too quickly. They texted until he noticed people were filling up in the room. First room was English. Thank goodness it was the first class, it can get a little boring at times. That is, until he noticed someone arriving fashionably late.
It was Kevin.
And there was only one seat left.. It was to his right.