It's the night before I leave for Berkeley, I won't lie, I'm nervous as hell and I can't sit still. I'm currently outside walking my brother's dog shadow, I reach into my pocket and pull out my cell phone. My fingers find the name I'm looking for and I hit the green send button. Four ringers later I'm connected and her voice comes over my end.

"Hey, what's goin on?"

"Nothing, I'm leaving for Berkeley tomorrow."

"Really, it's gonna be good to see you."

"Why would you see me Sum?" I ask as I pace back and forth in my backyard.

"I didn't tell you? I'm not going to Sacramento, my papers got screwed up and now I'm gonna go to a community college in San Francisco and I'm living with Marissa." She managed to get that all out in one breath.

"Oh, well we should get together some time then."

"Yeah, for sure. Call me tomorrow and we'll hang out. I work 'toil 6 but after that I'm ok."

"Alright, I'll call you when I get settled."

"K bye."

I hit the red end button and my phone read call ended. I headed back into my house to finish packing and try to get some sleep.

The next morning came and surprisingly I had a restful night. My parents drove me to the airport and said their goodbyes, we were never too close so it was short and to the point, dad did choke up though.

On the plane I had time to think about the things that had changed, I was going away to college, Ryan had moved to Texas with his mother and I was going to be in Marissa Cooper's home. I barely had time to contemplate starting a real friendship with Marissa when the plane landed. In a daze I got off the plane and into the taxi.

When I arrived at Berkeley people were going insane. People were lined up to receive their keys, parents were frantic to unload all of their children's possessions. At that point I was relieved that my parents and I had made the drive up here weeks earlier in order to get me settled. I grabbed my one suitcase and quickly walked to my building and up to my room. As I was unpacking my first, I had two, roommate entered. Melody was slightly taller than me and was a red head. I knew that her and my other roommate were from near here and were also good friends. Small talk soon ensued and time went by quite slowly. After about a half hour my other roommate came, Jennifer was a blonde who was shorter than me. Jen was more outgoing and crazy than Melody but they both reminded me of friends from back home.

After about 3 hours there I was more or less unpacked and ready to do something. I quickly realized that my roommates had their own friends and unlike most people who were new to the area we would not become instant best friends. Once again I found myself making a phone call to Summer. After 4 rings she picked up the phone.

"Hey, how's it goin?"

"Good, I'm bored though."

"Why don't I pick you up."

"It sounds good. I have a meeting at 10 can you get me back by then."

"Maybe, I might kidnap you all night."

"Yeah, ok."

I gave her directions to my dorm room and got ready to go out. She called when she was on my street and I began to walk out to meet her. Once I got in the car she squealed in excitement as girls do gave me a hug and began to drive. We arrived at their apartment complex and walked up the stairs into their apartment. Marissa wasn't home from work yet so me and Summer began to catch up. About an hour after we arrived a friend of hers Chris got their, he even came baring Banana Cream Pie.

I was comfortable enough with them to inform them of the predicament I was in; I informed them that I was scared of telling my roommates I was gay.

It was 9:30 when Summer started to make me food.

"Sum, I have a hall meeting tonight in half an hour."

"I have a feeling you wont get back in time." Said a laughing Chris.

After this left his mouth I heard the doorknob turn. Soon in walked in Marissa she saw me then gave me a hug that I would learn to love and hate.

"Summer's cooking?" She asked.

"Something wrong with that?"

"No, I just thought Lex would want to see tomorrow."

"I'm not that bad!"

"Should I be scared?" I was not eying the food on my plate.

"I don't know, just take a bite." I could tell Marissa was trying to hold back her laughter.

After the laughter subsided and I choked on my food I could tell that I wasn't gonna go back to UCB anytime soon. I finally finished my rubber taco and we sat down to watch Friends which Summer had on DVD.

I eventually said my goodbyes to Marissa and Summer and Chris drove me home. When we arrived at UCB they came into the dorm to meet my roommates and see my home. To my amusement I got Chris to tell my roommates I was gay and they took it well. We made plans to meet up again and Summer made me promise to call her next time I was hungry. I knew that if I kept hanging around Marissa I would not be able to hold off on having impure thoughts about her. I tossed and turned that night hoping I could survive college.

AU- Thx for all the comments PLEASE keep it up, this was just an intro on how they started hanging out so much cuz trust me they will be spending A LOT of time together. Since this is based on my life I cant really show things from Marissa's point of view since I only have Alex's point of view but trust me you'll be just as confused by Marissa's intentions as Alex and I are.