I'm back~

Ciel had gotten to the opening ceremony with perfect timing. Much to his surprise, he had enough time to find someone to sit with and find seats that were together. Of course he didn't willfully go with these people he 'found'. He smiled and played nice, but when he went to walk away, they stopped him and asked him if he wanted to sit with them. (more than a little forceful) Thankfully he had only gotten there about five minutes before the Principle of the school, Miss Victoria, started speaking so they had little to no time for pleasantries.

He had a place to sit (even if he was forced to sit in that particular seat) and his arrival time left little to no time for him to have a conversation. That was perfect timing.

Although Ciel was an overall serious student, he had paid little to no attention to the principal's speech. He was just day dreaming. About nothing in particular. About not being there, about reading a good book, or even about wandering around in a beautiful garden filled with roses. He just didn't really want to be there and had little choice in the matter. He could have gone to any of the schools in England. America was so far away from home. So inconvenient.

Willoughby, Ohio was south of England, so it was a bit warmer? The weather was still absolutely awful, everyone was either pale (like Ciel) or orange with a fake tan (that was hopefully getting out of style soon). Ciel could predict that the sky was going to be overcast right now, due to the fact that lake effect seemed to be a popular word among weather forecasters. No one could really blame people for getting fake tans. In the end, they weren't really that bad. Where they? That was the line of thought his mind had wandered down when someone he had been sitting next to called his name for the second time, finally gaining his attention.

"Yes?" Ciel looked up and smiled at the tan boy (with a natural tan).

"Our dorms are adjacent to each other's, correct?" Another boy with the same tan asked.

"Um… What number is your room again?"

The boy laughed, "dorm 667."

"Ah yes, we are heading the same direction." Ciel smiled even though he was mentally cursing his bad luck.

"We had little to no time to introduce ourselves." One of them laughed, running his hand through his wavy purple hair that reached his shoulders. "Call me Soma~"

"Prince Soma Asman Kadar." The other boy formally introduced Soma before introducing himself. "I am Agni, pleasure to meet you."

"Ciel Phantomhive." Ciel wasn't really interested at the moment. He wanted to get back to his room and relax until the club met today (he assumed he still had to go).

"Ciel what club are you joining? We haven't picked yet~ wouldn't joining a club together be fun?" Soma smiled, his perfect white teeth almost blinding Ciel as they walked outside and into the sun that was still low in the morning sky.

"I… haven't decided either." Ciel lied smoothly to avoid any humiliation.

"Ciel!" A voice called from nowhere.

Great. What now?

"S-Sebastian? What are you doing here? Aren't you in a class right now?" Ciel looked around to see the courtyard full of people, but he didn't know if they were only freshman or not.

"In between classes," He smirked and looked around, seemingly uninterested in anything in particular. "Who are your friends?"

"Um… This is Agni and Soma." Ciel motioned to each in time with their name.

"Prince Soma Asman Kadar." Agni formally introduced him again.

"Ciel you think of us as your friends already?" Soma looked rather overjoyed and Ciel wondered how anyone could be that hyper and excited about everything all the time.

"Uh…" When did Ciel forget how to talk? He frowned a bit, angry at himself for making himself look stupid. Soma took that as a yes and hugged Ciel all the way back to the dorm rooms. All the while Agni and Sebastian where talking about this and that, genuinely seeming to get along.

"This is our dorm." Agni pointed to the door next to Ciel and Sebastians.

"Ah, how convenient. This is ours, number 665." Sebastian pointed out.

Soma stopped and looked puzzled for a moment. "Why does it go 665 then 667? Isn't that skipping 666?"

"It is considered bad luck, the number 666." Sebastian smirked.

"Because it is the number of the 'beast'. I can't say I understand the reasoning. 7 is a perfect number, so the number 6 is almost perfect, but has flaws. So 6 is meant to represent humans." Ciel added as he shrugged, not interested in the reason at all. Not even interested enough to notice the slightly larger gap between his dorm and Soma's.

"Of course Ciel knows" Sebastian purred.

"Ciel you are so smart~" Soma hugged him again.

"Yet it doesn't make sence to me" Ciel sighed. "Sebastian go to class. You wouldn't want to be late would you? Soma and Agni, have you met the rest of the people in your room?" Ciel tried to get them to do something other than talk to him.

Sebastian just smiled and said his goodbyes to Agni before ruffling Ciel's hair and leaving. Agni excused himself to his dorm, and Soma followed Ciel into his dorm. It had almost worked.

"Ciel where are you from?" Agni had inquired within 3 minutes of going into Ciel's neat little room.

"A town just outside of London, England."

"Ah, I am from Bengal. It is a beautiful place so far from here." He smiled fondly. "It is way warmer there than it is here. How is England's climate?" Soma desperately tried to keep a conversation only to end up talking about weather patterns in England.

"Cold. It rains quite a bit as well." Ciel looked at Soma with a frown. "Not much different from here. Although less people have fake tans."

Soma laughed. "When they look orange?"

"Yeah" Ciel smiled "Aren't they kind of-" The door opened to their dorm and Ciel stopped talking for a moment.

"Hello?" Soma peeked his head out of the door to see two guys walk through the dorm entrance.

"Oi, are you that Phantomhive guy?" One of them, tall with blond hair, a slight stubble and green eyes asked.

"Nope! I'm his friend from next door! Soma, nice to meet you."

"Hi!" A boy that was much shorter smiled and waved at him. "I'm Finny."

"Ciel come meet your fellow dorm people!"

"Dorm mates is the correct term in England." Ciel corrected with a sigh as he got off his bed and walked to the door to say hi.

"I am Bardroy, call me Bard if yeh like."

"I'm Ciel, pleasure to meet you Bard and Finny." Ciel smiled then closed his room's double doors on all of them. Soma just shrugged it off and spent the rest of his time having a conversation with Finny while Bard played with matches at his window in his room. Every bedroom in the campus had at least one window.

Time had passed quickly with Ciel reading and before he knew it, it was lunch time. Only 12:30, but three hours away from club meetings. He would have called Elizabeth if it wasn't 5:30 there. She was probably about to eat. Nothing to do, Ciel actually thought about going to the cafeteria for lunch with Soma, Agni, Bard, and Finny just to distract himself as the club time was getting closer. He actually would have gone with them if Sebastian hadn't stepped in.

"Ciel and I need to talk." Sebastian smiled and talked them out of it with the promise that they would both come with them tomorrow.

"So, what did you want?"

"Your help. It's important." Sebastian said with an amused grin on his face.

"Ok, with wha- …. Is that all you eat?" Ceil stopped mid-sentence to scrutinize Sebastian's eating habits. Sebastian looked down at the toast he was holding in his hand.

"Not always," he shrugged, "at least I don't douse it in sugar like you probably do with everything."

"What if I only do that with toast?"

"If you are weird enough to do it with toast, then you are weird enough to do it with anything." Sebastian answered simply before spreading some peanut butter on his toast.

"Ok fine. I do it with a few other things… Now what did you need?"

Sebastian grinned mischievously.