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“Hey Guys, did ya’ll finish packing?”
“in a second edds! i still need to pack my pair of jeans”
”You know, matt, it’d be faster if it didn’t take you 5 steps to prevent them from wrinkling, and the ride will only be 3 hours”
“yea i know but i just don’t want my expensive pair to look like that, and there’s nothing wrong being a little extra”
“you jeans aren’t going to light up on fire if you miss those 4 steps you know”
“ugh, who are you to speak, your bringing susan and your going to be playing drums for football seasons while doing nursing, when will you have time for that guitar?”
“i just want company you know, plus you already receive your dorm with edd.. same room number while i have to pray to Jehova its not my 7th grade middle school ex, she was one crazy person too”
“mm your right, she was absolutely insane.. why’d you even date her? she almost broke edds drawing tablet because he was apparently taking your “bonding” time”
“i dated her because i thought me and her had something special but then she turned into the craziest bitch, the day she found out you were gay and thought you would flirt with me one day behind her back.”
“first of all, Ew your not my type not even close, Second, she already looked crazy just by looking at her scary blue eyes that have absolutely no soul behind them, and she didn’t even brush her hair, looked like a birds nest”
“ oh come on we were all ugly once, and she liked my performance on the band sectionals so i fell in love unfortunately..”
“please the four— i mean three of us, we all dated a lot of girls and guys, well i kind of explored more.. you know wink wink”
“yea i know, plus when you almost said the four of us. He was so stuck up in his fucking fantasies that even girls found him extremely weird, on top they were scared to date a scrawny communist who smoked and got high in the back of the bus”
“well jeez, what a nice way to compliment him”
“im not complimenting that jackass. And i do not wish to see him ever again, he wasn’t even that great to be around with, always blasting heavy metal at 2 in the morning in the summer which i lost sleep just hearing his voice with a mixture of english and norwegian”
Edd stepped in with his arms crossed after waiting for these two to get in the car for the past 20 minutes
“Heyyy, sooo you know our dorms and roommate are waiting for us and classes on top of that the parties and etc. “
“sorry edds, me and tom were just getting shivers talking about the people we do not wish to see”
“yea i don’t want to see you four lustful exes matt and for you tom, that crazy girl with a birds nest on her head as if the hairstyle was even trending, i cannot let anyone go near my precious belongings, my tablet, bacon and colas.”
“yeah yeah, i know gosh y’all have to remind me of that crazy demon every time we speak of people we hate”
The three of them walked with their boxes and suitcases to head off to college, only three hours away, before heading off to college, he dropped ringo off with his mother to keep each other company before heading off.
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3 hours and a few stops at gas stations, they finally arrived and looked out for a person guide and to help them before entering and getting lost. tom hopped out of the car making sure everything was ready to be carried out and in.
Edd entered the office to find someone to help them, meanwhile Matt just fixed and touched up his looks before heading out to help tom carry their items inside
“Guys, meet jan, hes here to help us around campus and make sure to guide us through every hallway and obviously help us find our dorms, especially you tom”
“Hi nice to meet you all, as our fellow Edd here said, I am here to help you all find and remember your hallways and the classes and meet new people!”
“Great so what are we doing first? And glad to meet you, names Tom”
“well Tom, I will first show ya’ll your rooms and then cafeteria and more as we go on, but first your rooms! please gather your belongings in this cart and we will head to our designated room”
The four of them walk around with sparkles in their eyes as they stroll around the hallways looking at art pieces, statues, architectural designs and more. They pass multiple packed and empty hallways with classes taking quizzes. The three of them get a bit distracted looking at chicks and guys almost forgetting they are being guided around
At last, they make it to the dorms were Matt and Edd are already roommates but for tom, he will need to wait patiently who his roommate is as they saw currently weren’t there.
“ah shucks, i guess he isn’t here at the moment, he’ll be here in any hour but please keep in mind tom, he tends to get very aggressive if things he doesn’t like happen, we had to move 6 Students away since he also complained that they wouldn’t get their act together but that’s not the big reason why we moved them... He injured them leaving with a purple eye or broken ribs and nose bleeds”
“what the hell? if this guy is known for that than why me next!? please switch me! just hearing this makes me sweat man..”
“we put you here because we feel like you would defend yourself and maybe change his mind and stop punching for a while and get better at being more nicer”
“better question is why isn’t he kicked out yet”
“the thing is, his family is donating quite a lot of money and also want him to study for at least something”
“rich kid privileges huh”
“right on my dudes”
“okay well thank you, jan. i’ll unpack my stuff now and wait to meet this “nice” guy apparently”
“it was a pleasure, please be safe and keep in touch with your friends since a dorm of three isn’t possible these days”
Jan left ready to guide more new students inside college
For the meantime, Tom unpacked and decorated his side the best he can to at least leave a good impression on his side. After 20 minutes of organizing and emptying boxes he finally decided to head out to the small cafe inside the campus and greet his new professors and his new band director and wait till his roommate comes back to get to know each other
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After a good hour of learning his classes and hanging around with Edd and Matt, he went back to his dorm to rest and see if his roommate is finally back, He felt pretty excited to see if they were actually a cool person who was probably misunderstood but for someone who has a reputation of punching if something goes wrong makes him rethink that part
“pheww, today is going pretty well, and well he isn’t here yet so ill just comb through his stuff..”
Making sure he doesn’t get caught touching his roommate items, he carefully inspects what type of man this guy is. He took a long glance at his roommates hidden bongs and cigarettes along with some alcohol flasks inside his desktop with a paper laying on top trying to hide it.
Tom was an elite at sneaking through peoples hidden belongings, he himself is sneaky with his alcohol too, Since the day Edd and Matt also wanted something to soothe their nerves and started touching his smirnoffs
While he snooped around, he ended up finding more weird belongings like magazines and photos, lotions, condoms, and lube..
Tom started feeling a little embarrassed and uncomfortable going further with his stuff, not like he’s never seen those things but felt like now he was invading way too much. He stopped and instead started to look at his roomates collection of figures and books
Posters of underground and popular bands a long with some band shirts pilled up, with a bunch of edgy jewelry laying on his small drawer
“This guy must be a metalhead or something, pretty cool can’t judge i used to be scene oh how i wish to go back to those beautiful times” felt like a tear of nostalgia was about to roll down
Before he could get nostalgic, the door from outside was being unlocked, Tom wasn’t fully ready to meet them, actually he was nervous to see who it was, just hoped he doesn’t get punched the instant the guy looks at him
The door finally unlocks, he can hear him calling someone in the phone in a language he doesn’t fully recognize yet since it’s faint from inside
“Hør her, mamma, jeg har sagt det utallige ganger! Jeg vil ikke spille fotball og ingeniørfag, jeg vil bare spille ingeniørfag! UGHH”
“Jeg må gå nå, jeg må møte min nye, dumme romkamerat igjen, ha det.”
He finally came inside to greet his new roommate for the 7th time
Tom’s heart instantly felt down to his ass looking at his new roommate.
Those horns similar to the devil and His grey soulless eyes, no longer scrawny but toned like he’s been working out for a while, worst of them all is that hideous smirk he gave him before insulting the shit out of each other
“No fucking way.”
“Hahaha, why Hello there old friend.!” smiling awkwardly
“Don’t call me friend.”
“Really? Even after i left you guys, you hate me more and hold a grudge against me. what did i even do to you to begin with, Edd and matt supported me even when i left and you just got even more pissed”
“First of all me and you were never meant to be friends. Edd only accepted you the second you couldn’t speak english for shit and felt sympathy for your manipulative ass, just getting what you wanted. trying to get in our friendship and crawl by gaining sympathy from those two with your fake “problems”.”
“Oh please, i never expected an asshole to be friends with the sweetest guy. I wasn’t the problem here, it was all you. jealous that he found someone better, richer, funnier and cooler and someone who didn’t have to be on his shoulder 24/7 because even when they are known to be am asshole they can’t speak for themselves back then”
“of course your including the times you finally learned english”
“Not everyone knows english smartass and yeah i still can speak for myself even if english isn’t my first language ”
“Just fucking leave me alone. i don’t want to interfere with you ever and stay the fuck away from Edd and matt”
“now now tom, i can’t just do that to my friends.. You probably don’t know how happy they will be to see their old amazing friend join back in”
“think about hanging around with us and ill fucking rip those horns off your hair.”
“Don’t worry ill think about it tommy, ill make sure of it” The norwegian walks pass Tom bumping shoulder, gaining an irritated expression from him
The norwegian Headed to his bed and opening his laptop and wired earphones to ignore Tom’s voice if he even speaks to him
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1:38am
“FUCK”
Tom woke up to a loud shout, he sighed and headed to were the scream come from, other than already knowing who made that sound other than his roommate
“*knock* tord..tord..can you shut up please and be quiet..”
“...” Nothing but silence
“Hey.. tord? whats going on man, i’m fucking tired and now you won’t respond”
“mm.. tom”
“yeah..?”
“promise me to not get grossed out by it or even act surprised about it”
“what could be so bad that id be grossed out by it, i’ve seen worse”
Tord opens the door to let tom in and check out the thing that has him shouting at 1 in the morning
“Oh jesus what the fuck”
“hey i told u not to get surprised by it”
“first, why do you have a bullet wound, second your bleeding a lot”
“yeah.. so the reason i have it is.. Long short story, i didn’t have money to get a bit of weed so i sort of fooled the guy into thinking i had money, once i arrived and got what i needed, i fucking ran as fast as i could”
“haha it was quite funny.. next thing you know the bastard had a gun on him and shot me on the side”
“For some fucking weed? I mean its you, typical turd”
“ After escaping, i smoked the shit out of that pack and i had a pal help me take out the bullet”
“yea now you have a nasty hole on your left barely visibly ab”
Tord’s face turned pink, from embarrassment not just because he had a man staring at his build but because he’s been trying to get a little bit more fit
“you know i’ve been working out more then you”
“ooooh really?? i have more mass than you and these babes appeared the second i worked out”
Tom lifted his shirt off flexing his biceps and abs right in front of tord. Tord obviously frowned just staring at the man he hates flexing on him, he can’t help but intensely stare Toms incredibly fit body
‘god those abs.. he’s even more fitter than me..! even bigger pecs than me, how i wish he’d squeeze me between thos-.. UGH WHAT I SAYING ew’
“Staring a little to hard there tord”
“just..put your shirt back on”
“alright, alright, well its 2 in the morning now.. You made me forget about my sleep”
“your right, how about i treat you for a smoke outside? for ruining you beauty sleep”
“sure, i haven’t smoked in a while after all”
“put your hoodie on, getting cold at night now— who knew the weather would change in the begginings of september?”
“ppfft, weathers always random mate”
“okay, lets head out now witness”
“still calling me that huh commie?”
“Just like old times “
They both smirked and headed out, locking their dorm making sure no intrusion happens while they are out for a smoke
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3:10am
Both of them outside walking around a small park near by the college, a scarf wrapped around them, making sure to keep their distance away— to prevent from giving anyone ideas just sharing an item
“well isn’t this romantic?” Giving tom a grin
“No actually, its more like very platonic if you think with your brain and not with your ass”
“I’m always using my brain,.. say tom have you ever enjoyed the fresh cold air?”
“Yeah just not a big fan when it snows, why?”
“I don’t know, Its just funny every time i ask someone who isn’t used to piles of thick cold snow”
Yeah, not many of us grow in cold places.. Some of us grow in the hottest areas and would die to even step in a cold region”
“i almost melted away just staying in the beach”
“oh how i love the beach mate.. i love it so much that i could propose to a girl there someday”
“that dream of yours never dies huh? i mean, as long as you find the right one”
“ Its not my main goal now smarty, i have more goals other than marrying someone. Do you want to get married?”
“eh im not sure, my moms been wanting grandchildren from me or my siblings but i never payed much attention for a gal, none of my siblings actually— the oldest is 27 still chasing her dreams and the middle child is just 25, still going out to clubs and me just 20 smoking pot and trying for engineering and football”
“engineering okay but since when did you started doing football?”
“I was forced by my mom, she wanted me to be more active and see whats its like enjoying the life my siblings experienced”
“typical shit, i wanted to do college but i was hesitant. In the end edd cheered me into doing it along with Matt of course.. I love those two idiots, PLATONICALLY.. obviously”
“isn’t it lovely having people cheer you up instead of forcing you”
“yeah.. i guess, i also wanted to see if i can find the love of my life forever and Party!!” Tom started hitting the stanky legg in the middle of the night
“geez your so embarrassing to be around with”
“why are you talking bum, we were all embarrassed of you in middle school”
“lies, lies, you all loved my presence”
“It will be a lie till the day i die”
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The British and norwegian walked for a little longer until 4am, by that time the cafeteria opens up for fresh warm coffee and nutritious foods to give their students strength
They finally finish their last walk and head back to campus and grab coffee and a plate of scrambled eggs with avocado toast on the side
“Coffees on me witness”
“alright, i’ll buys us some food, specially for edd and matt, jealous they got sleep while i stayed awake with a complete asshole”
“oopsies..!!, im not that bad to be around with”
“sure, what i heard from jan you almost put 6 people before me, in the hospital.”
“oh yeah... that so uh, those 6 people would either make a horrible mess or either take whats not theirs to begin with and i gave them a couple of knock downs”
“like what? you fucking lube??”
“No-? what??, you snooped through my shit??!”
“of course, i had to make sure what type of person i was meeting and i should’ve known by your mags.. not surprising and, why do you even have those when you have never touched a woman”
“Chill.. that’s just incase..” tords face instantly blushed, face heated up, what made him say just in case? never even dated a girl.. never did, he’s had a crush on the same person for years but he truly cant say anything about it because he’s afraid things might change between him and that person
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worse was what his mother and father would say about it, he never mentioned the youngest for the fact that they kicked him.
Not for stealing or smoking but because his brother came out trans to their parents.
Tord and his siblings supported him secretly but the day he finally come out everything changed.
They sent him to a camp, where they try to pray and force those “sinful and demonic” thoughts away. Next thing he learns is his brothers death, Committed by hanging himself near the woods. lifeless...next to the letters for his family
what made tords heart ache was that those letters that were burned by their parents. Never even got to read them. Till this day it hurts him.. hurts that he sees the same people who made their youngest, his sibling commit, pained him seeing his brothers grave with his deadname everyday. and that's one of his goals, to change the name his brother actually went by, Sebastian Larx.
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“Mmm yea sure man, ill believe you can actually get a girl once those condoms are gone, for the meanwhile your just a protected virgin with a magazine and anime obsession”
“...”
“whats wrong? you look way zoned out, hello?, earth to Tord”
“huh! huh, oh sorry.. i just wasn’t on my mind for a second”
“i could tell you know, is something bothering you? maybe my presence?”
“yea you, but its just another thing.. i cant say anything about it yet. it doesn’t feel good to say it..”
He clearly saw Tords uncomfortable expression after that condom chat, something bothered him and felt like it wasn’t that part, but who is he to be in his enemies business
“its okay mate, don’t have to tell me, maybe never but cheer up! we still have to go eat you know, i dont need another person to eat with an upset stomach”
“ awe someone worries about me” giving tom a smile with his big grey puppy eyes”
“Ew no, get the fuck away from me, told you i'm not in fully good terms with you and i don’t wish too!!”
“i’ll get there one day, just you wait.. lets go i'm hungry”
tord hold toms hand sprinting towards the campus, on the way they both laugh and giggle as the cold air hits their face, Tom can’t help but feel happy and warm, the color of his cheeks turn into a light pink on their way back
After sprinting and jogging on their way back, before entering they catched their breath. Finally going inside the campus, warm air melting away the cold air from outside. On their way they went to get coffee and a light breakfast for the four of them
After 10 minutes of gathering their breakfast they headed to the other side of campus where the dorms are at, first floor is were edd and matts dorm is at. on their way they almost slipped on the clean floors, almost losing 20 bucks worth of coffee
Good thing they made it safely
“lets hope these two are awake right now, maybe edd is” Tom knocks on their door waiting for a response from at least one of them
“ in a minute!!” was shouted from the other side of the door
“ that’s probably matt, that means edds probably asleep then”
The door finally opens up and matt greets tom, seen his damp hair and the towel on his hand signals that he just finished showering
“Hello there, tom!- wait.. is that.. Todd?” Matt was pleased and excited to see their fellow friend that forgot tord had an R in his name
“why hello matt, and its tord to you”
“oh sorry darling, been so long since i’ve seen or heard of you other than tom remembering you and talking romantically about you”
“HEY! i do not speak about him romantically! i've clearly have told you multiple times i hate him and i still do”
“isn’t that beautiful, haha i knew you were talking about me all the time”
Tord started patting toms back, he was shoved away from tom obviously hating his enemy touching his back, making him shake and get flustered looking away from the both of them
“how cute.. looking away in embarrassment”
“shut the fuck up jackass...anyways wheres edd? just looking by you, i don’t see him on the bed”
“Oh yes! he’s currently showering right now, he said he felt a little funky from yesterday just spending hours studying more animatics or animations”
“Oh okay we both thought he’d still be asleep”
“no no no, he doesn’t want to miss class today so he’s getting ready until nine, but hey lets talk about you tom, wheres your new roommate and also i didn’t expect tord to be with you since he’s apparently your arch nemesis”
“Oh yeah.. so he is my roommate., Long short i still hate him and despite his face even so i don’t feel like fighting with a guy who’s abs are barely noticeable”
“Hey man, i’m trying okay, i’ve been working hard since 10th grade..”
“ you would’ve gained more muscle if you ate a little bit more better other than cigarettes and alcohol with a piece of bread”
“tch, i'm still working on that”
He wasn’t, he is the laziest person when it comes to cooking for himself, he knows how to cook but finds it time consuming he doesn’t even know why but he prefers spending those 10 minutes on fixing and making useless gadgets and prototypes
“Well head in guys, edd has his change of clothes with him inside the bathroom, so feel free to eat with us!”
“well i-“ before the norwegian could even speak he was dragged inside, he knew no wasn’t an answer for these idiots, he liked that part of them
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The four of them finished up and tom and tord headed back to their dorm to sleep for a full day until the next morning so they can continue class tomorrow, meanwhile edd and matt dressed and got ready to arrive in their new class and meet their new professors.
6:40pm
class ended but the both of them planned to come out earlier to have a chit chat about their day and about tord and tom. They headed to the cafeteria to eat and have a small talk before heading out to shop
“ñam ñam ñam, this food is pretty good!, so what do you want to talk about matt”
“i don't know edd.. i have a feeling these two might do something stupid to each other, I know Tom already hates tord enough but the thing about him is..”
“whats with tord? i mean im kinda of a little scared about those two too matt... Just remembering the fights between them back in middle school to high school freshman year”
“Yeah, i don’t know why they started hating each other though, they were completely inseparable in middle school before 8th grade”
“im not sure who started it but it had to be that bad that now they are at each others throats still, it may not be visible right now but these bastards might try killing each other out of no where..!”
“ another thing that now i remember.. tord he told me, but i cant say because he fully trusts me with this and i don’t want him to feel uncomfortable that you two know, specially tom. He’s scared he might used this against him and shame him”
“why not me? we’ve been buddies since the day i met the guy, all scared and shy he couldn’t speak our lame language”
“He does want to tell you but i'm guessing that he’s still scared to say it, what i know is that me and his siblings know about this only, he’s scared of what his parents might do to him if they learn about it”
“Tord shouldn’t feel trapped about it, maybe we need to encourage him so he feels comfortable with it”
“oh Edds its not easy.. its not that easy” Matt had a small upside down smile, laying his hand on Edd
“wait.. what do you—.. Oh”
“Yeah, please don’t speak about it, i feel like i just spilled it way too fast”
“No, no ,no! its okay Matt, i mean i fully support you for who you are, why would he think i wouldn’t support him neither?”
“apparently because you also tell tom a ton when you learn something new” thinning his lips at edd
“oh right right right.. i have to stop that, i promise to keep my lips close”
“please do, i mean tom is an ally so it shouldn’t be bad at all”
“your excluding the part where they both still hate each other, tom could out the guy if tord crosses lines with him..!” whispering so no one around them hears, although they are far away from people
“ yeah about that.. its just one sided”
“wait what? what does that mean?”
“eh you’ll learn later on, lets just say that the reason tord still wants to be around tom and, the only way to talk to him now is just insulting and fighting with each other, although he doesn’t doesn't wish that anymore”
“ so what your saying is??”
“ yeah he doesn’t want to continue this with him but he’s also scared to admit to tom why he doesn’t want to continue these verbal and physical fights”
“sigh.. i feel like i'm listening to rivals who wont admit being nice is better and still want to continue fighting for no fucking reason, WORSEEE! those fights never made sense, its just bullshit after bullshit”
“darling let them be, they will eventually stop, maybe when one kills the other who knows! we should get going now, i want to buy myself a new pair of outfits with some skincare for this delicate pale skin”
“never heard of a fit vampire guy care about his skin”
“well your seeing one and friends with one, Lets go!”
“okay, okay let me throw our trash away”
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The two of them finally left the campus and drove around plazas and walked around malls, shopping, eating desserts and taking pictures at the booths. The two of them enjoying their day walking around, Edd was buying Matt way to many items, forbid he wants to spoil his fellow buddy
“hey matt”
“yes?”
“do.. you want to hold hands?” Edd felt awkward asking that, rubbing the back of his neck as his cheeks turned into a soft tone of pink
“of course Edd, i’d love that”
He reached out for his hand, two guys holding hands, flustered and happy, walking more before heading back to campus.
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After a long day for the four of them, they all slept calmly and finally enjoying their second day in college.
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