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Ciel walked down the hall, his light steps the only thing he heard, it was surprising to him it would be this quiet in the dorms.

Weston was a hefty fee, it was surprising he was here at all, his father always thought public school was just fine, no reason for something like this just because they could afford it but considering.. recent events, it wasnt like Ciel had much of a choice, but that doesn't matter.

Thinking those things will only sour Ciel's mood, he should be happy shouldn't he? He has gotten into a fancy and great school! but.. the why.

He just couldn't forget the why.

why he had to move all this way, why his father was suddenly so prepared to leave town and come all this way.. Ciel looked at the ground, wow even the carpet was fancy.

He looked back up to the walls and the things that adored them, it was almost like home, only in terms of elaborate structure and decoration.

but the hall air didn't feel like home

It felt like high schooler petty drama and stressful restless study nights.

all the things Ciel quite frankly, hated to his core, especially the former.

He sighed, he did bring this onto himself, he could have told his father he wanted to stay, he could have lied and said that it's fine, he couldn't prevent all of it years ago.

But of course, what was done is done, now here is where the young phantomhive will be.

a ring in his pocket reminded him it was phantomhives here, as his older twin brother started calling his phone, just seeing his name on the screen made Ciel feel a bit worse, the guilt that it didn't just affect him, but Sirius too.

he sighed, it's not his fault, he did what he could in the first place ”Ciel reminded himself before raising the phone to his ear "hi" he said simply enough, it didn't take more than a second for it to be answered with an overly enthusiastic "HEY Ciel!" from the other line

Ciel sighed once again

"hi syruis, you called so quickly, i doubt mother even left the premises yet" he said glancing down to the sticky note in hand, the one that reminded him which dorm would belong to him and one other student

"I know, I know! I'm just excited, Cielly!!" his brother said, but Ciel had a twinge of pink to his face when he heard the nickname

"dont call me that, I’ve asked so many times!" He said slightly annoyed by the use of a nickname he has despised since he was cursed with it at four years old, but of course nobody listens, but that doesn't mean Ciel needs to become compliant with the horrid nickname.

It wouldn't matter either way, because every time he complained, a laugh would be sent his way, just like right now with Sirius hearing him giggle into the phone

"jeez dont be a baabbbyy!" He said drawing out that last word to further upset Ciel, he knew just how mad it drove the boy when he was called anything remotely implying he's childish, and who knew that better than his own twin brother Sirius?

Ciel grumbled out an insult, something like 'bloody hell' before properly responding "if you have nothing of value to say, ill hang up" he threatened

he heard a faint chuckle before a dramatic "nonono! Cielly, you wouldn't hang up on your dear older brother? would you?"

"Yes. yes i absolutely would" Ciel replied flatly, clearly not taking as much joy as his brother did in these little spats of there's anywho “text me your dorm number when you can Cielly! I wanna meet your roommate as soon as possible!"

“And why exactly are you so pumped to meet whoever my roommate will be?” Ciel asked as his eyes scanned the doors, some having stickers, some even having posters or painted, was that even allowed?

“Oh well, living with the famous ‘Cielly phatomhive’ isn’t easy, I’d know!” He said making Ciel regret ever picking up the phone in the first place, how agitating his brother could be “again Sirius, if you have nothing of value I’ll-“

“-Hang up, I knowww” Sirius whined, ceil heard the boy dramatically sigh, what a drama queen he thought for just a second “just, text me how he is y'know? Maybe we can trade secrets on how to survive living with cie-“

Beep, beep.

Ciel had hung up

He had gotten to his dorm number anyway- and also had gotta far more then enough of Sirius for the day- the gold number plate shingling the letters 212, him squinted as if he could’ve misread.

The door had a flag poking out of it, littered in all types of stickers and written right above the shiny plate in purple pen read his new roommates name

‘Aloiz Wuz here’

..aloiz?

Strange, Ciel thought but the name was the least of his concerns

But the loud heavy music blasting from within the dorm, that must’ve been the faint noise he heard way earlier, but now that he was inches away from the source, it was clearly very loud.

Oh god, his roommate was one of those types, wasn’t he?

Ciel sighed, mentally preparing himself for the mental torture he is about to go through until he unavoidably switches dorms or even schools.

Welp, waiting out here won’t do me any good, better get a move on.

He said before knocking politely onto the vandalized wooden door, then waited, and when nobody answered because how the hell would whoever ‘Aloiz’ is hear that soft knocking. He knocked again

With a bit more strength, but when nobody replied to him he cleared his throat "excuse me! I am your new dorm mate!” He said his voice only slightly higher but when nobody even replied to that he got upset

His hand instinctively went to the handle “now i just wan-“ the second he pulled, the door opened. It wasn’t even locked? What an irresponsible roommate..

ciel hasn't even met the person yet he's already certain whoever it is will make this one annoying year, he sighed for the ninth billion time, 'whatever, better quickly get this over with

he gently opened the door-

...

this place... is a complete mess.

ciel already tell which side was his, the one where the bed didn't have a mattress, but other the lack of a mattress it was not* empty once so ever.

he stepped into the room, almost immediately stepping onto a..shirt? something told him it was shorts, but honestly it looked too tiny to be either. He stepped over clothing and other things like.. makeup? Was his roommate going to constantly have ladies leaving their products here?

ciel felt disappointed, of course, the universe hates him after all so why wouldn't he get roomed with something and organized, clothing, food containers, products, soda cans, littered on every corner

and purple, a disturbing amount of purple.

'clearly whoever this hooligan is has a favorite color' ciel noted with a sigh, if he was going to be living her for a couple months, he at least wanted his side to be presentable

And so, Ciel cleaned his side, rubbing stains off the wall, tearing off posters and throwing them to the other side, throwing out whatever was on his nightstand, and going to his front office for a mattress.

and finally, after what had to be at least an hour, ciel was done. he also immediately fell asleep, face first, onto his bed without its cover on yet

that is of course a voice came from above him

"Do you think he's dead? did the lavender kill him??"

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Alois is confident to say he's done pretty much everything there is to do

Alois is confident to say he's been pretty much everything there is to be

popular, unknown, a bully, insulted, loved, adored, but ignored? well that's something he refuses to be. Not again. Never again.

So that's why when the blue haired boy laying in the usually semi empty bed in his dorm upset him so much, was he deaf? How could he possibly not hear the blonde yelling into his ear?

"ugh!! timber, who even is this!?" he said looking to one of his lackeys, timber and.. well he didn't exactly know the other twos name despite them trailing him almost all day everyday

they all shrugged, Alois didn't even know which was timber since they all responded to whatever Alois called them. Alois didn't feel bad, he didn't like to so he didn't, Alois trancy never did things he didn't want to do

he would live, and die, by his own rules

"ugh stupid inbred idiots.. what are you good for if you can't tell me whos in my dorm!" he shouted looking at the three, none dared to look him in the eye, like Alois would bite if they did, and who knows? maybe he would

"You three are useless! I wish Hannah could get her butt back to school right now, at least she can answer me properly." Alois said, despite being the reason she's out of school in the first place, it was damage to the eye, an accident that was completely and utterly Alois's fault

but nobody here would dare call him out, especially not Hannah herself. Suddenly before Alois could put his hands on the sleeping boy he started to stir, he looked agitated

good.

"Is he dead? did the lavender kill him??" Alois questioned, he did spray some lavender air freshener earlier, and he does do that a lot "maybe the boy had an allergy and it killed him while he slept" Alois immediately looked to see which triplet said that, of course he still had no clue

so he turned back around and looked back down to the blue haired boy sleeping, Ciel stirred once again in his sleep, his eyes slowly opening just to be met by an eye piercing blue gaze "hey" the blue eyed demon above Ciel said flatly.

Ciel almost immediately got up, a hand flying over his eye, it wasn’t there, he quickly realized he must’ve slipped it off while he slept. He definitely didn’t need whoever this blue eyed boy was seeing it

“Jumpy, huh? Well imagine how I felt when I saw some rando in my room! Scram you freak!” Alois yelled pointing at the door, the triplets nodding in agreement even though Alois doubt they even listened to a word he said half the time

Whatever, they were there for decoration anyway, just like everyone else

“Uhm.” Ciel started, rubbing the crust out of his eye with his free hand, what a great* way to wake up, some random blonde screaming in your face “I’m your dorm mate actually, it’s Ciel Phantomhive.”

“New dorm mate?” Alois looked back to his lackeys like they would speak without being spoken to first- not after the incident where Alois made them dye their hair for speaking out- Alois dramatically sighed and looked back at the boy “god I didn’t think I’d have to get one of these.”

“..a dorm mate?” Ciel questioned, he was under the impression most everyone had one, what was so special about this boy that he’d think he’d have a dorm all to himself?

Alois didn’t bother answering his question, he just didn’t want to, instead he apparently wanted to talk like Ciel wasn’t even there “he’s skinny, Jesus get come color in those cheeks"

“Excuse me-“

“Not to even mention his hair, it’s so..edgy looking, weird contrast to the formal wear bud”

“I’m sorry bu-“

“Oh and look! He’s covering his eye too!”

Alois kept continuing to talk over Alois like he didn’t even exist, completely ignoring his attempt to stop this onslaught of comments about his appearance “oh god look at his face, he’s getting red- that’s not what I meant by get color I’m those cheeks you Victorian ghost boy”

Ciel scoffed, he felt so very insulted, and so SO annoyed. He got up, brushing off his blazer, trying to look as formal and serious as possible, despite the red embarrassment in his face "excuse me, but you are aloiz right?"

alois let out a huff of a laugh at Ciel's pronunciation of his name "alois, and who are you, speech impediment emo?" he joked putting a hand on his hip, tilting his head with a smirk and that's when Ciel knew he was going to despise this boy

 already said my name, Alois."

"yeah but i don't love listening to your little accent! What even is that? British? German?"

Ciel had to fight the urge to roll his eye, "we are in england." he answered flatly before going to grab his eye patch so his hand could stop hovering over the damaged eye

he had noticed Alois's slight accent, he wanted to ask what it was but he would curse himself if he accidentally prolonged his weird conversation

he heard an almost whine from none other than the blonde "i know but yours sounds heavier? or weird, so comn, lemme see!" Alois stepped forward to the bluenette who was looking down as he put the eye patch on "tell me!"

"im half g-"

"Is that an eye patch?"

Ciel didn't even get to answer the others question as alois had another, he opened his eye to see the blue ones boring into his singular "your eyes are a daunting blue, you've almost spooked me twice with them" Ciel commented under his breath

but Alois caught it, and he grinned "and you have one, why?? Can I see under it? I wanna see, is it just like the remains of it? eww gross! how'd you lose it?" the boy attacked Ciel with questioned, not even giving Ciel enough time to decide if he wants to answer one before slinging another at him

"-talk slower for heaven's sake!" Ciel finally interrupted, alois almost looked caught off guard for half a second, before that grin appeared like magic "fine. what's wrong with your eye, or are you one of those?"

Ciel forward his eyes at whatever the blonde was implying with 'one of those' before sighing, he could at least answer that he guessed "i just have a bit of a lazy eye, nothing dramatic or serious."

but of course that was a lie, but Ciel didn't want to even dive into that rabbit hole, nevertheless with a stranger of all people, he hasn't even explained it to his cousin yet

Alois seemed very disappointed to say the least. He was expecting drama and trauma, not a silly slight lazy eye. but he bought it nonetheless, for the most part at least "oh boo.." he childishly pouted

Ciel sighed, of course this boy hoped it was something major, it was, but that was none of his business. "yeah how unfortunate, well my cousin is pro-"

"Who's your cousin?"

".." Ciel mentally debated just walking right out of the dorm and straight off campus that second. "Elizabeth midford, green house." he didn't.

"oh oh! i know her" alois said like he didn't know everyone within this campus, nobody could avoid having at least one conversation with the trancy, and not because he was sweet, but because he was nosy "tell her 'lois says hiii!"

"I'm not a messenger dog" Ciel grumbled as he grabbed his satchel. Alois seemed to somehow hear him and chuckle "Well I'll be off now, she must be waiting for me already." Ciel said moving past alois and his goons

"oh boo, chiao then!"

Ciel didn't reply, he didn't even look back to alois waving his hand high at him from the door way, the boy had somehow already figured out a way to annoy Ciel on only their first meeting

maybe Ciel shouldn't be so short with people, he didn't know, humans are just so confusing, and being one was perhaps even worse.

he pulled out his phone and went to his contacts, but before he could find elizabeth, he saw another

Sebastian

that taunting name, it just laid there, and Ciel just stared at it

it was so in reach, just a click away, a simple text couldn't hurt..

but it so could

..so, he didn't click it

he might have if a notification didn't pop up, one from his mom and dad, wishing him well at his new school, a good day, a good fresh start.

..he hearted the message, he couldn't even read it fully or else he'd tear up, and crying in the middle of the dorm hallway while others could watch his pitiful display that was a whole separate nightmare

he sighed, finally not out of annoyance but a relief of some kind as he clicked onto Elizabeth's number typing 'whats your dorm number? can i come over?' he sent

he didn't have to wait a minute until a cheerful "HII cielly!! It's 2: 30, come quick, I have snacks!!!' he almost grinned at her overly happy reply, he quickly started to make his way to her dorms

'What kind of snacks?'

'pockys, ik how much u love them! mr sweet tooth!!'

'can’t deny that, i'll be there in about ten minutes'

'alr! see youuuuu'

Ciel put his phone back into his pocket, and continued to make his way to green house dorms