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When it's your first time at a bording school, and you meet seven kids with three Xboxes, you enter a state of a perfect circle of friends. After hooking up live to work between said Xboxes, we played Halo until the jocks caught on. Jealous and envious of our glorious means of entertainment, a few of them pointed out that they had Xboxes as well. Three, actually.

So we all hooked up the Xboxes to play one massive live game to see who was the better. Obviously, nerds kicked butt. At Halo. And Battlefield. And CoD. No matter what we played, we kicked their butts hardcore. Then they suggested mixing it up by switching teams. Yeah, sure, let's take the obviously forming groups in the dorm, and split them in half, form four groups instead of two. Brilliant! Of course, none of us agreed. They got mad, switched to playing amongst eachother, and we enjoyed a nice long game of Slayer.

So there were five new friends to our group. Daniel and David were the twin fuskies, and were apparently an item. Zane was the magenta and cyan folf, and he was also gay, but was terrified of having anyone find out other than non gays. Of course, a moment or two later he found out me and Ted weren't gay, but we wouldn't tell. Isaac is a snow leapard with a serious attitude. He was disgusted by gay jokes and stuff like me, but claimed to not be a homophobe. He just didn't say he was or wasn't gay. Finally you had X. He nothing, and all we know is that he's a gray wolf named X. Fun group of friends. Through these guys, we figured out who was dormed with who, because Isaac and Zane had had to act like jocks until they realized there was another group forming.

There were six rooms filled in the hall. Odd numbers on the left, and even numbers on the right, we were in room five. Six, across the hall, was filled with the twins and Braden. Four had Zane, and two reptiles named Carter and Rick. Dorm three had Isaac, a ferret named Jordan, and a zebra named Daniel. Two had a husky named Dylan, a german sherperd named Jacob, and a ferret named Jacob. Room one had X, a dragon named Leonidus, and a lion named Jim. Yes, two Daniels and two Jacobs.

We finally stopped playing Halo around midnight because the jocks had stopped and wanted back into their rooms. So, well, we couldn't do anything about it, partially because they shut down Daniel and David's Xbox mid-game. This was going to be an interesting school year.

* * *

I got up around six in the morning and just kinda sat around not really doing anything. I played some minecraft on the PC, drew some stuff that all looked like crap in my opinion, and even considered playing the Xbox without Alex's permission. No, he might not like that.

Finally, around nine, Ted lazily walked out of his room. I only saw him for a glimmer of a moment because he vanished into the bathroom for about half an hour. When he came out, his fur was a little wet and the smell of strawberries clung to the air within four feet of him. Well, at least we know what his shampoo smells like.

"Jesus christ, Ted. Ever think of lightening up on the soap?" [Me]

"Huh? Oh... yeah, sorry. I spaced out and washed myself like five times. I'm not used to staying up so late." He sat down on the couch and yawned.

"Psh, midnight isn't very late! Wait, don't tell me you were one of those kids who actually fell asleep right away the second you went to bed."

"Out like a log and sleep like a light. Wait, no. That's backwards."

"You think?"

"Shut up. I'm not a morning person either."

"I woke up at six. I'm tired as hell, but you don't see me complaining."

"Dude, what did you even do for three and half hours?"

"Video games."

"Ugh. Why'd you turn off the Xbox then?"

"Because I never turned it on? Alex may not want us to play it, and it's his Xbox."

"God, you're such a goody two shoes."

"Says the kid who actually tried to sleep when they went to bed."

"Oh, thank god, you guys are finally awake." Alex came out of his room looking really tired.

"I've been up since six." [Me]

"Why didn't you come wake me up, then? God, I barely slept at all last night."

"I slept like a light." [Ted]

"... What?"

"He's dillusional." [Me]

"And hungry. How about breakfast?" [Ted]

"I gotta shower first." [Alex]

"Remember to only use soap once." [Me]

"Wait, is that what that smell is?"

"I'm not a morning person!" [Ted]

"Okay, okay. God, you don't need to be so loud." Alex went into the bathroom, and we heard water running a minute later.

"We should buy sodas for the minifridge." [Ted]

"We should keep a muzzle on you until breakfast."

"Shut up, I'm tired. I don't need a nerd hounding me about being rude."

"Yeah, you kinda do. You're being a bit of an asshole."

"Oh, so what? Can't you handle a little teasing?"

"No, it's obnoxious jerks I can't handle."

"You wanna go, punk?"

"Picking fights before school even begins, so typical of a jock."

"Trying to talk his way out of danger, so typical of a nerd."

"Stop it! Stop it, both of you!" Alex came out of the bathroom sopping wet. His clothes clung awkwardly to him and walked a little funny.

"Da fuck? Why didn't you use a hair dryer?" [Ted]

"I don't have one."

"Use mine, then."

"I would, if I felt okay with leaving you two in the same room together. You're gonna tear eachother limb from limb!"

"We aren't kids, Alex." [Ted]

"You are now. One of you is staying in the bathroom with me so I can make sure you guys aren't fighting and arguing."

"He started it!" I pointed to Ted, who took this offensively.

"You said I should wear a muzzle in the morning!" [Ted]

"It was a joke!"

"Stop! Ted, get in the bathroom." [Alex]

"Why do I have to be punished?" [Ted]

"Think of it as a chance to find out whether you're gay or straight. You two are ridiculous." Ted sauntered into the bathroom, and Alex followed. I just kinda sat on the couch and waited, realizing that I must've been pretty mean if I had actually said that.

About twenty minutes later, Alex and Ted came out, and Ted had a morbid look on his face. "I'm straight, definitely straight."

"Oh, shut up, it's not like you had to do anything." [Alex]

"Dude, he has a sheath."

"Why would I want to know that?!" [Me]

"Of course I do, I'm a fox. All canines have sheathes, what's your problem?" [Alex]

"Yeah, that's actually kinda obvious, Ted."

"Well I don't. I didn't think he would, and quite frankly I hadn't seen one. Until he scarred me for life." [Ted]

"Why did you look, then?" [Me]

"Because... I may or may not have been curious about my orientation. Shut up, I've had a rough six years of being bi!" [Ted]

"Six years?" [Alex]

"Okay, two, but still."

"Dude, I've been gay since I was ten. Trust me, you're issues are minimal."

"I just never cared. But you know what I do care about? Breakfast. Come on!" [Me]

"Aren't you gonna take a shower?" [Ted]

"I prefer taking showers at night."

"But you didn't take one last night." [Alex]

"'Cause I was tired as hell. Come on, I'm starving! It's almost ten!"

"Eh, whatever." Alex and Ted followed me as I hurredly walked down to the cafeteria and got waffles. We were headed to the same table we'd sat at the night before when we stumbled into Zane and the twins sitting there.

"Uh, how did you find us?" [David]

"This is where we ate last night, you're at our table." [Ted]

"He's just hungry, anything mean he says is his stomach talking." [Alex]

"Ah. Well, go ahead and sit. We're just playing poke'mon." [Daniel]

"Wait, the card game?" [Ted]

"Yeah, I know. They're total nerds." [Zane]

"No, no. That's super cool. I used to play that when I was a kid. I still have all my old decks."

"All?" [Me]

"Hey, you can nerd out about science and I can nerd out about Poke'mon cards."

"Yeah, but, how many did you have?" [David]

"One for every combination of two types, and a few decks themed around the starters of each region."

"But, that's like fourteen decks." [Daniel]

"Actually it's nineteen, but I stopped after Sinnoh."

"And you called us nerds?" [Alex]

"Says the guy who can beat Halo on legendary without thinking."

"Eh, fair enough."

"Yeah, I think that's something that sets you aside from most." [Zane]

"Yeah."

We were quiet for a while, and just kinda watched David and Daniel play. Every now and then Ted would do something like snicker or chuckle. It clearly got on Daniel's nerves.

"What's your problem?"

"Nothing. You on the other hand..."

"What? I'm making the most logical decisions."

"No. You're deck's off balanced, simply because you can't cram four types into one deck, and you're evolving your main poke'mon rather than your benched poke'mon. If you evolve your benched poke'mon, they're ready to beat the crap out of your opponent when he slaughters that wasted charizard evolution card." Daniel looked at his hand, then the cards laid out, then back at his hand.

"Fuck." [Daniel]

"Nerd." [Me]

"Shut up..." [Ted]

"You know, I haven't seen any girls yet." [Zane]

"I thought you were gay." [David]

"Yeah, but girls understand me better, they're less judgey."

"You're in a group of gays with only two straight guys, and we only say we're straight because we don't know. I think you're good." [Me]

"No, I've talked to other gays before, and... they just don't get it."

"Get-"

"Sup fellas!" Braden popped up out of no where. He had a couple of our hall mates behind him, and they sat down at the table next to ours. Everyone at our table shut up. Maybe if you ignore them, they go away?

"What are you playing?" [Carter]

"Nothing." [Daniel]

"Hey, I won't judge. What are you playing?"

"If we wanted you to know, we'd tell you." [David]

"Why is it such a big deal that we don't know?" [Rick]

"Just leave us alone." [Zane]

"Why? We're hall buddies! We gotta be friends!" [Carter]

"Yeah, what's your problem?" [Braden]

"You. You're our problem." In four swift movements, they put away the game, and got up to leave.

"Where you going? You don't have to stop playing just for us." Rick stopped them before they could go.

"Back to the dorm, to enjoy living in peace." [David]

"Why don't like us? You seem friendly enough, and you're REALLY cute." Braden carassed Daniel as he said this, and I could see it in Alex's eyes that this was not okay. Actually, everyone but the jocks tensed up about this.

"Leave us alone." [Daniel]

"But Danny, we're best buds!" Braden latched on to his arms, and I saw a tear begin to form in Alex's eyes. He was probably remembering something similar that might've happened to him.

"Let go of me."

"But, Danny? Why don't you like him?" [Carter]

"Please, let go of me."

"Aww, Danny. It's okay." [Rick]

I heard Daniel's voice begin to quiver as he spoke, "Let go of me!"

"Aww, but Danny! Don't you like me?" [Braden]

"Let go of him." [David]

"Why don't you guys like us?" [Rick]

"We thought you liked guys." [Carter]

"Yeah, can't we just get along?" [Braden]

"Just let go of him." Rick shot Zane a glare, and Daniel began to cry. It grossed out Braden and he shoved Daniel into David, knocking them into the wall.

"Stupid fags." He turned around and Rick and Carter followed him. Alex kept his eyes on them until they were out of the building. Daniel and David sat back down, and Daniel leaned into David's chest.

"Why do people hate me?" Daniel's voice was quivering badly and he had tears in his eyes.

"I don't hate you." [David]

"Neither do we." [Alex]

"You're a cool kid." [Ted]

"It's okay. Braden's just a jock." [David]

"No, he's not a jock." Everyone glared at me.

"He's a fucking brute."

"Is there a difference?" [Zane]

"Yeah, a jock could have some intelligence, brutes are more like neanderthals."

"Heh heh, that's funny." Daniel sat up and starred at me.

"Hey, why are you wearing a beanie and gloves? It's late august, it's not even fall yet." [Daniel]

"I have reasons." [Me]

"Like what? I mean, that is a good point." [Zane]

"Are you seriously that bent on being stylish?" [David]

"No, I don't care about style." [Me]

"Then why do you wear those?" [Zane]

"Promise not to freak out?"

"You're sitting at a table with a bunch of gays, I'm pretty sure we can handle whatever you're hiding." [David]

"Okay, but if any of you freaks out, I'm going to back to the dorm." I pulled off my beanie and turned my head to the side so that they could see the blood red pentagrams on my face.

"Woah." [Daniel]

"That's... What?" [Zane]

"You know, you actually have a good reason to hide those." [David]

"Oh, and they glow." Alex reached over and cupped his hands over the pentagram, so that they could see the faint red light radiating off of my fur.

"Yeah, I'm putting the beanie back on." [Me]

"But..." [Alex]

"But what, mister lover boy?" [Ted]

"Shut up..."

"Wait, does he like, have a crush on Seth?" [Zane]

"It doesn't matter. I don't know if I'm gay or straight, and I'd rather not crush someone's dreams either way." [Me]

"Huh?" [David]

"How do you not know whether you're gay or straight?" [Daniel]

"Yeah, isn't it kinda obvious?" [Zane]

"Well... I never really looked at anybody like that." [Me]

"Nor did I." [Ted]

"Well, you did, and it totally freaked you out." [Alex]

"Shut up!"

"Huh, whatev's. You guys wanna head back to the dorm and play some more Halo?" [Me]

"Can't. Gotta get our lit books from the library." [Daniel]

"You probably do too, though." [David]

"Lit books, what?" [Ted]

"You're supposed to get your own school books. Did you read the packet?" [Zane]

"We only filled out our classes." [Alex]

"Oh. Yeah, you're also supposed to like, give two hundred bucks to each friend." [Zane]

"Yeah, not happening." [Me]

"Eh, worth a shot."

"So, we're gonna go deal with the books, you should make sure you fill out that packet, or you're pretty much screwed." [Daniel]