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A Year Changes Everything - 1. Chapter 1

It all started at the beginning of College.

 

I arrived a day early and was all unpacked before the majority of students had arrived. The following day they began arriving and I waited in anticipation to see who my roommate would be. I hoped we would have stuff in common, that we could go to parties and he could be my 'wingman'. Knowing my luck, I figured he would probably be a nerd.

 

That was pretty much my only concern in terms of my roommate - that he would be a geek. I had no qualms about sharing a room with another guy; after all I had shared a room with my brother Casper since he was born. We'd shared a bathroom with our two younger brothers Billy and Ben since they were born.

 

As the day wore on, I admit I began to feel nervous. Finally, in the mid-afternoon the door opened and my new roommate walked in.

 

My first thought was that he was tall. Taller than me. I'm 6ft 2' and he had to be a good inch or two taller than me. My second thought was he looked like he'd stepped out of an Abercrombie & Fitch catalogue. He had white blond hair cut in a preppy style, blue eyes and a golden brown tan.

 

My third thought was that my second thought was about the gayest thing a straight man could think.

 

That happened in an instant at the same time as we shook hands and introduced ourselves.

 

"I'm Ryan," I said.

 

"Hi," he smiled. "I'm Andrew. Andrew Van Buren."

 

Over the next hour as he unpacked we chatted although I did most of the talking. He was shy, which surprised me. I had assumed that all WASPs were the self-confident, if not to say arrogant types that you saw on TV and in films.

 

The little I got out of him was that he'd gone to an all boys private school on the East Coast, he'd been in a few sports teams, but wasn't the star quarterback or anything, which was pretty similar to me (except I went to a public school in California). It turned out that we were doing quite a few of the same courses.

 

I liked him and I figured I could have done a whole lot worse in terms of roommates. I'll admit, however, that I was a little jealous of his good looks.

 

That's not to say that I'm bad looking. On a good day I reckon I'm an '8', but Andrew, he was a '10'. Easily.

 

I figured that it was me who would be the wingman, but then I also reckoned that there would be plenty of hot chicks swarming around him and that getting his cast-offs would be no bad thing.

 

The truth is, I was looking to score with as many women as possible - doesn't every straight guy aim for the same thing when they start college? I'd slept with 3 women (2 of those at the beach over the summer), which I thought was a pretty good start, but I hoped there'd be many more in the months to come.

 

Anyway, after I'd told him about as much as I could about myself and got about as much as I thought I could out of him, I thought I would broach the topic of room etiquette.

 

"If one of us brings a chick back we ought to agree a sign so that the other doesn't walk in," I said, cutting straight to the point.

 

"Oh," he said, coloring a little. "Sure. It probably won't be a problem for me though," he said, coloring a little more.

 

"Sure," I said, figuring he was either being sarcastic or very modest.

 

"How about if we are 'entertaining' anyone we tie this tie around the door knob outside?" I suggested, going for a not-so-original method.

 

He agreed and I left the tie on the table by the door.

 

We chatted a bit more, again, I did most of the talking and I mentioned the big party for freshmen that was being put on and we agreed to check it out.

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Decent start. We get to know the characters and you add a little bit of intrigue with the 'it probably won't be a problem for me' about the whole tie business. A tip about your chapters, though you've already loaded all of these. If you don't want the big gaps between paragraphs from pasting from Word paste your chapter into Notepad first. It does remove some formatting which you have to redo but it gets rid of those large distracting gaps too.

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Hmmm, as seen through the eyes of a straight guy. Different. As in all stories, something must change. Can't wait to find out what that change will be.

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