Kavi was momentarily content with the response he gained from the other, knowing that it was only expected from most so early in the morning. However, as the morning drew on he decided that it was growing too close to orientation, and he was not going to have his roommate late due to over sleeping. Slipping from his bed, he walked over to the curled figure, placing a hand on the shoulder and lightly shaking Fabio. "Come on, you have to get up and get ready. Don't want to miss orientation."
He thought the others voice was part of his dream. He rolled over further into his bed taking the others hand off his shoulder. He was loosing the fight to keep his dream inside his head. "No." Fabio moaned as a response. He curled up tighter into a fall pulling his blanket over his head.
Scowling, Kavi took back to shaking Fabio's shoulder, with a slight amount of additional force in an effort to finally jostle him awake. "No, you are getting up. I won't have my roommate late to orientation because my efforts to wake you failed." Shifting his hand, Kavi took a hold of the blanket's edge, tugging it away from the sleeping face.
He grunted at the shaking determined to ignore it. He pulled his pillow from beneath his head and covered his head with it. "Kavi..." He moan muffled by the sound of fluff. "You can only wake sleeping beauty with a kiss." Surely that would have gotten the prude to leave him alone.
Making a failed attempt at prying the plush pillow away from Fabio, Kavi huffed and stepped away from the curled figure. "But you are no sleeping beauty, so kisses do not apply to you. Now get up or I'll dump a glass of water over you. Don't want to mess up your make-up, princess." Crawling back onto his bed, the boy pulled his computer back onto his lap and went back to work, keeping an eye on Fabio, making sure the boy woke up or made any effort to.
"What ever dude." he mumbled he rolled over as if he was going to get up but then stopped moving at all. Soon his body relaxed and he had fallen asleep again.
After allowing the boy another five minutes of interrupted sleep, Kavi stood from his bed once more. Striding to the bed, he outstretched his hands to take a hold of either one of Fabio's cheeks, pinching them rather forcefully. "Wake up, and start getting ready, or I will pour water on you if you wall asleep again."
Fabio instinctively yelled springing from the bed and headbutting the other. "Let go of me." He pulled the others hands from his face and grabbed his pillow and hit the other. "Don't do that." He said rubbing his face falling back on to his bed. "I will get up when I am ready."
"By the time your ready orientation will be over." He argued as he felt the pillow slam into the side of his head, knocking his glasses to the ground. "I do not care if you miss your normal classes, but orientation is important." He continued explaining as he bent to the ground, picking up his glasses before wiping them clean and slipping them back into his face.
"Then you go and tell me all about it later." He said readjusting himself but finding it hard to go back to sleep. He was not interested in orientation. It was all the same or so he heard. He had other ways of finding out the school rules and clubs.
"I'm not going to take my time to go to orientation while you sit here sleeping and come back to relay what happened."He said huffily. Padding the few steps to his bed, Kavi took up one of the romance novels Fabio had lent to him. Flipping over the limp novel he roughly flipped through the pages before looking over at Fabio. "If you don't get up and get ready I'll ruin the book, like you did mine."
He thought about calling the others bluff, especially since he felt so strongly about Fabio's supposed book damage. After thinking about, Fabio could not risk that with his mothers book. He rolled over and jumped out of the folds of his blanket, snatching the book from Kavi's hand. He hit his roommate with the book on the head, before walking back to his bed. He snaked his way back under his blankets curling around the book.
He scowled as the book was quickly and easily plucked from his hands before he had a chance to pull it out of the way. Feeling the soft paged thwack the back of his head, his glasses fell to the floor in front of him a second time already. Watching the blurry figure stalk back to the bed, intending to return to the late sleeping. "Fine, be late to orientation, but I won't recap anything for you," Kavi said with a frown, bending down to grab his glasses from the floor. Grabbing the few things he needed, he headed out of the dorm to start towards the school's assimilation.
Fabio shook his head and chucked. He tucked the book under the pillow after kissing its cover relieved for its safety. He rolled out of his bed landing close to the jeans he wore the previous day. He put them on along with a shirt he found. He was out of the room with his satchel as the other was waiting for the elevator. “Hi
Hearing the vagurly familiar voice, he turned to look at the owner of the voice, only to feel a hand come in contact with the back of his head. "You need to stop doing that." Kavi said as he caught his glasses midair, before they finished their tumble to the ground. "You're going to end up breaking my glasses before too long if you keep it up." Placing the glasses back onto his face, Kavi looked up in time to see the elevator doors open.
He nudged the other snickering. "Thats what she said" He jumped into the opening doors inspecting the wall of buttons and pushed the one they needed. He turned to the other smiling, reaching out he adjusted the others glasses slightly. "So what is the big deal with orientation?"
He raised a questioning eyebrow at the lewd joke as he stepped into the elevator. "That one doesn't even make sense, evaluate the words before you call it out," Kavi said just before Fabio reached out to fix his glasses. Swatting away the hands he took a half step away and adjusted the glasses himself. "Orientation is important, you get to see around the school, learn where everything is at, and see what all the school has to offer, in relation to clubs and activities, for the students."
He smiled "If you evaluate things, you loose the moment." Shaking his head he rolled his eyes at the other. "And really that is why I am out of bed? I did all of that in the tour when they were trying to take my money." As they stepped out of the building Fabio pointed aloft. "That is the business building, where a lot of computer ethics classes are taken... thats the art building." He grinned. "Shall I go on?"
"If you're a quick thinker you can both evaluate it and get the joke in." It was his turn to roll his eyes at Fabio as they stepped out of the building. "No, no need to continue. And yes, they did tell us things when we would first visit, but there are other, interesting things they tell you at orientation. Trust me, it'll be for the better by going, and if it really is a waste of our time we can just leave."
"Lame... your so by the book." He shook his shaggy mane. "Alright... I accept that challenge. If its the pits then we can go to the town." He was excited by the idea of finding another dinner spot. He held out his hand to make the deal official.
"Is it really so bad to be by the book?" Kavi asked as he looked at the offered hand for a moment. Taking it into his own he gave it an affirming shake before retracting it once again. "But enough with the betting, what sorts of classes are you taking this year?"
"Yes... it is actually. It limits a child creative growth. Yeah people need math tinkers but they also need innovation. If children have a firm foundation of creativity they can apply it to math and sciences." He grinned but sooon stopped as the question caught him off guard. "The general ed stuff that I need. you know english, math a sociology class... what about you?"
"I see your point, but I wouldn't call it bad to be by the book, just different. It ends with a different outcome of child, but one isn't worse than the other." Sticking his hands into his pockets to protect them from the brisk autumn air, he continued on. "Essentially the same, mainly trying to get the necessary classes out of the way before a secondary school. Though, I'll be taking more science and math classes in comparison to the other kinds. "
"I dunno, I have yet to meet a by the book person that was creative they tend to develop their left side of their brain more which controls logic... I think." He paused briefly to consider what the other was saying. "No offense but why come here... if you just want to do math things, why not go to MIT or some place like that?"
He couldn't say he was particularly surprised at the question, it certainly wasn't the first time he'd been asked, but he was still taken aback. "I looked into MIT, Purdue, Dartmouth, and all sorts of universities known for their math and science programs, but none of them appealed to me like this college did. They were all too big and showy, but this one is nice and small, more my style." He turned his head to offer the other a side-long glance before turning his attention to the path in front of them. "What about you, why this college?"
A shrug escaped his body, as he dug his hands in his pockets. “They paid me to come here. Its the only place that offered me a full ride, though it means I have to spend 3 years teaching in the school system of their choice I think I can live.
"Once you finish school, all you can hope for is that they give you a decent school to teach at," Kavi commented with a shrug. Stepping closer to the doors of the auditorium, the boy reached out to open the door, but Fabio had beat him to it. At the offered comment he offered an eye roll and a shake of his head before stepping forward. Simply glancing down the hall he could see a number of people loitering near the end of the hall, and small signs posted on the walls directed students here for orientation to head down there. With no hesitation, Kavi headed down the hall towards the sound of voices and shadows of people.
He dug his hands in his pocket following behind the other. It already felt like a snooze fest and was really anxious to get back outside. Fabio found a pair of seats near the middle surrounded by students sharing both he and Kavi's sentiments. He flopped down into one grumpily sinking into the cushion and curling his feet so that they rested on the back of the chair in front of him. "Wake me when you realize its boring." He said tugging on his beanie.
"You're so lazy," He commented as he took his seat. Bothering Fabio no more, he took to scanning through the rest of the room, giving glances at the students with mild curiosity as he waited for orientation to actually begin. Not long after he'd taken to his crowd searching, one of the professors took to commencing orientation. Settling back in his seat, Kavi paid attention to the offered words, but before long he could feel the speech slowly making the entire room feel blasé and dull. A nearly inaudible sigh escaped his lips as he settled back into his seat, patiently waiting for it to come to an end, despite hardly beginning.
His attention had dwindled the moment he sat in the chair. He did not mean to nod off and snapped himself into attention. He pulled the beanie fabric from his face and looked at Kavi. His attention turned to Kavi as even the other appeared jaded. The smuggest smile of satisfaction grace his lips. He reached in his pockets and pulled out a sharpie. On the back of Kavi's hand he wrote "i told u so." With a little heart over the i. He made a kissy face at the other.
He was brought from his tired mindset when he heard the other stirring beside him. Watching with mild interest, he saw Fabio pluck the marker from his pocket before taking his hand into his own. Adjusting his glasses with the other hand he tried to make out what he'd written, but he was only able to see after it was completely written. His school contorted into a scowl as he read the words. Turning his head to the side, he glared at Fabio as he made an effort to wipe away the words to no avail. "Let's just go, there's nothing else to do here..." Kavi said quietly as he offered a light shooing motion.
He rolled out of the chair snickering and pushed past those that wanted to stay. Once he was out side he laughed and felt the need to repeat himself. "Dude, I told you so." Shaking his head he dug his hands into pocket and scampered in a circle around the other. "Where would you like to explore first?"
Abandoning his chair, he followed after Fabio, giving mumbled apologies to those they passed on their way out. Stepping out into the hall after the other, he frowned again at the offered words and rolled his eyes. "You don't need to tell me twice, besides, I have this as a reminder." He help up his hand to show off the dark words still written on his hand. His eyes followed Fabio as the boy nearly skipped around him, more than pleased with himself. "I don't know, do you know what kind of stuff is in town around here? Something interesting?"
He grinned and it grew at the showing of the hand."Dude a book is interesting to you." He shook his head but the grin never left. "Fine, I will be you tour guide." He saluted. His brows contorted in thought before he reached out and pulled the others arm in the direction he wanted to go.
"What can I say? Books are interesting, given the right genre." Kavi said as the other took a hold of his arm and started to tug him away. "You don't have to pull me to follow, I'm not a child you know," He told Fabio as he picked up his pace so he was keeping up without having to be drug along.
Fabio merely grinned but he relaxed his grip on the other. "But the buddy system and single file lines." His head seemed to bob to a tune only Fabio could hear. "I know that is why the first stop on the tour is the city library, the main branch."
"Really, buddy-system? You are definitely meant to be a teacher." Kavi commented as he noticed the odd head bob the other had going on before returning hid gaze to where they were heading. "Perfect. While we're there you can find a copy of my book for me, so I can finish reading."
"Yes, though it doesn't work if both buddies are lost, so I will be your guide and you can be my buddy and it will work." He said his head continuing to move though now he was silently mouthing words to a song. "Oh and I don't remember what its called." He said letting his shoulders rise and fall in a shrug.
"Don't worry, I know the name of the book, I'l tell it to you when we get there." His attention was stolen away again by the head bobbing, and reaching forward he placed a hand on the back of the head, stilling it. "Why do you keep bobbing your head like that? It's annoying."
Fabio just laughed at the other, they must have made for a strange sight as the other had his hand on the crown of his head, and he had one of his hands pulling the other along. While his head was stilled, his body started moving as if it was dancing. He pulled him close as his hips gyrated against the other, moving in a salsa like movement. "Is this better?"
As soon as they other turned to him and relinquished his grip on his arm, he removed his hand from the back of the still stilled head. Being pulled close, he boy reached forward, placing his hands onto Fabio's shoulders before pushing him away. "No, it's not better. Just go back to your annoying head bobbing, just leave me out of it," He said, straightening his shirt and coat.
Fabio bounced a head a little laughing. He dug his head in his pockets When he finally stopped he dared a glance him. Instead of bobbing his head, this time fabio stuck to kicking a can down the street as they continued to make their way to the library. He pointed out land marks to the other and places where public transit could be found.
As they started to near the library, Kavi was surprised by how large it actually was. "So the quickest way here from our dorm would be to walk, take the bus, or take the subway?" He asked Fabio as he stepped forward to kick the can away from him before his foot sent it skipping across the sidewalk.
Another shrug rolled off his body. "Its what you prefer or what you have time for dude. I'm a fast walker and well..." He emptied his pockets. "I usually don't have change for the bus." He walked pass the other and opened the doors. This time he did not repeat what he said earlier merely chuckled.
He nodded an understanding as he dug his hands into his pockets, offering them a warm break from the chilly weather. Stepping closer to the door, he was once again beat to opening the door, and offered nothing to Fabio at the chuckle. Without a second thought he went off to get a better look at the library.
Before the other could fully escape he tugged on his arm "Come find me when your done, and don't forget we aren't spending all day here." He let him go again. Fabio found himself naturally wondering to his favorite sections the first being the childrens section.
Again he nodded before wandering off. Wandering in and out of the endless isle of books he could that everything was neat and tidy, and organized as books should be. Before long he found himself with a few books to check out, and a library card for the library before he set out to find his roommate. He searched high and low, and finally he realized the only place he hadn't looked was the children's section. Begrudgingly he strode into the brightly colored section, littered with books and toys. Sidestepping around everything, he took note of Fabio sitting with a number of children all around, all listening as he read a book to them. Offering little more than a bored look, he took a seat near the back and waited patiently for his roommate to finish.
He finished reading the page and showed the book to the children so that they could see the illustrations. Fabio was about to read another page when he saw a rather large child join the group and smiled at his roommate before continuing to read the rest of the book. Once the impromptu story time was over, the group of kids disbanded with a gleeful groans, scampering to waiting parents just beyond the carpet. Fabio rose from the rocking chair peering down at the stack of books. “Did you enjoy story time?
With story time coming to an end, Kavi watched the children head off before he turned his attention to his approaching roommate. "Yes, i suppose I did, though children books are so trivial." He said, accepting the hand as he stood from his spot on the floor. "As for food, I wouldn't mind eating. Did you have something in mind?"
As they left, Fabio managed to add two childrens books to Kavi's stack while the other was looking over a title he expected to read. When they left, Fabio still had no real plans for lunch, just that he was hungry. His lackadaisical schedule always led his lunch to be breakfast. They were close enough to the park that it was perfect especially for the brisk autumn weather. "Theres a stand in the park, great stuff." He nodded leading the other under the canopy of red leaves.
He didn't really feel as though he had much of a choice in the matter, not that he really minded food from stands. So, without many qualms, he followed behind Fabio towards the park. "So how do you know your way around so well? Have you lived in the area long?" He asked as he idly looked over the library books in hand, scowling as he noticed the children books Fabio had slipped in.
"Yeah my mom and I have an urban bunglow just outside of the city. I guess I've been here..." He started counting things on his fingers. "About 5 years." He dug his hands in his pockets, this time when his head moved it was only a slight bob. "What about you and your folks?"
"We live up in Massachusetts, and I've only been staying around here for a week, so I don't know my way around the city at all." He explained as he tucked the books beneath his arm, having seen enough of the cotton candy colors splattered over the front of the books. "I figure it will be easy enough to navigate my way around the city in a few weeks, its can't be that hard."