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Jeff didn't know why he still goes with Thad's ideas.

It's going to be fun he said. You're going to meet people from other countries he said. It had been an exciting idea, applying to Dalton's welcome committee to exchange students, but now that he was assigned to someone he wasn't that sure.

What did he know about the boy?

He was from a place called Portugal – Jeff was awful at geography, he couldn't even point Ohio in a map- and he didn't even have a normal Portuguese name. Who the hell is called Nicholas Duval from a Latin country?

Though, he still had to pick the boy up at the airport in an hour. He sighed as he grabbed his keys from his night stand, leaving his dorm behind. He had cleaned it up a bit, now that he was going to have a dorm mate, but it was still a bit messy.

Nick wasn't nervous, at least he wasn't when he had said goodbye to his parents and had passed through the gates to the plane.

He had slept the whole journey, but now the plane was landing and Nick couldn't help but wonder if people would like him, if he was going to fit in. From the States to Portugal was a long ride so if he didn't fit in he would have to wait anyway, and that was starting to make him nervous.

He got out of the plane with everyone else. It was going to be fine, he tried to assure himself. But what if people bullied him because he was bisexual? Nick shook his head, he didn't have to tell them. Nick waited for his bags patiently wondering how his new roommate would be.

Okay, maybe Jeff was like half an hour late.

He hoped the plain delayed a bit or he would have to kill Trent for not knowing how to park his goddamn car!

He locked his car and ran to the arrivals.

People gave him odd looks as he ran on the parking lot. Of course why was the preppy school boy in an airport, in his uniform?

He went to the screens that showed the times of the flights and found that the plane had landed 20 minutes ago.

Okay, with the time they took to catch their bags Jeff hadn't missed the boy. He went slowly to the railings and leaned on them, trying to discover the boy as he came from the sliding door, not having anything to identify himself.

The bags took long to arrive and when they did Nick search for his quickly, whoever had come to pick him up should be waiting for him for a while now, and he didn't want to make him wait more, it would be rude.

As he had his bag Nick made his way to the arrivals port. But something popped in his mind, how would he know who was the person from the school who had come to pick him up? No one had sent a picture or a description! As Nick passed the sliding door he found that he didn't have to worry about the last part at all. The boy who had come to pick him up had the school's uniform on so he was easy to spot. He was blond and very good looking though he seemed slightly annoyed with something. Nick walked towards him biting his lip nervously. Was he mad because Nick had took too long?

What if the boy doesn't even know how to speak English? Jeff sighed as he started to think, playing with his tie.

He would have to use his awful Spanish to communicate and he knew he would probably say something to offend the boy.

He looked down at his watch. It was time for the boy to arrive! Jeff had been late, but he had been there for half twenty minutes already.

Also, he wished he had done a bit of research on the boy's country so he didn't seem ignorant.

As Nick approached the blond he coughed awkwardly "Um... Hi! You are from Dalton Academy, right?" He asked the blond with a small shy smile on his face.

Jeff jumped when he was addressed to. He looked up and straightened up "Uhm, si!" Okay Jeff he spoke English you don't need to make an ass out Of yourself! "Uhm, sorry! Yeah I am, I'm Jeffrey Sterling but you can call me Jeff" He smiled his usual dashing smile.

He looked at the boy and was actually impressed. He was a bit shorter than him, but was broader. He had tanned skin and shaggy brown hair, like he just got out of the beach. He had warm eyes that showed a bit of apprehension and strong features.

Nick raised an eyebrow as the other spoke in Spanish. Did Dalton receive the wrong information and thought Nick was Spanish? "Hi, I am Nicholas Duval, I am the exchange student from Portugal." He said not putting too much emphasis on the name of his country. Seeing him closer Jeff was actually very beautiful, he had brown welcoming eyes, a cute nose with some freckles and his pink lips were curled in a contagious smile.

Jeff was confused why he said Portugal the way he did. Maybe it's because of the accent "Nice to meet you Nicholas" Jeff extended his hand at him, over the railings.

"Please, call me Nick." Nick said reaching for Jeff's hand and shaking it lightly "Shall we go? To Dalton, I mean?"

"Oh yeah, sorry!" Jeff motioned him to go down the ramp and Jeff waited for him at the end "Want help?" he pointed at the bags, that looked heavy. Well he was going to stay there for almost a year, of course he would bring a lot of stuff.

"Nah, it's okay." Nick waved it away "They are not that heavy."

Jeff shrugged and ignored him, grabbing the biggest of the 4 bags "Ohio hospitality, or Dalton manners, as you wish" Jeff smiled "So, let's go? Classes start tomorrow and I still have to show you around," Jeff motioned to the general direction of the parking lot

Nick rolled his eyes as Jeff took one of the bags out of his hands. Apparently his worries had been in vain, Jeff looked like a very nice guy "Yes, sure." Nick said before started walking towards the direction Jeff had pointed still he let himself stay a little behind so Jeff could lead the way.

Okay maybe Jeff should have grabbed a smaller bag. He had to drag this one with the wheels because it was too heavy. Thankfully his big car was right there and he didn't had to walk much "This is my car" He said as he unlocked it and opened the trunk, grabbing his first bag and putting it inside.

Nick actually seemed nice. At least he wasn't annoying or anything, so he was looking forward to share a room with him and learn more about him and from where he came from. Maybe Thad was right, maybe he would have fun.

Nick started loading the truck of the jeep with his bags "Nice car." He said giving a look to the car.

Jeff helped putting the bags in the trunk and smiled as he closed the door "Thanks, sweet sixteen birthday present," He shrugged and walked to the driver's seat.

Nick nodded lightly, of course, for the Americans the sixteenth birthday was his eighteenth "Very nice present." Nick smiled and walked to the passenger seat and stepped inside the car.

Jeff sat down and putted on his seat belt "So, Nick, what brings you here?" he started the car "I mean, coming from, sorry my ignorance, a place I only heard of yesterday, to good 'ol States?" He got out of the parking lot and looked at Nick with a smile.

Nick on put his seat belt and shrugged. "I want to come here for college so I figured it would be nice to finish my high school here." Nick look through the window. The reality finally hitting him, he was in America, not Europe anymore. Everything was different here.

"Cool, cool. Oh," he made a funny face "What's up with your name? Nick sounds English not Portuguese..."

"My dad is American." Nick explained. "My mum is Portuguese. And 'si' is Spanish." He chuckled.

Jeff raised a brow "You don't speak S-" he sighed "Of course you don't, sorry!" he smiled apologetically "You must think I'm one of those Americans."

"First, I kind of speak Spanish, so yes. I chose it over French. And second the fact that you didn't appear with a big beer belly and eating doughnuts broke the image of those Americans." Nick joked.

"That's because you never saw me at a party" he smirked "Well, more like beer in hand, I'm really proud of my abs" he smiled. "At least I tried...Spanish really isn't my strength" he shrugged.

Nick laughed. "Nice to know... So are all the people in Dalton aware that Portugal and Spain are different countries or it was really just you?" Nick joked and turned to Jeff grinning.

"Probably just me." Jeff sighed dramatically "There's a reason Geography is my lowest grade!"

"Não me digas..." Nick mumbled rolling his eyes with the grin still on his face.

"What?" Jeff turned to Nick with a confused expression.

"Sorry, 'you don't say'. That's the meaning of what I said..." Nick looked apologetically at Jeff. He would still have to get used to the fact now he could only speak English.

"I thought you were insulting me in your language for a second" Jeff laughed "I have to get used to Portuguese right? So I know when you're saying bad things about me!" he winked.

Nick laughed. "Good luck with that." Nick said still laughing a little. "But if I ever look upset, then yes I am probably saying bad things about something or someone." Nick looked through the window again. Everything looked so different than his home, but he liked it. He felt like he could start over. Also if everyone was like Jeff, it would be nice. He would get along just fine.

"Guess you have to teach me a few words then! And you don't need to be upset, Dalton is very calming," he sighed "Too calm sometimes!" Jeff liked this guy, he was easy going, but he didn't have many expectations before so he was a nice surprise.

"Sure you just have to tell which words you want to know…" Nick said smiling a little. It would be funny to see the blond trying to learn Portuguese.

"You know, the usual; basic sentences and the swears!" he grinned mischievously.

"Sure" Nick laughed "It shall be fun to see you try to speak Portuguese" he grinned.

"Yeah..." Jeff laughed "I'm awful at accents and difficult words. You can talk though, your accent is cool!" He pointed out of the widow "There's the stadium, awesome concerts and games there!" he said excitedly. He was ecstatic for the hockey season to start so he could buy tickets for the season.

"Well, I do hope my accent is not too bad!" Nick chuckled "Um… Nice! What kinds of sports do you like?" he asked, casually looking at the big stadium

"Nah accents are cool. You can actually speak really good English" he smiled "Uhm, football, hockey and lacrosse. I guess that's pretty much it. You?"

"Thanks. And soccer, rugby, tennis and hockey" Nick smiled. "Though hockey it's not a very famous sport in Portugal"

"Soccer, I've heard about it. You guys call it football in Europe right?" Jeff looked at Nick. He was sounding kind of ignorant and he hoped the boy wouldn't get a bad impression of him. Jeff was like that. He never made a good impression and when he did it was with people who couldn't care less.

"Yeah," Nick nodded. "It's a quite popular sport in Portugal. And quite is an understatement." Nick rolled his eyes playfully.

"How much of an understatement?" Jeff teased. He actually liked to hear him talk so he just spiked him.

"Let's just say that every little boy in Portugal dreams about being a soccer player." Nick grinned. "Then they wake up and change their opinion, of course some continue to train to be soccer players and they make it, but yeah..."

"Cool! I guess here might be the same? I don't know, I love hockey and lacrosse and I wanted to be a player when I was a kid, but I don't know," Jeff shrugged "Do you want to be a soccer player?" he asked, finally turning into Westerville in the highway. The trip back to Dalton was a lot shorter than the one to the airport. Maybe because he was enjoying himself a lot more.

Nick laughed. "When I was six, yes... Not anymore, but I still play though."

"That's cute!" he smiled "So… This is Westerville! Your new home for the next 9 months and if you don't get tired of my untidiness and beg for an exchange of rooms I can show you around. I know all the cool spots!" he smiled and pointed at few places. The park, the ice cream shop and other places he liked to be with his friends.

"That would be nice." Nick said looking through the window the city where he would live for the next school year. "I would like to know the place around, so I can walk and run and yeah..." Nick stopped talking, now that he was getting closer to the school he was starting to get nervous again and when he was nervous he started rambling. It was something he didn't like in him because he felt like everyone else just got bored with him so he always tried to shut himself quickly.

"Dalton is in the outskirts actually. You have the forest to run in. I'm pretty sure some of the guys gather and go run. You can join them, I don't think they would mind" Jeff drummed his fingers on the wheel "So, are you excited?" he turned to Nick.

"Nice..." Nick said. "I am actually pretty nervous now." He said biting his lip. "It's not every day you arrive to a new school in a new country with completely different people who don't even speak your language." Nick said nervously.

"You'll be fine!" Jeff playfully punched his arm "But it sounds exciting, getting away from everything, leaving your parents..."

"Yeah, but at the same time no support at all for 9 freaking months! In that time my sister could get pregnant and have the baby!" Nick said getting more nervous by the second. Why was he getting so nervous? He couldn't even think straight about it.

"Since they stuck us together I'm here to help you, though I can't prevent your sister from getting pregnant!" he tried to ease the other boy, he could see he was really nervous about all this.

Nick took a deep calming breath. "I'm sorry, I guess I am just tired." He said looking through the window and trying to control his nerves.

"It's okay" Jeff reassured "We're almost there!" he said, turning his eyes back to the road in front of him.

Nick tapped his fingers nervously on his lap, what if the others weren't like Jeff? I mean, they wouldn't be exactly like him but what if they would just left Nick behind because he wasn't from there?

"And we're here!" Jeff said dramatically as he got inside the gates of his school.

Nick took a deep breath and looked around. Whoa this place was huge! He was going to get lost in the beginning, it would be impossible not to!

"Beautiful, right?" Jeff parked again, tempted to block Trent's car, but he parked correctly. He didn't like to hear Trent scream at him, even though the other Warbler deserved it. He took of his belt and went to the back, starting to take the bags outs "You coming?" he asked, the brunet still inside the car.

Nick blinked twice before answering. "Yes, of course!" He said getting out of the car quickly and walking around it to the back of it. "Yeah it is beautiful...!" He said in a low tone.

"You haven't seen the inside yet!" he grinned to him, taking the last bag out and closing the trunk.

Nick nodded and started pulling his bags towards the big building in front of him, it was completely stunning. Nick looked around to the gardens that were very well kept and were beautiful, after them Nick could see the forest peaking out, yeas it looked like a nice place to run.

Jeff helped Nick carrying the bags, leading him around the main building to the campus behind it. It would be a bit mean to put Nick in the center of the school, even though everyone was getting back into their dorm.

Nick followed Jeff looking around his new home for the next months. "It's actually stunning." He mumbled after a while.

Jeff pushed the dorms so Nick could enter the long hallways "I know; boring but heaven like!" he kept the door open so Nick could pass.

Nick passed through the door. "Thanks, what is our room, by the way? No one actually told me..."

"Room 136 on the first floor, this way," Jeff led Nick towards the stairs.

Nick followed Jeff trying to learn the way so he wouldn't get lost.

Thankfully the room was one f the firsts on the 1st floor so they didn't have to walk much "This is it!" he stopped in from of room 136 "I'm sorry for the mess" he rubbed the back of his neck awkwardly "I'm not used to share a room." he took out his keys and opened the door.

Nick was distracted so he was about to walk the whole hallway but then Jeff stopped and he snapped out of his thoughts to stop too. "Don't Worry about that. I am used to the mess." He rolled his eyes. Jeff opened the door and Nick took a look to his new room it was slightly Bigger than he had expected, and it wasn't too messy, it was normal. "It's not messy." He said glancing at Jeff and starting to pull his Things inside.

"Wait a week and we'll talk!" he laughed and pulled the bags he brought inside "That's your bed," he pointed to the right one against the wall "It hasn't been used for 2 years, maybe by my clothes but that doesn't count," he tried to keep the mood up, he knew how the other was nervous about the change.

Nick nodded and put his bags on the floor and then threw himself to the bed. "It's comfy." He yawned. The tiredness of the long journey was starting to hit him. Here it was just eight in the afternoon but back in Portugal was one a.m. "Do we really have to go see the school now?" He asked.

"Not really. It's late anyway and you look tired" Jeff placed his keys in the nightstand and smiled at the tired boy "I'm going to the kitchens and then I'll go to Trent and Thad's for a while so you can have a bit of privacy." he took off his blazer and his tie, placing them on his desk chair, and headed to the door "Want me to bring anything before I go?"

"Okay," Nick yawned again. "No, I'm fine, thanks." He said crawling a bit on the bed to be lay down properly, but he couldn't fall asleep just yet. "See you tomorrow, probably." He mumbled.

"Okay, just call me if you want anything, I'm down on 158" he waved as he got out of the room.

Nick waved and dropped the hand heavily on the bed. He was getting more tired by the second, but he still had to unpack some things. He sat up and opened the biggest bag where he had all his clothes, he walked to the nearest closet and opened it, it was empty so it was probably for him, he grabbed a bunch of clothes and put them on the closet. Fortunately it didn't took long so then he grabbed his pyjamas and put it on before crawling under the covers and falling asleep almost instantly but too tired to actually think of anything.

Jeff went downstairs to grab some food. He settled with a chicken sandwich and he found a ham one in the fridge. The kitchen was brand new, no one seemed to have used it and it was still clean, something that didn't happen in a boy's dorm for too long.

He could bring that sandwich to Nick, it wouldn't hurt him and if he was indeed hungry he wouldn't have to wake Jeff. He put it on his pocked and climbed the stairs again; taking bites on his own sandwich and saying hi to the boys inside their rooms as he walked pass his dorm and went to Thad and Trent's.

He knocked on the familiar door and was greeted by Trent "I swear Trent if I had been late I would have blocked your car on the way back!" Jeff threatened with a grin, but he actually wasn't kidding. Trent just gave a nervous laugh and let him in.

Thad was on his computer on his bed and Trent must have been doing the same "So," Jeff flopped down next to Thad "He's cool!" he stated with a smile and small shrug.

"Is he cute?" Trent had already sat down and was looking at him excited. That is Trent everybody, not caring if someone was nice or friendly. Just hot.

"Yes, Trent he's cute, but if he's gay I call dibs!" he joked with a wink.

"You don't know if he's gay?" Trent asked a bit shocked.

"No..." Jeff said softly, confused to why Trent was acting like that.

"And you didn't ask dumbass?" Trent rolled his eyes.

"Of course not Trent!" Jeff shook his head and Thad smiled. He was used to his roommate's antics "Hey I just met you and this is crazy but are you into guys, maybe?" Jeff rolled his eyes at him.

Back in the room Nick was having a nice dream. He was on the beach with his friends, something he really loved to do but now he doubted it would happen soon, Westerville didn't have any beach near it. He was in a deep sleep because even if he had slept on the plane this kind of journeys always took too much of him.

"No Trent, you're not going to annoy him," Jeff sighed, throwing a pillow from Thad's bed to Trent's face

"Why? Jealous that he'll like me better?" Trent winked and this time another pillow hit him right in the face.

"No asshole, he's tired, he had a long day, let him sleep!"

"Trent, c'mon lay off him," Thad said in his usual calm tone "Aren't you head over heels with the French exchange? Sebastian I think?" Thad teased and Jeff high fived him.

"Oh mon amour!" Jeff sang and batted his eyelashes and Trent threw him a death glare

"Shut up!" he pouted and crossed his arms over his chest, which made the other two just laugh.

It was around 11p.m when Jeff yawned and Trent almost kicked him out of the room. They all needed to sleep, school was starting tomorrow and they had to wake up early.

He entered his room quietly, finding Nick already sleeping. He placed the sandwich on the brunet's nightstand and walked to his closet, taking some shorts and a loose shirt.

He took the rest of his uniform and dressed it, turning off the lamp Nick had left on and crawling into bed. He was tired and didn't want school to begin tomorrow at 9 a.m. He wanted the summer to never end so he could wake up at midday or something. He groaned before he fell asleep.

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