Bab 10: Moving Into A Co-Ed Dorm
Early in the morning, a young man was carrying bags out of his home and placing them in the back seat of his car. Closing the door, he walked back inside to find a beautiful white woman with brown hair laying on the couch as she watched the news with a sleepy expression.
"Mom, everything is in the car so we can leave anytime." The tan-skinned young man, Damian, said as he sat in a chair on the side of the room and went into his phone and texted his friends.
"Do you have everything?" His mother asked.
"Yes, I have everything" Damian answered with a smile. As he saw that Kai responded in their group chat saying he had already left and was stopping to grab a coffee.
"Good, let's go then. You can drive." She said as she stood up from the couch in her denim jeans and white top. As she sleepily walked to the front door, the quickly declining temperature as she reached it, had woken her up completely.
"Did you really get everything?" She asked as she grabbed her jacket hanging on the wall and put it on.
"Yes I did, come on mom, I would like to get there early so I can unpack all of my things," Damian said as he stood up from the chair and turned off the tv.
Looking around his living room, he felt a bit sad that he was leaving and going to college. He had made many memories in this home. Although they were mostly of his mother, he has a vague memory of his father that was probably from an early time in his life.
"You know that you can come back anytime right? This is still your home, Damian." His mother said, seeing him looked around the room in a reminiscent daze. "Come on, let's get going." She said again, waking him from his short stupor.
Leaving his home, Damian took a final look at it before starting his car and driving away, with his mother in the passenger seat.
Around thirty minutes into the drive, his mother made sure to remind him of things, as the world was changing rapidly around them.
"Damian, remember to be careful when you are out and about. The number of strains between D and A-class has increased by almost a hundred." She suddenly said as she raised her head from its resting spot against the window.
"Mom, the excess energy radiating from Pandora's box can only create 3 or 4 strains a day. With only three months have passed since the box landed and the strains were first created, after the seven Kings, the total number of strains doesn't even pass half a thousand total.
If you factor in the military dealing with one's that are causing problems in society, there is an extremely low chance to run into a strain, and even a king for that matter." Damian said confidently with a smile on his face.
During the past few months, he had joined the group chat a few times and spoke to the red and pink kings mostly. The other colored kings had shown up after some time but they had all opted to lurk and only speak in small amounts.
As he was thinking of this, he heard his mother speak again.
"Even so, you can never be too sure what will happen. Fate likes to play cruel games with people." Hearing his mother mention fate, he, for a split second, felt a feeling of loneliness and sorrow but it disappeared almost as quickly as it appeared.
"What the hell was that…" He asked himself as he wondered why he had that extremely fleeting feeling.
"Damian, do you know exactly what separates the different strain classes?" His mother asked as she reclined in the seat a bit as Damian drove a bit over the speed limit and changed lanes on the highway.
"Well, according to those scientists, D class strains are only slightly stronger than bodybuilders. C class strains are able to use some random powers and also can stop moving vehicles if they put in the effort. B class strains are able to destroy small buildings with stronger powers like that one guy who could make miniature earthquakes with him being the center.
A Class strains are able to simply destroy small buildings and enhance their body to move faster than what most normal people can react to, in addition to their other powers. They are extremely hard to capture and depending on their ability, they need to be taken down by another A class or even an S class."
"Where did S class come from? You said before that strains were D to A class"
"I did say that, but above the strains are the seven kings, They are S class individuals who are rumored to have enough power to wipe out an entire city off of the map."
(You already know this is true! You remember what I told you about the battle on Raya don't you?) Zera said, but not wanting to lose his train of thought, Damian continued his explanation.
The king's clansmen are given powers as well and use a similar power ranking to strains. So the Kings are extremely powerful individuals who deserve a tier higher than A, understand?" Damian asked as he linked together some of his chat room history with his own experiments.
"Well either way, strain or king, you need to do your best to avoid them, they bring nothing but trouble...." His mother said tiredly before she falling asleep again.
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Finally making it to his destination after two hours of driving. Damian smiled as he took in the nice view of the school's atmosphere. As he arrived he instantly spotted a massive parking lot that could rival a popular mall.
Driving over to it, he saw hundreds of cars, both expensive and cost-effective, parked in the spots closest to the massive building with signs pointing towards it saying "co-ed dorm."
Finding a spot after driving past people moving about holding bags and rolling around suitcases of all sizes. Damian finally turned off the vehicle and shook his mother lightly, causing her to stir awake slowly.
"Mmm... are we here?" She asked with a yawn to which Damian simply replied with a nod before stepping out of the car and taking in the fresh air. Watching people roll small carts that they used to transport their televisions and mini-refrigerators, Damian quickly messaged Kai and Ari on his phone.
They had already made plans to help each other move into their rooms so after getting a reply from both asking where he parked, he quickly gave them the general location. After about twenty minutes, they met up with Damian and greeted his mother before helping him move all of his things.
Damian enjoyed the peaceful atmosphere the school created with the large path of white stone going under small trees as large fields of grass covered the sides.
Finally making it into the western-style, multi-storied building that served as the co-ed dorm, they found his room on the third floor and saw that his roommate had already moved in.
"It's a girl?" His mother asked as she quickly scanned over the pink and black suitcases on the floor and the female clothing laying on the bed in the far corner of the room.
"Lucky..." Kai said softly as Ari quickly glared at him before placing Damian's bag on the open bed in the opposite corner of the room.
"I thought that your roommate would be Kai, what's going on Damian?" His mother asked as he flashed a wry smile when she focused her gaze on him.
"Well, you see…" Damian said as he prepared to explain what the three friends had thought up, but was instead interrupted by a gentle voice from the direction.
"Umm… Excuse me…" The gentle voice said, causing everyone to turn toward the source. Seeing a beautiful young woman standing in the doorway. everyone was shocked as Damina's mother asked the young woman why she was standing there.
"Me?… well this is my new dorm room, I was waiting for my roommate Damina to show up." She said as she stepped past the small group of people and sat on the bed that had her clothes laid out on it.
"Damina?" Damian asked as he looked towards his mother who was similarly as confused.
"Is this not your room Damian?" She asked as everyone turned towards him.
Quickly taking out his phone, Damian opened the school's app and went to his housing accommodations. Seeing the room number he received with the room number outside of the room and told everyone it was the same number.
"Really? So it's a misspelling of your name? How unlucky…" The young woman on the bed said as she looked at the group of people.
"So what are you going to do Damina?" Kai asked as Ari simply looked at the young woman on the bed.
"I don't mind if you stay here, it is your room is it not?" The young woman said causing everyone to turn their eyes to her.
"Are you serious young lady? Damian is not a girl, he cannot stay in this room with you. We will go and get this changed right now" His mother said as she began walking to the door.
"Mom… I don't mind either, the dorm is co-ed so it isn't against any rules for a male and female to share a dorm room." Damian said causing his mother to slowly fall to her knees.
"My don has been bewitched by this young beauty… How did this happen so fast!" She mumbled softly as Damian walked up to her and helped her to her feet.
"Mom, don't think too much about it, we are simply dorm mates, nothing more. Isn't that right?" Damian asked as he looked towards the young woman on the bed.
"Correct, you don't need to worry miss, nothing will happen between us." She said with a smile.
"I see… nothing better happen…" She said as she went back to helping Damian bring his things into the room, with the help of Ari and Kai. After making sure he had everything, she hugged Damian and told him to call her if there were any problems. Then, as she left the room, she glanced at the young woman as if saying to watch herself.
After Kai and Ari similarly left the room to go check and see if their dormmates had arrived, the young woman hopped off of her bed and walked to Damian.
"Nice to meet you roommate, My name is Rose." She said cheerfully as she held out her hand.
"Damian, Nice to meet you" he responded as he shook her hand and wondered why this had happened.
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