Chapter 1
To say Harley was scared was an understandment, everything was new for him, the big city, the people , the classes, the campus, and his soon to be new identity.
Of course nobody knew about it. Yet anyway, and he'll like to keep it that way. The only person he would've tell is now dead, nothing he can do about that. He suposses someone would find out about it eventually though, but for now it's his thing, his project (and Tony's idea.)
He was walking with a hundread bags over to the stairs when a tall girl with dark hair aproched him.
"Hi, welcome to campus, my name is Kate and im here to be of help for this year's new students, do you happen to know your room's number?" She said the last part with a slightly worried face like it had happened to her already that someone didn't knew anything.
Harley of course wasn't the exception "Hi my name's Harley Keener, and i'm sorry i have no idea my number" She bit her lip slightly annoyed but quickly recomposed "No problem let me look in the list" and she went to talk with another girl that look her age.
Kate wasn't that much older than Harley, must be a year older, she is pale and has dark black hair that grew to her elbows, sarcastic humor and confident way to present herself. She gided him to the room 212 and help him set up the basics.
"Wel this is all i can do, now its down to your luck pal, your roomate it's gonna be here pretty soon so i'm gonna leave you to it, see you around Harley" the boy raised his head "Well thanks for everything, see you around Kate" she waved and closed the door.
Harley gets to choose the bed, he picks the one closest to the window. The room is considerably big for a college bedroom, it was one room with two beds one bathroom, two desks and other furniture, but it had a pretty decent amount of space to walk and lay on the floor if somebody wanted, amd Harley wpuld definetly do that. The blonde boy kept unpacking while he waited for his roomate.
Meanwhile Peter Parker was completly lost at the furthest part of the campus
he figured he might need help, so he decided to ask the nearest person who looked like they knew their way around, he aproached a girl with long hair and sunglasses.
"Hi sorry to bother you, do you happen to know where room 212 is? tower "Rogers" i think" her eyes lit up "Are you Peter Parker?" she said. It was nice to hear somebody knowing who he was.
But it make him curious "Why?" he asked.
"You're Harley's roomie, let me show you the place" and he followed her.
They got awfully quickly to the dorm, Peter was trying to slow the walk but Kate talked and walked and didn't get the memo. She was saying something about a party this weekend that her friend Amy and her were going, and she said that Peter could come too, and bring Harley because she forgot to tell him. He didn't even see him yet, Peter guessed that's how college worked.
They were standing in front of the door and Kate knocked three times, a tall blonde boy with big eyes answered, the boys locked eyes for a few seconds and then he moved his gaze to the girl, the dark haired girl was staring at them both "I'm here to bring you your roomate" Peter thought the floor was interestimg suddenly "Hi again Kate, come in guys, i'm Harley by the way" he gestured to the room "and you must be Peter?" he added.
Peter walked across the room paying attention to every detail, he didn't listen the comment of the boy, so when he turned around Kate and Harley were looking at him expectant. "Oh i'm so sorry, my name's Peter Parker" the boys shake hands.
"Harley i asked Peter to tell you, but since i'm here i can tell you myself, there's a party this weekend at a frat house you guys should totally come it'll be fun, first party of the year it's gonna be great" she said
"I mean sure! it's not like i have anything else to do really" Harley laughed and looked at him, Peter could swore the boy laughed in slow motion "What about you Pete?" the girl said "i'm gonna think about it, thanks though".
The rest of the day passed akwardly slow, getting used to sleep in the same room than a stanger is hard but Peter has the feeling that he could grow fond of Harley.
The next morning Peter is the first to wake up, classes won't start until monday so they have a few days to enjoy the campus, and he wanted to be sure he can move around the place without getting lost again. He silently grabbed a few of his things and left the dorm to have breakfast.
He decided to go to a coffeeshop inside campus that seemed to be cool, there wasnt a lot of people anywhere since it was saturday morning and in college, everyone was still digesting the drinks from last night. Peter was now in front of the cashier who asked him what he wanted, he paid and sit.
The campus was amazing, Peter had a rough year everybody on earth hated him and then they all forgot he existed at all, now everything was a lot, he felt alone. But he decided to enter college since he couldn't do much of anything, he might met some nice people and hopefully forget about his other life too, but not about May, he missed her everyday.
Peter wanted to make friends but he felt so selfish about it, what's the point? he would just endanger them, it's not worth it he thought, but each day he felt worse , so the best way was to study so he wouldn't think of anything else.
But he had the feeling he would like Harley, that he was nice, and that he would undertan him, but Peter doesn't want anyone to get hurt for his fault again.
The barista wake him up from his daydream "here's your coffee..emm" she look for the name in the cup "..Peter " and gave me a smile "Thank you so much" the girl make her way to the bar but suddenly she came back in her steps and Peter raised his gaze to look at her, she was a conventionally atractive girl, long light brown hair, big lashes and rosy lips "sorry to bother you again" Peter noticed her cheeks getting pink " It doesn't bother me at all, what happened?" her eyes grew like she wasn't expecting anything from her comment "oh nothing i was just wondering if you heard about the party tonight?" and she await for an answer.
"Yeah i did are you going?" they locked eyes for a second " yes a few friends organize it, i'll see you tonight then" The girl was flirting with Peter "see you tonight".
Peter was gonna go to a party, so much for keeping low profile, but one party couldn't hurt.
Harley woke up a few hours later and the brown haired's boy bed was already made, Peter was a morning boy.
The blonde boy decided that it was a good time to start his day and went to the school library to read a few books about some specifics he was worried about, he wondered what his roomate was majoring in, how did he not ask?
The boy grabbed the books and sit a table where a blond girl was sitting, she was to inmersed in her book to pay any mind to Harley, and he also almost didn't noticed she was there until he hear mumbling and realized the girl without noticing started to read in whispers. Harley listened and recognized it so he figured why not make conversation the girl seemed nice. "That's a great book" the poor girl almost jumped, maybe the tone was a bit loud compared to the slight whispers the girl was making before. "I'm sorry you scared me, have you read it already?" her doe eyes wide open "Yea finished it a month ago or so, not really my style but i enjoyed it a lot" the was an akward silence "So what's your name?" the blonde girl put her hair behind her ear "I'm Gwen, just got here yesterday" she said "I'm Harley and same, just trying to kill some time" the girl nodded and laughed. They kept talking for an hour.
When they were leaving Harley decided to ask "Hey are you going to the party tonight?" and Gwen half smiled "i wasn't gonna go but a friend is trying to convince me" Harley looked up from the floor "i will convince you too" the girl laughed and left the library.
First day succes Harley thought to himself.