Animation vs College

Chapter 3

Green blinked at him. "Who are you?" he asked rudely.

Red smacked him and smiled brightly. "I'm Red, nice to meet you!"

The blonde just stared at them, looking lost.

"Am I... in the right place?" he asked hesitantly.

"What's your dorm?" Green asked. "And I'm Green."

"Yellow." he said, holding out his papers.

Green took and read them, nodding in confirmation. "Yep, you're with us."

Yellow took his papers back. "Right, can I come in then?"

"Sure, you do live here now." Green pointed out, wondering why the blonde was asking.

Yellow just stared at him, Green realising he'd been blocking the door.

He scrambled out the way and made a sweeping gesture to the amused blonde, Red giggling next to him. "Come on in."

"Thanks," Yellow walked past, trying not to laugh as well at Green bowing.

He went to the bedroom on the left, tucked between the kitchen and bathroom, then turned to his new roommates. "Mind if I have this one?"

"Sure," Red grinned, following to the door to find Yellow putting his stuff away. "You don't have much."

"It's more than it looks," Yellow reassured, putting what looked like a homemade alarm clock next to his bed.

"Did you make that?" Green asked, walking over and picking up the clock.

It had wires sticking out in all directions, and the face was just crumpled paper, numbers drawn on messily, as though by a child.

"Yeah, first thing I ever made." Yellow admitted, taking the potato clock back and putting it back next to the lamp, clearly protective of it.

"Do you have anything else?" Red asked hopefully.

Yellow nodded and got out a small stack of cubes fused together, it looked like something found at an art gallery; at least to the brothers.

"What's that?" Red asked.

Yellow poked something underneath and it lit up, each box in a different colour and pattern; a night light.

"Wow..." Green breathed in awe.

"How did you make that?" Red asked. "It's amazing."

"Thanks," Yellow flipped it to reveal a window showing tons of wires and some kind of red crystal, a flat button serving as the on/off switch. "So what do you two do?"

"I'm a musician," Green answered. "That's also why I'm here."

Yellow hummed.

"Green's the type to stay up all night blasting music," Red stated brightly, as though that couldn't become a problem. "You'll get used to it."

"...Should I request a different dorm?" Yellow asked warily.

Green shrugged. "If you want, I'm not that loud though."

"We should likely warn the neighbours." Red suggested.

Yellow nodded in agreement. "What do you do?" he asked, changing the subject.

"I'm a farmer!" Red answered proudly, digging through his pockets and pulling out a photo of... a pig? "This is Reuben."

"We live near a farm, and Red goes there every day to help take care of the animals." Green explained. "The people there said he can move in when he's old enough."

Red nodded excitedly in agreement. "Reuben's one of their pigs, but I love him so much! So they let me have him."

Yellow chuckled, wondering if this is how it would feel to have a little brother, despite them being the same age, Red acted like a child, or at least a lot younger than he was.

"What do you study? I know there isn't a course for farming, unless you joined horticulture," Yellow asked.

Red shook his head. "That's just growing flowers and food, I'm in the normal class," he answered, failing to realise he basically just insulted his sister.

"Normal class..." Yellow frowned, then realised he meant the mixed class, for people who didn't want to study anything in particular, or just something the college didn't teach; Red clearly being the latter. "I'm in engineering."

"Not surprising," Green said, nodding to the clock and night light.

"Anyway, who was that girl you were with before?" Red asked teasingly, having seen Green with the ginger haired girl earlier.

Green blushed, remembering his admittedly rude parting, she only wanted to hang out. "Her name's Second Coming, but she said she prefers Orange."

"There's a teacher called Orange," Yellow said, if any of them had that teacher, it would likely get confusing fast, especially if Green and Orange did start hanging out.

"That'd get confusing," Red said, thinking the same as Yellow. "Hope we don't get them."

"He teaches aeronautics." Yellow explained.

"Cool, what's that?" Green asked.

Yellow shot him an incredulous look. "Flight, planes, air."

"Oh." Green turned away, feeling stupid. It's in the name! he thought angrily.

"I didn't know either," Red reassured, smiling brightly as though proud of the fact.

Yellow just heaved a sigh, these next four years were definitely going to be interesting.