The Welcome Wagon (Dustin)

[Jeff McIntosh]

It wasn't every day that a new student arrived at Hammel, particularly one who had immediately joined the soccer team, and so Jeff was curious. Curious, and perhaps a little bit excited. Coach had told everyone that the new student was fourteen, which was only a year older than David was; perhaps Jeff missed his youngest sibling just a little, and so he had promptly asked his Coach which room to expect this Dustin in and made his way there. 

He grimaced when he realized that the new student was in the co-ed dorms rather than the boy's wing. Well, no matter. Hopefully Dustin himself would answer the door, rather than his roommates. 

In preparation for welcoming the new addition to the team he had gone to the drugstore and bought junk food -- Oreos, of course, and also several boxes of snack cakes from Swiss rolls to marshmallow pies to zebra cakes. And, of course, a bottle of  Texas Pete, and two bottles of lemonade. 

He had not bothered to arrange these goodies in any way, however; no gift basket, no fancy box. He hadn't even taken them out of the brown paper bag the cashier had placed them in. 

He gripped the bag with one hand, knocking on the door to the dorm room with the other. 

"'Llo?" He called out, as if that might speed up door answering. "Is Dustin here?" 

[Dustin Henderson]

It had been a bit overwhelming for Dustin today, at first he had been wanting to relax, which didn’t work out when he met a few people, so he had spent some time alone in his room after socializing and just ended up feeling restless.

He had already been outside running earlier, but he figured it wouldn’t hurt to go out for a jog again, at least people would leave him alone then, maybe it was the closest to relaxing without getting restless he would get.

He couldn’t wait until he got to start soccer practice, nothing would help him settle in and feel comfortable like a good time on the soccer field. A part of him hoped the others weren’t that good so that he could impress them, he was a pretty talented striker and loved the feeling of scoring goals.

After his jog, he headed back to the dorm. He saw the guy who was knocking on the door, he assumed it was probably a friend or maybe even boyfriend of Cici from his dorm, he could imagine this guy being her type.

“Hey, I can check if Cici is in her room for you” he said as he approached, walking past him as he opened the door and stepped inside. He looked at the guy “I don’t really know my other roommate if it’s him you’re looking for” he shrugged and took a swig of the water bottle he had been holding.