Chapter 2b:  A-ko and C-ko arrive 
	A week and a half before the semester was to start, A-ko and C-ko arrived
for the preliminary orientation of the college, so that they would be
prepared for when the semester did start.  A-ko's parents dropped off their
daughter, her best friend, and their choice belongings, in front of the
dormitory, said their good-byes, and were off back to the Magami home. 
A-ko felt a tear roll down her cheek as she watched her parents drive off, 
_Well, I finally am on my own,_ she thought, smiling.  _I worked my ass off
during the summer so I could at least *go* to college and with a little
help from Mom and Dad.  But, it still kills me as to why C-ko, of all
people, got a full college grant to any college of her choice!  And she's
got a friggin' negative grade point average!!  Oh well, I guess I'm happy
for her and I'm glad that I'm finally here._ 
	C-ko began to run around in a tight circle with her arms out stretched to
either side of her and began to sing a song about how she and A-ko would be
together forever, and how happy she was about it.  An older man, about in
his fifties, wearing a brown suit, walked over to A-ko and C-ko. 
	"Hello, I'm Tatsuo Mesimii," he offered, "I'm the Head Dean here.  Welcome
to Graviton University and Undergraduate College."  Dramatic music sounded
in the background.  "You'll have to excuse the other students, someone's
throwing a party, I'd assume." 
	"Hello, I'm Eiko Magami, pleased to meet'cha," A-ko bowed and stuck her
hand out to shake the Dean's, he returned it in kind.  He then turned to
C-ko. 
	"And you are..."  he asked. 
	"HI!!  I'M C-KO KOTOBUKI!!" she screamed, her mouth now twice the size of
her head.  "I'M SO HAPPY TO BE HERE!!" 
	"Uh, yes, of course you are," he stuttered, sticking his finger in his ear
as if to clean it out.  He looked over the clipboard he held in his hand. 
"Ah, yes.  There you are.  Come with me, I'll show you to your dorm rooms,
and then we'll get started with the orientation, okay?" 
	"Okay!" A-ko and C-ko said, in unison.  A-ko turned around to grab their
belongings that they had brought with them to the college, and lifted them
onto her back.  The Dean's eyes got really large at the sight of this, but
he quickly regained his composure and led the way into the girls'
dormitory. 
						* * * 
	In the boys' dormitory, Myles sat on the window sill looking outside,
staring at the recently-renovated girls' dormitory, the top floor had been
completely redone and there was a strange building now attached to the
dorm, on the east side of it. 
	A car pulled up outside of the dormitory, a tall, brown-haired woman, and
an equally tall dark-haired man with glasses, both had strong builds, Myles
noticed, stepped out of the front seat.  Then a blond-haired girl and a
red-haired girl stepped out from the back seat of the vehicle.  Myles
pressed his face to the window, his face completely flush against the
glass.  He then turned around, fumbled through his night-stand drawer,
grabbed his binoculars, and looked back out the window, focusing in with
the binoculars.  He then turned to look at his shrine, then turned to look
out the window again. 
	Myles pushed has face harder into the window, making it crack, then snap,
then completely break.  His face went through the window, binoculars and
all.  Good-bye's were said, belongings unloaded, the parents left, the Dean
intoduced, and the the red-haired girl picked up all of the belongings
single-handedly.  Myles knew immediately that it was her.  He then threw
the binoculars into the air, almost hitting Craig as they landed. 
	"S-S-S-SHE'S HERE!!!" he yelled, startling Kei and Craig both. 
	"Who's here?" Craig asked.  Myles dragged Craig over to his shrine, this
was the closest he had ever been to it.  Craig could see that the shrine
had many, many, MANY pictures of a red-haired girl, whom Craig recognized
from some news clips and the school dance a few years back that Myles had
been so bent over to protect, which, if Craig remembered correctly, she was
able to handle herself well, well enough in fact that after that night the
Graviton High School for Boys' was missing a gymnasium. 
	Myles then shoved Craig over to the window, put the binoculars over his
eyes, and pointed to where the red-haired girl and her blond-haired friend
were. 
	"Could it be the same girl?" Craig wondered aloud. 
	"WHAT THE HELL KIND'A QUESTION IS THAT?!??  OF COURSE IT IS!!!"  Myles
screamed excitedly, and almost unintelligibly with his Irish brogue thick,
as it always was when he got excited or angry.  Kei walked over to the
window to see what the commotion was about.  He saw the Dean opening the
door to the girls' dormitory for a red-haired girl carrying a whole lot of
boxes and suitcases and a blond-haired girl happily skipping behind her. 
Kei freaked, he immediately grabbed the binoculars from Myles and focused
in.  Kei smiled, for the first time, at least that Craig and Myles had
seen.  He then sighed, tuned around and slumped against the wall and slid
to the floor. 
	"C...ko..." was all he could utter.  Craig and Myles looked at him, then
at each other and shrugged. 
						* * * 
	"Okay, the room assignments are as follows," the Dean instructed, "C-ko,
you're in room twleve on the fourth floor, and A-ko you're in room..." but
before the Dean could finish, C-ko began to scream. 
	"I WANNA BE WITH A-KO!!!!" she shreiked.  A-ko immediately attempted to
try and calm C-ko down, but they had already attracted the unwanted
attention of other students as they stuck their heads out of their rooms
and into the hallway, looking directly at C-ko and A-ko. 
	"Alright!" the Dean yelled over C-ko's screams.  "Alright, you and A-ko
will be in room twelve, together."  The Dean sighed, _This is going to be a
loooong semester, I just know it._ 
	"YAAAAAYYYYY!!!!" C-ko yelled, and again, began to sing a song about how
she and A-ko would be together forever and how happy she was about it. 
A-ko began to blush as she heard giggles and outright laughter from the
other students.  The Dean led the way to the dorm room which was now
assigned to A-ko and C-ko, and opened the door for them.  A-ko walked in
first and unloaded herself of all she was carrying. 
	"Whew!" she sighed.  C-ko immediately ran in and jumped onto the bed
closest to the window. 
	"I want this one!" she exclaimed. 
	"Sure, sure, whatever you want," A-ko relinquished, all she wanted to do
now was sit down, catch her breath, and relax for a moment. 
	"I'll let you two get relaxed, and I'll be back in a little while.  There
is going to be a freshman orientation and tour of the campus so that you
will get to know the college in about a week, in time for the start of your
first semester."  The Dean said, turning around and walking out the door,
closing it behind him.  "Whew!" he sighed.  A-ko sat down on her bed,
stretched and let out a yawn. 
	"I'm so happy that we get to be roommates, A-ko!" C-ko exclaimed.  "It's
just like we're living together!" 
	"What?  Like we weren't before?"  A-ko joked. 
	"You look a little tense, would you like me to give you a back rub?" C-ko
asked, giving A-ko a childish smile. 
	"Sure, that'd be nice," A-ko replied.  C-ko walked over and jumped onto
A-ko's bed behind her and began to massage A-ko's shoulders.  _Ooh, this
*is* nice...much better than her lunches,_ she thought. 
	"Feeling any better?"  C-ko asked, applying a little more pressure. 
	"Much.  That's great, C-ko," A-ko sighed.  Letting herself relax under
C-ko's touch, she leaned into her.  C-ko began to work her way down A-ko's
back, massaging the muscles along her spine, and then working her way
around to her chest, and gave A-ko's firm breasts a light rub.  C-ko
stopped for a moment.  She then realized that A-ko was no longer holding
herself up and that she had fallen asleep. 
	C-ko grinned for moment, eased A-ko onto her back, and climbed off of her
bed.  She walked over to the window and stared out at the campus outside. 
_I'm glad I came here,_ she thought. 
	There was a knock at the door and A-ko immediately snapped awake.  _Oh
God!_  she thought, _I overslept!_  She looked over at C-ko who walked over
to the door to answer it.  The Head Dean of the college was standing there.

	"Are you ready to continue your orientation?" he asked. 
	"YEAH!" C-ko exclaimed, jumping in the air.  A-ko got off her bed and
followed C-ko and the Dean out of the dormitory.  A-ko caught up to C-ko. 
	"C-ko," she asked, "how long was I out?" 
	"Umm, about ten minutes, maybe?" she responded.  "You're such a sleepy
head.  You seemed to really enjoy that massage I gave you, though." 
	"Umm, yeah," A-ko blushed.  The Dean led them into a hall where about
fifty-some students, broken into groups, were standing.  A-ko assumed that
they were there for the orientation as well.  The Dean then began a speech
about the college and then began to give a grand tour of the campus, which
lasted about an hour and a half. 
						* * * 
	Craig sat at his computer desk, glancing at Kei and Myles, who just sat at
the window staring out into oblivion.  He had to do something, this was
getting ridiculous.  Then, he made up his mind. 
	"Alright, youse guys," he said, standing up from his computer and pushing
the chair back into place.  Kei continued to stare out the window, but
Myles glanced at Craig, if only for a second. 
	"Come on, we're going to the bar," Craig offered, putting on his leather
trench coat.  Myles and Kei continued to stare.  "Let's go, you guys need
to get out."  No reaction.  Craig sighed walked over behind Myles and Kei
grabbed them both by the collar of their shirts and dragged them over to
the door, he then kicked the door open and dragged them out of the dorm. 
Kei and Myles were still out of it until Craig began to drag them across
pavement. 
						* * * 
	Miss Ayumi was in her office, preparing a syllabus for her classes when
she heard the Head Dean talking out in the hallway, his voice was getting
closer.  _Orientation for some of the freshmen,_ she thought.  She had
meant to ask him a question and figured that now was as good of a time as
any.  She opened the door to her office just as the Dean had passed by it. 
Immediately, C-ko spotted her and at the top of her lungs, yelled;
"Y-A-H-O-O-O-O-O!!! Hi, Miss Ayumi!!"  Miss Ayumi's eyes went wide, and she
gritted her teeth as she slowly turned to see if it was who she had thought
it was, which she had hoped it was not...it was... 
	"Uh, why, konnichiwa, C-ko," she managed to say.  Suddenly, she realized
that where C-ko was, A-ko was sure to follow...sure enough... 
	"Hi, Miss Ayumi," A-ko said, cheerfully.  "What're you doing here?" 
	"I...uhh...transferred here from the high school after your graduation,"
she stuttered.  "I...didn't quite expect to see you both here, or at least
in college." 
	"Yeah, well, I'm happy to be here," A-ko responded.  _Even if it *wasn't*
my first choice of colleges._  Miss Ayumi, let out a small chuckle. 
	"Um, is B-ko here as well?" she asked. 
	"Oh God!  I sure hope not!" A-ko laughed.  "She's probably in some
hoity-toity university." 
	_Are they talking about the new owner?_  the Dean wondered.  _I heard
"B-ko", but I wonder if it's...it's got to be..._ 
	"Um, Dean, sir," Miss Ayumi asked.  "Could I ask you a quick question?" 
	"Sure, what is it?" he replied. 
	"Isn't it great, A-ko?" C-ko cheered.  "Miss Ayumi's here and it's just
like being back in high school...well...almost...B-ko isn't here...for
one..." 
	"For which I'm glad," A-ko retorted.   
	"...and it's alot bigger...plus everybody's older...Aaaaaannnd it's like
living at school..."  C-ko continued to ramble.  Miss Ayumi thanked the
Dean for something and ran into her office and locked the door.  Loud sobs
could be heard from inside of the office itself.  The Dean attempted to
ignore it and continued on with the orientation.  By the end of the day,
the small group of freshmen had seen the entire campus and were completely
tired out.  For the rest of the week, before the semester was to start,
they would have the entire time to explore the campus for themselves, get
to know other students and prepare for their first semester at Graviton
University and Undergraduate College and best of all...it was a great time
to PAR-TAY!!!! 
 
-- 
 
Craig Vincent a.k.a. Greg Thompson <AkoMagami@usa.pipeline.com> 
 
Member, Red-Head Anime Girls Fan Club 
Co-Founder and High Priest of The Holy Order of A-ko 
            -----Folder of the Holy Fuku----- 
Co-author of Project A-ko:  The College Years