Chapter Text
GEORGE RUSSELL ADDED 10 PEOPLE TO DORM FLOOR 7 GROUP CHAT
LANDO:
this is boring george.. why do we need this
GEORGE RUSSELL:
Because this is a new year, and last year was a mess on our floor.
Plus, we have two new people on our floor.
LANDO:
how did you even get their numbers
GEORGE RUSSELL:
Because I am the RA, and I have these things available to me.
CHARLES:
george i dont think this is necessary
GEORGE RUSSELL:
it very much is because last year our floor had alot of complaints from the higher and lower floors.
and because since there is new people on our floor i felt i should make a group chat for our floor.
CHARLES:
Once again this hasn't helped, but also were getting new people on the floor
GEORGE RUSSELL:
Yes, Charles, the room across from you will be filled up today
CHARLES:
and they are, you've failed to mention that part on who they are
GEORGE RUSSELL:
They are international, Logan and Oscar, both first years..
OSCAR:
uh.. so what's this for then..?
ALEX:
I'm Alex, by the way. You must be Oscar or Logan?
OSCAR:
I'm Oscar. It's nice to meet you. Logan hasn't arrived yet
and the others are..
CHARLES:
im charles
Max and I live across the hall from you.
MAX:
max
PIERRE:
pierre its nice to meet you
ESTEBAN:
im Esteban
CARLOS:
Carlos Sainz me and lando are roommates
landos, the one who chatted first
OSCAR:
thank you
LANDO: soo.. ocar, whrre are you from
OSCAR:
*oscar
and I'm from Melbourne, but I've lived in the UK for a while
CHARLES:
Ooh.. someone not from Europe cool
were all European
OSCAR:
Ah, cool anyway.
I gotta finish unpacking.
OSCAR WENT OFFLINE
LANDO:
I'm lowkey bored, anyone wanna hangout
GEORGE:
We have term break homework for business class, remember
Were we going to do it together in the library?
LANDO:
oh yea, we were to, ill meet you downtherer in 15
alex you coming to?
GEORGE:
Whoever's ranger is in the general carpark, it needs to be moved.
It's not allowed to be parked there and must be parked in the dorm parking
Please move it soon
ALEX:
george its probably Oscars, let him be for like 20 minutes whilst he gets set up.
I'll knock on their dorm door and let him know
OSCAR
Oscar tries to set up his dorm as nicely as possible, like his mother, Nicole, told him to so that he didn't get in trouble for a messy room, not like he got in trouble for that at boarding school or when he lived at home becuase he was just a clean person, it was hard to fill up his room becuase at boarding school it was well.. everything was givien to you by the school and now well nothng was given to him here but the bed and the wodden furniure like the desk and the wardrobe. This meant a trip to IKEA after he put all his clothing away, and well, he had to buy a whole bunch of things; luckily, his parents had brought him a car before he went into uni because of his high grades in his A levels, his dad brought him a Ford Ranger Raptor, oscar belives its a bit excessive but who cares he got a free car.
Alex knocked on the dorm complex's door soon after Oscar went offline in the group chat. Oscar was a little surprised about it. "Hey Oscar, do you own the ranger in the general car park?" he asked, then, seeing Oscar's puzzled face was funny to him "Uh.. yeah.. but you are? sorry i dont know your name yet." Oscar said politely, only having been here less than 2 hours and already knowing the whole floor's names, but doesn't know them to faces just yet. "oh im alex, and just letting you know there's the dorm building parking, which you can park in, just use your student ID," he said, smiling politely. "I can introduce you to a few of the people on our floor if they walk this way," Alex said it loud enough so that the people who were apparently walking in the hallway came this way. Oscar slowly stepped out of the doorway to meet the people on his floor; he also hadn't yet made his way around the place, only going to his room and waiting for his friend Logan to come back from visiting his family in America, where he was from.
"Oh, you must be Oscar, right?" the guy said. He looked like a model, to be honest, like some old-money husband, but who cares, and the other guy next to him looked like he had never seen an emotion. Well, Oscar couldn't really talk because he was probably the same, "uh yeah, I am.. and you both are..?" Oscar said once again in his polite voice "ah im Charles and this is Max, were roommates we live across the hall so there" chalres said pointing that the door behind them. "anyways we must be going, well see you later Oscar" charles said seeming to stear the convosation away and let them leave, but they both looked like genuinly good people, "uh now i have to move my car i think.." Oscar said walking inside and grabbing his keys and id card, "uhm.. ill see you later i guess uh.. alex?" Oscar said before waving goodbye. "Yep. " ill see you later, if you need anything ill be in the library," Alex said walking in the other direction.
i eventually left my dorm with my keys and walked down into the general car park, a 10-minute walk away. It was relaxing becuase Oscar was able to text Logan about my dilemma with the room situation. Logan hadn't responded before he had gotten in the car, so Oscar didn't respond until he had gotten to IKEA, which was 45 minutes away and outside of the city, but the ranger was able to make it in 40, but well, that's because Oscar got lucky and well got all the green lights
When Oscar got out of his car, Logan had texted back, responding to Oscars orginal dilemma
LOGAN
Yeah, man, I got nothin'. I'm going shopping when I get there, so if you wanna get the appliances and stuff, that would be great.
I'll pay you back, obviously, when I see you, just like write down everything
And man, what is with this GC we're both in?
Oh, their people who live on our floor, it's weird, I know, but don't mind it
And thanks for the heads up on what you'll bring,
btw ill send you a picture of the room you have, where in this like complex thingy
oh ill send a list of the things that I think we should have appliance-wise
Is that ok?
yea im doing that tomorrow or Thursday
So yeah send it through, I'll get what I can
Thanks, Mister Richy Rich
Honestly, it was nice going shopping on his own terms, he got to get what I wanted, and honestly, with his parents giving him money due to this was quite nice of them because well, even tho oscar had worked whilst inhigh school, he didn't earn that much money because of taxes and well, just because they didn't pay hima lot. When I got to IKEA, it was, as he expected, Now Oscar always comes into these types of places prepared for a lot, and well, always has a list of things to get when Oscar goes into big stores, so that he doesn't get carried away. This time, Oscar even had a paper list because he wasn't trusting anything.
OSCARS' LIST OF THINGS TO GET FOR DORM:
IKEA
- trolley
- bed sheets
- desk organiser
-bin
-cable management
-laundry basket
ELSEWHERE
- google chromecast for tv
- appliances
- noticeboard
- lamp
- bathroom appliances
- decor
- kitchen utensils
Oscar was quiet over prepared, but that didn't matter, did it? All that mattered was that he got out of Ikea alive without going down a rabbit hole of money and, well, also not getting lost in Ikea. He also needed to get things for his room itself, but that could wait because he'd have to set most of this up at some point. Going through ikea is frustrating for Oscar becuase you can't go wherever you want it kinda has to go in an order, and he wasnt a fan of it becuase he knew exactly what he wanted from ikea, meaning that he ended up just spending even more than he needed to spend, but he still got everything he needed to get but it still took him about 3 hours becuase going through the 24 areas of Ikea and its different rooms and furniture.. Oscar made it out in one piece.
After spending about 500 pounds at Ikea on random dorm shit, he loaded it in his car and went back to the building. His phone had been on DND because he was in some form of flow state when I came to this, so his DND got turned on at some point and never got turned off. When he had finally loaded everything up into his dorm, he started to put it into place, and he also didn't have very many decorations to put up, like photos, which is pretty on point for Oscar. But also, there was another list of things he needed.
technology..
Oscar would just get a new phone when Logan got one but Logan got the iPhone 14 ProMax when it came last year, and well, he didn't need a new phone, his iPhone 12 was just fine, but now.. it wasn't. and so was his laptop, but becuase he was now going into uni? he decided to jsut get the whole lot new, MacBook, iPhone, and iPad, just because he could, and his sister would set it up when they met up in 2 days from now. but this meant that well he had to go back out, but who cared, apart from his wallet.
going to the apple store is always a weird experience for anyone esspecially oscar, This was only becuase Oscar never really went to the apple store and well always got them from the retail stores, but it was a tad bit late now and the retail ones were almost closeing and the closest store that held apple products.. the Apple store so to just bite the bullet he went there and spent the 5000£ to get all the new stuff.. Oscar found it was embrassesing walking out of the Apple store with two bags at 5:00pm at night, whilst trying to get back to his car before someone robbed me of his stuff. but he got back all safe and sound..
Soon, another person knocked on the dorm door. It genuinely surprised him how few people lived on this floor. It was weird, "uh hi?" "So our newest floor mate is just as good looking as I believed" he said, he had curlyish hair in like a makeshift mullet haircut and was just shorter than oscar he was good looking, because apparently everyone on this floor had to be good looking to get on it, "uh... sorry mate but you are..?" oscar said once angian in his poliete tone trying to get along with everyone.
"Well, I'm Lando"