Wow, it's been a long time. I missed you guys so much.

Welcome to College Works Out, the sequel to Work Things Out! I carefully started writing this story somewhere around summer, but with all the school work and driving lessons (I passed!) I didn't have loads of time to write non stop. But, thankfully, I have finished a few chapters and decided to start posting them.

Because of my busy schedule, I will be uploading weekly. Every sunday at 10 pm Central time (that's 4pm for East Coast and 1pm for West Coast I think), a new chapter will be up! Please follow the story so an email will tell you when I posted it. And favourite if you like it !

Anyway, a lot of exciting things will happen and I'm dying to keep writing, but I wanna let y'all read now. Please stick around after you're done for some exciting things!

Lots of kisses to my lovely twitter sweetheart Libby, sweet reader Sarah and cool chick Hannah for letting me use your names as important characters in this story. If you reviewed your name when I asked for it, keep reading! There's a chance I picked your name for a background character in this story or an upcoming!

The day had finally arrived. He had packed his stuff, everything he needed to survive a year in the small room that would be assigned to him. He had heard stories about how small it could be. It all depended on which building he would end up in. He would most likely stay in a double room in a hall with a shared bathroom. The real college experience.

''You're awfully silent, are you nervous?'' Ally pokes his belly teasingly as they set their first steps on campus.

''Are you kidding me? This is the best day ever,'' he grabs his girlfriend's hand as he speeds up his pace, not wanting to waste another moment before he could really get started. ''I can't believe we're going to one of the best universities in America.''

''You're gonna absolutely love it here, I'm sure,'' trying to calm his nerves, which she knows that are hidden under his bubbly form.

''Especially now we're roommates,'' he delivers the new information with an excited squeeze of his hand.

''We're not roommates, Austin. They don't even let boys and girls share a room,'' Ally giggles while shaking her head in denial as she misses the glimmer in Austin's eyes.

''I'm pretty sure they do,'' the way he speaks his assumption arouses suspicion, making Ally stop her pace abruptly. Austin is held back by their connected hands in which he looks over his shoulder surprised, meeting her eyes filled with distrust.

''What did you do?''

''What makes you think I did something?" giving her a fake, high-pitched laugh, he looks at her offended. Her eyes don't get any less judging by this denial. After another failed attempt to pull her with, he rolls his eyes. ''I might've told them I'm your gay best friend.''

''Austin!''

''Or,'' he holds up one finger to cut her off. ''I hacked into the programme with my amazing skills to change the rooms. You can choose which one you like best.''

''I don't think I like either of those,'' she exclaims hesitantly.

''C'mon, it'll be fun! We can help each other study, have movie nights,'' he tries to convince her as he keeps adding the advantages on his fingers. A small smile appears on Ally's lips, telling him it's working. With slow steps, he inches closer to her until their connected hands hang loosely between their bodies. ''Don't tell me you didn't hope some miracle would put us together.''

''Fine,'' she admits with a blush. It really was a miracle, a miracle he helped a bit, but still, he couldn't believe it actually worked. ''But I'm sure they'll find out and rearrange the rooms.''

''But until then, let's have some fun,'' after throwing her a wink, he drags her with, on their way inside.

''So you have morning classes every day?'' Austin looks at Ally's schedule in disbelief before staring at her in awe. ''Do you want to die?''

''Austin, morning classes are the best option,'' snatching the paper from his hands, she stands up to hang the schedule on their notice board. ''The professors are still in a good mood, because we're his first class. The classes are usually small, so you don't have a lot of distraction. And when you're done, you still have the whole day instead of wasting it in bed.''

''Do you hate sleep or something,'' he mumbles, more to himself, but loud enough for her to notice.

''Who says we're sleeping at night?'' she sees Austin's eyes widen in surprise as soon as she makes her way towards him while asking him the unanswerable question. Swallowing nervously, he watches her inch closer slowly until she stops right in front of him, her head tilting to one side as she looks him in the eyes naughtily. With one light push to his chest, he lands on his back on one of the two beds. Giggling, she crawls on the matrass next to him to plant a kiss on his lips. ''You're so jumpy, I love it.''

''We can't move the beds, can we?'' he groans while following her lips after she backed away.

''Nope, they're attached to the floor. And they're barely big enough for one person,'' as they both lean against the wall while sitting on the bed, they smile to themselves. In a surprise attack, Ally pushes his shoulder, causing him to fall over. ''This is exactly why they would never let us share a room.''

''Hey, you started it,'' he defends himself as he pulls Ally with him, before wrapping his arms around her to keep her from getting up. She manages to free herself quickly by pricking her fingers in his sides, an extremely ticklish spot she had just recently discovered and already had come in her advantage many times. Sitting straight up again, she moves off his bed to grab her suitcase. ''How are the restaurants here, by the way?''

''There are a few good ones, we usually lunch at the Blue Room. Pretty cheap and edible enough. On weekends, we like looking for new restaurants nearby,'' while carefully folding her shirts, slowly filling her drawer, she keeps informing him about everything he needs to know involving food on campus. ''Oh, and don't ever go to Faculty Club and order the tuna sandwich. Even if you're dying and it's all they have, choose to die instead. Don't ask.''

''I'll take your word on that,'' he chuckles while getting up from the bed. After opening their door to look outside, he looks at her questioning. ''With how many rooms do we share a bathroom again?''

''Usually about three, we should find out who stay in the other rooms,'' Ally nods as she follows him outside. They only set one foot outside before Ally bumps into a familiar face. ''Hannah!''

''Ally, oh my gosh!'' the girls squeal while hugging each other tightly. The other girl seemed the exact opposite of Ally. Her completely straight, long blonde hair hung over her back and she seemed almost a head bigger than Ally. ''When did you get here?"

''We arrived about ten minutes ago. I was just explaining the story of the daunting tuna sandwich,'' Ally laughs, the girl following right after as they share the, to Austin, unknown memory.

''Hey, a new face,'' Hannah turns to Austin, shaking his hand politely. ''You must be Austin, I've heard some stuff about you.''

''And you must be one of Ally's college friends, nice to meet you.''

''Hannah, ex-roommate,'' she shoots Ally a jokingly death stare. ''until I got replaced.''

''Sorry, Han. This was totally unplanned and most likely illegal. We're gonna see how long it takes them to notice,'' looking up, she exchanges a look with Austin as he understands he's the replacement. ''Who are your roommates this year?''

Luckily, Libby and I got placed together in a double,'' Hannah points over her shoulder to the closed door, leading to her room. ''Last year, in a huge room was fun, but so crowded. I'm glad we have a small one this year.''

''Looks like we're sharing bathrooms this year, too.''

''Who's the big guy?'' a girl walks out of Hannah's room, keeping her eyes on Austin, inspecting him with no shame. She whips her ginger hair out of her face as she stops her pace next to Hannah.

''It's Austin,'' she doesn't shake his reached out hand, which he lowers awkwardly as she still shamelessly studies every inch of the boy. He looks at Ally confused, but she just smiles knowingly. He eventually decides to guess her name, figuring she's not planning on introducing herself. ''It's Libby, right?''

''Lib, just Lib'' she quickly states, throwing a foul look in the girl's direction. ''You're pretty cute.''

''Thanks,'' he stutters in surprise, once again looking at his girlfriend, but she doesn't seem to mind someone else finding him cute. Instead, she walks over to Lib to lean her elbow on her shoulder.

''Libby isn't fond of our nickname for her,'' Ally grins teasingly as Lib rolls her eyes.

''I think we all have names we don't like, Allison,'' she answers, in which Ally backs away from her with her hands in the air as soon as she hears the name she's rather not called.

''So, who's in the other room?'' Austin asks the girls, in which Lib laughs confidently.

''Please, let me do the honors,'' stepping away from the group, she goes to stand close enough to the third door and folds her hands around her mouth, making a small megaphone to amplify her already loud voice. ''Yo, what's that topless chick doing in our hall?''

Not a second later, the last door indeed opens to reveal a boy with a gelled quiff, a wide eyes, looking around the hall before seeing Lib's amused look, finding out he has been pranked.

''Very funny, Lib,'' he speaks sarcastically in which Lib makes a small bow.

''I can't believe you still fall for that, I've used it, like, three times now.''

''One day, there will be a topless chick in our hall and I'm not gonna risk missing that,'' he tells her in full confidence, in which she rolls her eyes again. His eyes finally meet Austin as he walks towards him. ''New flesh in our hall, I see.''

''Yeah, I'm-'' he doesn't get a chance to finish his sentence as the boy interrupts him.

''Wait, Austin?'' he guesses the name he could've impossibly known. ''It's Ian, from Wakefield elementary school. Remember?''

''Dude, I didn't even recognize you without your glasses and curls!'' finally seeing the slight resemblance with his childhood friend, he gives him a friendly hug.

''Look who's talking, Mr. bowl cut,'' Ian laughs, taking Austin back to fifth grade, when that haircut seemed a good idea. He didn't even know what had gotten into him.

''We do not speak of that time,'' Austin cringes visibly, making the rest chuckle, imagining the look on him.

''What's all the racket out here?'' another voice comes out of the room making the rest walk into it. Another boy is sitting on one of the beds, smiling as he sees everyone enter. He scans his group of friends curiously before his eyes land on the unfamiliar face. Getting up from the bed, he invites the others in while shaking Austin's hand. ''Hey, man. I'm Dan.''

The first thing that Austin noticed was his thick, British accent. His brown hair was combed in a fringe, warm brown eyes looked at him as he shot him a polite smile. Austin introduces himself before Hannah walks over to the boy to wrap one arm around his waist in a side hug.

''It's Dan as in 'Dang he cute','' Dan grins at her before pulling her closer by wrapping an arm around her shoulder. Together, they take place on one bed next to Ian as the rest goes to sit on the one across from it, leaning their backs against the wall.

''You two finally decided to listen to us?'' Ally beams at the couple while pointing at herself and Lib, next to her.

''Yup, he asked me out over the summer,'' Hannah blushes happily, intertwining her fingers with Dan's hand, hanging over her shoulder.

''I don't know how you bare having the same girl for a longer time. Don't you get tired of the same-,'' Ian starts before a pillow hits his face, shutting him up instantly. Dan smirks at him as he understands he needs to shut up. ''Fine, but I still don't understand why relationships exist. Especially in universities.''

''Maybe you just haven't found the right one, male prostitute,'' Ally shoots him the playful nickname before leaning against Austin's torso.

''You haven't even shared the whole story, spill it!'' the blonde girl looks at the couple curiously while sitting up straighter and they feel all eyes looking their way now.

''It's actually a pretty long story,'' Austin admits, but quickly sees no one is settling for that answer. ''I was her personal trainer at the gym for a few weeks before I realized I started to like her a lot.''

''He waited for me in front of the school to finally give me his phone number and take me out,'' she bites her lip while nuzzling against her boyfriend as he follows the other couple by throwing a lazy arm around her shoulder.

''Gosh, dudes are so cute. Chicks aren't nearly as romantic,'' Lib sighs while looking at the two next to her. Austin stays silent as he overthinks what she might mean with it. Ally notices his confusion as she starts explaining for Lib.

''Lib is into girls,'' she tells him shortly in which Lib shoots him a wide grin while pointing at herself with two fingers.

''You told me I was cute earlier,'' he furrows his eyebrows in everlasting confusion. Lib rolls her eyes, apparently a habit she had.

''I'm gay, not blind.''

''Fair point,'' he chuckles as he shrugs lightly, giving in. Ian examines the tight embrace Ally and her boyfriend are and throws them a puzzled look.

''Wait, are you two sharing a room?'' they look at each other shyly, ducking the suggestive raise of his eyebrow as they give him a content nod. ''Make sure you keep it down on weekdays, some people need to work hard to stay here.''

''Just because I got here with a scholarship, doesn't mean I don't do anything, ass,'' throwing a shoe she happens to find next to her in his direction which only misses his head with an inch, she laughs out loudly. Not denying, but rather ignoring his obvious statement. ''Besides, I bet you already made plans to switch rooms every now and then so you can have your weekly hook up in an empty room.''

''Touché, Allison,'' he winks at her knowingly, making her stick her tongue out jokingly.

''So, what are you studying, Austin?'' Dan changes the subject to get to know the new guy a bit more after the laughing died down.

''Journalism,'' he responds with a wide grin, happy his dream was actually coming true and he could say it out loud.

''Awesome, me and Lib too!'' Ian exclaims, genuinely happy as he exchanges an excited look with the girl.

''Nice! I studied computer engineering at RWC last year, but quickly found out I wouldn't want to get my diploma in it,'' he tells them shortly. Feeling Ally's small hand grab his, he intertwines their fingers before continuing his story. ''So I applied to a few universities and luckily, Brown thought I had enough potential to skip freshman year, if I did a course over the summer so I could be in the same year as Ally. Which I did.''

''I know what you mean, mate. Sometimes a college just doesn't feel right,'' Dan sighs, the words coloured by his British dialect.

''Hey, that's a cool accent, by the way. Where are you from?'' Austin nods at the brown haired guy curiously, making him smirk, surprised by the sudden interest.

''Yorkshire. I wanted to get out of there to meet new people, so that's how I ended up here,'' the Brit explains. ''I'm lucky I got to meet a lot of cool people.''

''We better get going, there's a lot left to unpack,'' Ally offers after catching up a bit more while getting up from the bed. ''How about we hang out in our room tonight?''

''Won't we interrupt your cozy evening plans?'' they hear Ian joke just before they walk out the door, making them freeze instantly. As Austin blushes furiously, not being able to feel comfortable enough with his new friends to joke about it, Ally slowly turns around with a naughty smirk.

''That's okay, we have a full year ahead of us,'' with not a single stutter, she looks around the room before giving Austin a wicked raise of one eyebrow while biting her lip. Still stunned, he's pulled out the room by one hand as he looks back at the rest helplessly, the rest bursting out in laughter before sending them howls and wolf whistles.

''You know, I expected Brown students to be a lot different,'' Austin watches Ally as she stuffs the final clothes in her drawer. His clothes only took up half of the space and he was already long done, now lazily laying down on his bed while staring at the ceiling.

''The students here are super diverse, there isn't a typical Brown student,'' she explains his observation as she does her best to fold a red top without any wrinkles. ''That makes it so easy to find people you get along with.''

''It's a fun group.''

''They all liked you a lot, I could tell,'' closing the drawer, she turns around to join him on the bed. Automatically, he raises an arm for her to crawl under, like they had lived here, in this small room, for years.

''So, you all hang out after your classes?''

''Yeah, sometimes we eat out or go clubbing on the weekends. People throw parties pretty often, which you can just crash uninvited,'' she sums up their casual hang outs as she rests her head on his chest before lifting it to look him in the eyes carefully. ''By the way, the one's that offer their place need to take care of the drinks. It's a rule.''

''Great, so we have to go to the store,'' Austin groans weary, frankly not having planned to leave the dorm today.

''Actually,'' Ally gives him an apologetic smile. ''you have to go to the store. I promised Hannah I'd help her shop for a present for Dan's birthday.''

''Alls,'' he whines, stretching out the nickname he gave her a while ago while leaning his head against the wall defeated.

''You can buy whatever you want, I'll pay half of it back!'' she awaits his response for a second, but he keeps dramatically groaning while keeping his eyes closed. Figuring she won't get a better reaction, she takes it. After pressing her lips against his cheek, she escapes from his grip to grab her coat and heads out the door. ''Great! Sorry, thank you, love you!''

Not a second later, the door shuts behind her as Austin can only keep staring at it. Either his ears played tricks on him or Ally did not realize what she just told him before hastily exiting the room. He decides to go with the latter.

How was that? Nervous as heck tbh, I really am. Please let me know if you liked it! You probably noticed I'm moving to more mature subjects in this sequel. College life man, I'm getting older and so are they. You better like it, cause it won't stop.

QUICK REALLY COOL THING PLS READ THIS! A lovely girl from Luxembourg messaged me about a contest she's hosting, or better said TWO contests. She's picking best Rauslly story and best Rauslly author this New Year. Cool huh? It would mean A LOT if you guys could vote for me! Or someone else, just get this contest out there! And vote as often as you can! Please read the rules she has for the stories. THE LINK TO HER PROFILE AND THE TWO CONTESTS ARE ON MY PROFILE! Also, her fanfic name is Rausllyxcontests if you wanna look her up yourself.

STORY TIME! When I created this sequel in my head, I thought to myself: What do I find the hardest thing to write in fanfics? Cause you know, I'm always looking for new challenges. The answer that came out was: different characters. Cause what's harder than creating different people, giving them an unique appearance, an interesting personality and make people get attached to them? Exactly, not much. That's why I created this new group of friends which I'll be giving their own adventures. Don't worry Auslly shippers, this story will stay revolving around Austin and Ally. In each scene, at least one of the two will be present.

I hope I gave a decent description for every character so you guys have an image in your head. That's the most important thing to me. Also, Dan. I'm not saying it's Dan Howell AKA Danisnotonfire, the amazingly hot British youtuber, but I'm not saying it's NOT. Let's say he inspired the character. A lot. And don't worry, Sarah will be returning. If you don't know who Sarah is, I will explain when she returns, but you could read Work Things Out again to freshen up your memory.

ANOTHER COOL THING! So many cool things wow. So, another thing why I write is to put a little bit of me in my stories. One way I do that, is by putting little characteristics of me in the story. It may have not been noticeable, but I decided to bring a little twist. In each chapter, I will be putting little stuff about me in one of the characters. It probably will be quirks.

Fun thing is: You can guess what it is and tell me in the reviews? Is that cool or really far fetched. Anyway, I'll see what responses I get and if I don't get any (probably), I'll just tell you after each chapter. I don't think I put anything in this chapter, but next for sure!

Probs to you if you're still reading, I wouldn't if I didn't write this myself tbh. I love you all!