Shot: Hey all, This is a modern day fic starring the Newsies. I noticed that all modern day fics have them in high school, this time they're in College. I am going to be needing girls to fill out the other two dorms and for girlfriends for some of the them. Racetrack is taken by me and Spot is taken by Sparks. I still need girlfriends for Bumlets, Mush, Blink, and Jack. Skittery and Snitch will be together so you can't have them.

Thoughts

Disclaimer: I don't own the Newsies if I did no one would see Race again.

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Bryan Monroe ran a hand through his brown hair as he stared at the door before him. He thought to himself, I wish my family was here to help me move in, I hate meeting new people by myself. Why, oh why did I have to change schools in the middle of the year? Bryan sighed, he fixed his blue hooded sweatshirt that read CAFFENINE and grabbed the dumpster that held his stuff and opened the door to his dorm. Bryan walked over to the first door and read the names on the outside, outloud, "Cowboy Kelly and Spot Conlon" He walked over to the second door and read the names, "Snitch Russo and Bryan Monroe, guess this is my room, wonder who Snitch is?" A hand clamped down on Bryan's shoulder causing him to jump and spin around. His gaze landed on a laughing brown haired boy wearing torn black jeans and a black shirt that reads "EVEN AS YOU SLEEP I PLOT YOUR DESTRUCTION", he questioned, "Who are you?"

The laughing boy extended his hand and said, "I'm Snitch"

Bryan meet his hand, "Oh my roommate, I'm Bryan Monroe."

Snitch still laughing, "I think Skittery is a better name for you the way you just jumped a mile when I touched your shoulder."

The first door from before opened and a tall boy with dirty blonde hair wearing blue jeans and a red flannel shirt with a black cowboy hat around his neck walked out, "Hey you two shut up, I'm talking with my mom on the phone."

Snitch turned to the boy, "Jack, don't you wanna meet our new roommate, Skittery.

Jack looked at the pair and ran his hand through his hair, "Yeah hold up I'll get Spot and we'll have a roomie bonding thing all right."

Skittery looked at the Jack, "Umm, ok, let me put my stuff away." Skittery walked into the other room and quickly put his clothes away in the empty closet and threw stuff on his bed. He was setting up his computer when a knock on the door disrupted his thoughts, "Come on in."

Snitch walked in and said, "Spot and Jack are sitting in the common room care to join us."

The two walked into the common room and took seats on the couch opposite of Jack and Spot. Skittery guessed that the short boy with dazzling grayish-blue eyes and blonde hair wearing a gray shirt that read, "PEOPLE TO WEAK TO FOLLOW THEIR OWN DREAMS WILL ALWAYS FIND A WAY TO DISCOURAGE OTHERS" was Spot.

"So you're the new kid," Spot said.

"Yeah, I just transferred from William Patterson," Skittery said.

"In the middle of the year, Skittery, man that's gotta suck big time," Snitch said.

"I thought your name was Bryan. Why's Snitch calling ya Skittery," Jack said?

"Beats me Jack, my name is Bryan, Bryan Monroe," Skittery said.

"Yeah but you shoulda seen how this guy jumped when I touched his shoulder," Snitch said, and touched his shoulder again, and again Skittery jumped, "See what I mean."

"Man he is Skittery," Jack said.

"Do you all have nicknames or something? I mean you keep calling him Spot and him Snitch and your door says Cowboy and now you guys insist on calling me Skittery," Skittery asked.

"Well, yeah, my real name is Jack Kelly but everyone calls me Cowboy cause I came to Jersey from Santa Fe," Jack said.

"I'm called Spot cause of my height but my real name is Matthew Conlon," Spot said.

"Snitch cause in high school, I snitched a few things and sold them on Ebay, my real name is Danny Russo," Snitch said, "So Skittery, what's your major, why'd you change schools?"

Skittery answered, "I changed schools cause mine didn't have what I needed for my major, which is Psychiatric Rehabilitation. What's your majors?"

Spot answered first, "Politics"

"Criminal Justice," Said Snitch.

"Social Work," Jack said.

"Wow, that's diverse," Skittery said.

"Hey wanna meet your neighbors across the hall. Their really great guys," Snitch said.

"Sure, why not," Skittery said.

The four got up and walked out into the hallway. Snitch walked up to the door across the hall and knocked loudly. A boy wearing nothing but jeans opened the door, "Hey Snitch, Spot, Cowboy, new person I've never seen before. Come on in."

The four went into the common room, where there were three other boys sitting. Snitch stepped forward and spoke, "Hey guys, say hello to Bryan 'Skittery' Monroe. He's a psychiatric rehabilitation major"

The four boys waved half-heartedly. The boy that answered the door stood and shook Skittery's hand, "Hey Skittery, I'm Michael 'Mush' Meyers, a physical education major."

A boy with blonde hair and a brown eyepatch wearing a plain green shirt and denim jeans spoke next, "I'm Louis 'Kid Blink' Ballaet, a special education major."

A Spanish looking boy wearing an entirely blue outfit leaned forward and said, " I'm Dominic 'Bumlets' Lucero, Bilingual education major."

Finally the last boy, a short Italian wearing a white shirt with a black horse on it and black jeans spoke, "I'm Anthony 'Racetrack' Higgins, a Finance major."

"Wow, more nicknames to remember," Skittery said, "Are there stories behind yours too?"

"Yeah, mine's Mush because my mom was black and my dad white and the two mushed together created me, everyone says my skin was the color of mush so that's what they called me," Mush said.

"I got my nick because of my eyepatch, some idiot in high school thought it would be funny to ask me to blink and after that everyone thought it was funny and called me that, so I just kept it. The kid part was because my birthday was late in the year and I was younger then all my friends," Blink said.

"I'm a dreamer and my friends would call me a bum, so one time they said hey bum, lets go, but before they said go I looked up at them, after that they just kept saying bum lets and later it became Bumlets," Bumlets said.

"During the summer I hung out at Monmouth Park racetrack all the time, I even met my girlfriend there, well because I was there so often my girl started calling me Racetrack, but everyone shortens it to Race," Race said.

"Wow, that's something," Skittery said.

"Hey Race is your girlfriend going to be sneaking in all the time again," Snitch asked.

"No, they've accepted her housing request and are letting her move in, actually she moved just down the hall, so we can finally meet the girls that live down the hall. Let's go," Race said.

The other guys shrugged and got up. They trudged down the hall and knocked on the door to room 409. A girl answered the door.

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Shot: Evil cliffy time. Sorry but I can't go into the girls dorm till I have girls to fill out the dorm, I need six girls so the first six to review and leave an e-mail address get to interact with the guys the most, everyone else will be extras in classes. And I don't forget that I need four for the guys' girlfriends. Nighty Night all.

*Sneaks off to private room with Racetrack*