When we reached the end of the hall, he knocked on one of the doors. I still kept a good distance from the alpha as he stood in front of the door. I didn’t hear anyone verbally answer him, but I could hear someone on the other end of the door.

The door finally opened, revealing a tall, lanky beta. “Hey, Maelstrom, is something wrong? Wait! What happened to your nose?”

Maelstrom, that was his name. It never occurred to me that I didn’t know his name, and it was strange that I was hearing it for the first time from another person’s mouth. Maelstrom answered the room advisor, “Don’t worry about my nose. I want to speak to room services about a situation.”

“They’re not available at the moment, so you can bring your issue to me for now.”

“Oh. Well, I think we need a room change. I’m not sure rooming with an omega is really the best thing.” Maelstrom spoke as he pointed at me.

“I see. There is nothing that can be done about it right now, but weren’t you one of the students that submitted a request slip for a specific roommate?”

“I was, but I didn’t realize that he would be an omega.”

The room advisor left his door and walked towards me. Instinctually, I wanted to move away from him, but I held my ground. “Hello there. I’m Richard. What’s your name.”

I didn’t want to speak. Although I didn’t find Richard intimidating, I was still affected by my fear of Maelstrom. Unable to answer Richard, I slowly shook my head and started backing away. I was too insecure for this, and I needed more time to recover before I would be ready to socialize with anyone.

“I believe his name is Flynn.” Maelstrom spoke for me.

How did he know my name, but I didn't know his? His mother must have told him my name. I should have asked my own mother what his name was instead of learning it by chance.

“He also submitted a request slip for a specific roommate. Since you both submitted requests for each other, I doubt that room services will do anything for the two of you. Not to mention, even if they decide to move one of you, it could take a few weeks before they could find somewhere to place one of you.

For now, I suggest you two unpack and work out your differences. I’m sorry that I can’t do anything, but you should have gotten to know more about each other before requesting each other as roommates. If the two of you didn’t know each other, why did both of you submit roommate request slips?”

I hadn’t submitted any requests. My mother must have done it for me so that I wouldn’t forget about it or change my mind about having a roommate.

Maelstrom answered him, “My mother said that I should because she knows Flynn’s mother and told me that he would make a perfect roommate.”

“Hey! Look there’s that alpha that was bullying the omega in the parking lot!” Someone in the hall shouted.

Murmurs began to fill the hall.

“Shame on him.”

“That must be why the R.A. is talking to them.”

“He should be punished.”

“Someone ought to go teach him a lesson.”

I began to feel guilty again. Maelstrom hadn’t done anything to intentionally harm me; all he was trying to do was aid me. He didn’t deserve to be attacked by those alphas in the parking lot, and he didn’t deserve to be criticised by strangers that didn’t know the situation.

The attention was also making me more nervous. I just wanted to be invisible, but there were all these eyes on us. I could feel my body trembling from their stares.

Richard softly spoke to me as someone would a child, “you’re okay. Why don’t you step into my room for a while and calm down?” He then turned to Maelstrom, “you should go back to your room. I’m afraid if you stay out here, a fight might break out.”

Without any protests, Maelstrom nodded his head and walked back towards our room. I began to make small steps towards the room advisor’s room with slow and shaky steps.

I hadn’t gotten far from my starting position when an alpha moved towards me and grabbed an arm in an attempt to steady me. He was trying to be helpful, but he scared me instead. My fight or flight instincts kicked in, causing me to wet myself and jerk away from him. It was embarrassing!

He let go of my arm, and I forced myself against the wall. I wasn’t able to do anything but stand there and tremble. I wanted to clean up my mess and leave the eye sight of everyone in the hall. They were all going to know me as a skittish omega. It was true, but I didn’t want to be looked down on or treated like I was helpless.

“Everyone go back to your businesses. There is nothing to see here.” Richard announced to the hall.

He cautiously moved towards me. It was obvious he didn’t know exactly what to do with me. Then, to my surprise, he picked me up. It wasn’t that betas couldn’t be strong, but it wasn’t common since they would never get strong enough to contend with even the weakest of alphas. He carried me into his room and sat me down on the computer chair.

Once I was seated, I began to uncontrollably sob and whimper like an abandoned puppy. It was the first day of my new life, and I already made a mess of everything. Richard left his room and stood just outside of the door. I don’t know if he was trying to save me from feeling more embarrassed by leaving to make a call, but I could still hear him while he made a call.

“I need a custodian on floor 3 left wing please.”

There was a pause before he spoke again, “There was an incident with an omega.”

Another pause passed.

“Could you also send a relaxant up here for him to take?”

“Thank you. I’ll stand out in the hall to make sure nobody tracks through it.”

“Okay. Bye.” He finished.

Richard’s room was quiet and the only noises that could be heard were the noises from the hall and my own sniffling. I could occasionally hear Richard redirect people around my urine. It was completely embarrassing, and I desperately wanted to shower and change my clothes.

Eventually, Richard came back into his room. I assumed that a janitor had arrived to clean my mess, so there was no longer a need for him to be in the hall.

By this point, I had calmed down a little and was no longer crying, but I was still upset. Richard looked me over obviously accessing me and what his next move should be. He was being cautious with me because he didn’t want to upset me further or cause me to stress more.

“Do you want to borrow my shower? I could go to your room and grab a change of clothes for you.” Richard offered.

His offer sounded nice, but the idea of using a foreign shower made me nervous. However, my desire to clean myself overruled my initial nerves. “I would like that.” I said in a shaky voice.

“Good. Your room is thirteen, right?”

I nodded my head. “I’m not unpacked yet. I don’t remember which bag has my clothes, but don’t open the blue bag please.”

“Okay. Someone may drop by my room while I’m gone. Don’t panic. They have a pill you can take to calm you down and make this transition easier on you. They won’t bother you in the shower, but they may wait in my room while I’m gone. You can lock the bathroom door, so they won’t be able to get to you. I just don’t want you to get too worried about them being in here. ”

Richard seemed to genuinely care for me. I’m sure he was only being this nice and tolerant because I was an omega, and it was his job to help all students transition into college life. He smiled at me before walking out of his room. I was still nervous about using his shower and felt weird about it. Nothing in his bathroom belonged to me, and I was unsure if it was okay to use any of his stuff, but I was also sure he would have said something if there was something he didn’t want me to use. 

I stood up and slowly made my way to the bathroom. The room door was still open and anyone would be able to walk in and the bathroom was close to the room door. This also made me uneasy. Anyone would be able to walk into this room while I was in the shower, and there would be nothing I could do about it. I opened the bathroom door, quickly stepped in, and immediately locked the door.

I looked around the small bathroom before making my way to the shower. I slowly took my clothes off before cautiously stepping towards the shower. I turned on the hot water and allowed it to heat up.

As the water was warming up, a voice called into the room. “Richard, I got that pill. Can I come in?”

The voice belonged to a female. I don’t think she ever stepped into the room, but I wasn’t going to open the bathroom door to find out. However, shortly after her arrival, I could hear Richard greet her.

“Hey. Thanks for bringing up a pill. He’s using my shower at the moment.”

“You’re welcome. I’d love to chat with you, but I need to return to the front desk.”

That was the last of their exchange. After she was gone and I was no longer distracted, I turned the cold water on and adjusted the water temperature to something I liked.

Once the water was a comfortable temperature, I stepped in and let the water fall over my body. I quickly washed my body off since I wanted to get out as fast as I could. When I turned the water off, I realized I didn’t have a towel, nor did I know where to find one.

“Richard, where can I get a towel?” I asked, hoping he could hear my weak voice.

Thankfully, he heard me. “You can get one from the cabinet above the toilet.”

I opened the shower door and looked over to the toilet. I gently stepped out of the shower and made my way towards the toilet. It wasn’t far. In fact, only a few steps away. I grabbed a towel from the cabinet and quickly dried myself off.

Once I was dried, I wrapped the towel around my waist. I was going to have to open the bathroom door to get my clothes, and this made me anxious. I’d be exposed to Richard.

“C can you ha hand me me m my clothes?” I stuttered while I stood next to the door.

“Sure thing. Just crack the door, and I’ll turn the other way, okay?”

I unlocked the door and opened the door just wide enough to allow my clothes to come in. True to his word, his back was turned towards me with my clothes clutched in the hand he held behind his back

 I gently grabbed my clothes from him and closed the door. I put my clothes on as fast as I could and exited the bathroom with my soiled clothes.

Richard was sitting on the chair he had placed me on earlier. This grossed me out a bit. I’m sure he cleaned it before sitting down on it, but the thought that I had been on that chair with piss soaked clothes made me sick. 

“Thank you.” I sheepishly said to him.

“You’re welcome. Here take this pill and sit in my room for a little while.”