"Well, lotsa people would assume, so." She shrugs, and gives him a peck on the cheek and then takes his hand to go find an RA with schedules. 

Holding hands: weirdly nice!

Their RA, who doesn't blink, gives them their schedules and student ID cards. 

"What's your major?" Melody asks, poring over hers. 

"I don't remember."

"Howzat happen?" 

"I mean, I mentioned my parents had to pay me to go to college cause I didn't want to, right?"

"...I mean, yeah, but there's 'don't wanna go to college' and 'don't wanna study nuclear physics,' if you didn't even want to go to college I recommend you make sure they didn't sign you up for something prestigious and stupid hard." 

"If it's too hard I can just fail, it's not like I care. And they know that, so either they're planning to bribe somebody or they gave me something really easy."

"Oh, you still get the bribe if you fail?"

"If I didn't still get the bribe if I fail, I wouldn't have even bothered to take it!"

"If you don't have to try to not fail then what's the downside of college?" 

"Having to show up? Feeling vaguely annoyed about all the lies and bribery? Also apparently the risk of getting eaten by monsters but seems like I'm just rolling with that one."

"The monsters thing is not a general hazard. The lies...if you're talking about having to pretend not to be a rapist, I feel like college is not the sticking point there. And the bribery wouldn't be a thing if you didn't need to be bribed, and that's the thing I'm confused about." 

"No, like, if I don't have to try not to fail then the reason why I don't have to try not to fail is because my parents are bribing somebody to lie about whether I passed."

"...Ah. Yeah, that's--bad." 

"It's not great! So like, I might put in a little effort just so I won't have to deal with that. Depends how easy it is."

"Whether I can be aaaaany help at all depends on what it is." 

"Oh? What are you good at?"

"I'm good with my hands! I'm good at putting things together and seeing if they work and taking them apart again to fix it. I'm studying engineering, but it also applies to, like, arts and crafts stuff." 

"Huh. That's pretty cool."

"Yes it is. So what are you good at, besides kissing?"

"Dunno. Dance, I guess, but I got kicked out of ballet school as a kid so I'm not that good. Like, I got kicked out for fighting, not for sucking at ballet, but if I'd been really good my parents would've been able to convince them to keep me."

"I can dance! Some, anyway. I could teach you. Not ballet, though, I don't know any ballet."

"I haven't done ballet since I was like ten anyway. I do other stuff now. Dance is fun."

She grins and cha-chas a couple steps and then twirls and throws her arms around his neck and giggles.