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Chapter 34: New normal
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More Than Roommates Chapter 38: Masculinity
Alex~It’s the presentation day already and I am feeling super jittery.The room is already buzzing when I walk in. People are half-settled in their seats, chatting over the tops of laptops, chewing gum, shuffling slides. The projector hums quietly overhead, casting a faint glow over the front row. Jordan’s already there, naturally. He gives me a small nod, like we’re teammates passing the ball off mid-game, but he doesn’t say anything. He doesn’t need to he already did the work. The editing, the stitching, the last-minute subtitle alignment. I’m just the one opening my mouth in front of thirty people.My mouth feels like it doesn’t belong to me and so does my arms. I clutch my bag too tightly and try not to look like I’m gripping it for stability. I finally sit down, watching the professor go through attendance with his usual half-hearted rhythm. His glasses keep slipping down his nose that he doesn’t bother fixing them anymore. I look down at my shaky hands, maybe I should’ve aske
More Than Roommates Chapter 37: On top of the world
Alex~To ‘cheer me up’ Seth invites me out, he doesn’t say where we’re going just glances at me from where he’s tying his boots, eyes flicking up beneath the curve of his lashes like he’s gauging if I’ll come willingly. Knowing he isn’t going to answer, I don’t ask, I just pull on my hoodie, even though the evening’s already warm, and follow him out.We don’t talk much as we cut across campus.As we walk, I feel like the weight between us has shifted again, it’s not exactly heavy. Just… full. I stay close to him as we walk, his hands brushes mine once, accidentally, but neither of us pulls away.By the time we cut through the side alley behind Leo’s building, I know where we’re headed.“Sneaky,” I murmur as he pulls out the key Leo left him ages ago. “Didn’t peg you for sentimental.”For some reason, despite knowing the past between him and Leo, I don’t even feel jealous.“Don’t give me too much credit,” he says, pushing the door open. “I just like the view.”We get in and climb up
More Than Roommates Chapter 36: Closure
Alex~I don’t expect the knock.It comes in the middle of a quiet Sunday afternoon where the clouds overhead are stilled and there’s barely a breeze outside, the clouds are the kind of gray that turns the dorm hallway into something hushed and suspended. Seth’s out running errands. I’m halfway through microwaving leftover rice, trying to force myself to eat something that isn’t dry cereal or cold Pop-Tarts.Then i hear it at the door two soft knocks, hesitant and careful.I pause with my hand on the microwave. I listen for a second, I just stand there, not moving, then I wipe my hands on a kitchen towel and head to the door, already assuming it’s someone from our floor who forgot their key card or another RA with a clipboard.Only when i open the door, it’s not either of these people, it’s Tracey.She’s wearing a green knit sweater I recognize, it’s one of the ones she used to wear on movie nights, the kind I once tugged off her shoulders with my teeth. Her hair’s down, her eyeliner
More Than Roommates Chapter 35: Closer
Alex~I wake up with the taste of his name still soft in my mouth and Seth’s arm slung low across his side of the bed he’s not touching me, but it’s close. I don’t know how the night ended exactly. At some point, his laugh had dissolved into sleep and I’d stayed awake, counting the rise and fall of his chest like it might explain something about my own.Outside, the morning filters in like it’s not sure it’s welcome. I blink into the low gray light and try to make peace with the ache in my chest not sadness just the weight of the incoming.Seth stirs, and I watch him blink himself awake slowly. His hair’s a mess and he stretches out on the bed, yawning like he owns the world then looks over at me and smiles.“Still here?” he asks, voice all scratchy and warm.I nod. “You snored.”He grins wider. “No, I did not.”“You did. Once just once and then you talked in your sleep.”“Oh no,” he groans, rubbing his face. “What did I say?”I hesitate, lips pulling into something between fond and
More Than Roommates Chapter 34: New normal
Alex ~By the time I wake up, the other side of the bed is already empty.There’s a dent where Seth had been a faint trace of his shampoo on the pillow.a lingering warmth tucked into the sheets where he had lain and probably got up from not too long ago.For half a second, I think I dreamt it all but then I hear the low rumble of his voice in the kitchen, and I know it happened.I stretch, yawn, and take my time rising, because for some reason I feel like maybe if I move too fast, the spell might break. My feet hit the cold floor and I stand there for a moment, letting the air settle around my bare skin before tugging on one of Seth’s hoodies from the back of my chair.I quickly realize that he’s not alone.I hear Jordan’s voice and the sound of cereal clinking into a bowl. There’s something so casual about the sound that I almost laugh. Seth always did make everything look easy.I step into the kitchen just as Jordan says something I don’t catch, but Seth replies with, “Yeah, but he
More Than Roommates Chapter 33: Silence
Alex ~I don’t even think it through before saying it.We’re brushing our teeth, one beside the other like we haven’t been through hell and high water, like we didn’t just relearn how to stand beside each other without flinching. Seth is humming some obnoxious commercial jingle, shirtless and leaning lazily against the sink, while I’m pretending that I don’t notice every twitch of muscle in his shoulders.He spits, rinses and grins at me with foam still in the corner of his mouth. “What?” he asks like I’ve already said something.And that’s when it slips out, real easy and dumb. “You can sleep in my bed tonight, if you want.”He blinks and suddenly the room suddenly feels smaller.I feel my own words clawing back up my throat like they’re trying to un-say themselves, but it’s too late. His expression doesn’t shift into something smug or loaded the way I thought it might. Instead, he tilts his head a little, studying me, with his face softening m.“You sure?”I shrug, trying not to loo
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