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Chapter 56: Request

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Alex~

I tell myself I’m going to get up and do something useful, but ten minutes later I’m still sitting on the floor with yesterday’s hoodie half on, staring at the corner of the room like it might answer for me. It doesn’t.

So I shove myself upright, grab the laptop off the desk, and flop back onto the bed. The screen glares. I’m ready to hate whatever’s waiting; assignments, project updates, maybe another reminder from Jordan that deadlines exist.

Instead there’s an email I don’t expect.

Invitation: Campus Panel on Queer Youth and Media.

My stomach drops before I even click it open.

The email is long, official, stuffed with words like “representation” and “student voices,” but all I really see is my name in the middle of it. Someone, somehow, put me on a list. Me. Not Seth, not Jordan, not anyone who actually belongs there.

I snap the laptop shut.

For a second I just sit there with my hands flat against the lid, like maybe I can crush the email out of existence by force. It’s not e
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    Alex ~By the time I wake up the next morning, I’m still riding the high of last night. The mail from the program hasn’t left my head since I clicked accept, and even though I didn’t sleep much, my chest feels light in a way it hasn’t in weeks.I glance over at Seth’s bed, already planning the way I’ll tell him. But he’s up before me for once, pulling on his hoodie, hood already tugged halfway over his face. Normally he’d throw some dumb comment at me, or stall by lying back down until I got annoyed, but today he just grabs his bag and mutters, “Going out.”I sit up, blinking at him. “Wait Seth. I have something to tell you.”He pauses with his hand on the door but doesn’t look at me. “Later, okay?”And then he’s gone.The words sit heavy on my tongue the rest of the morning. I replay them while I’m brushing my teeth, while I’m sitting through class, while I’m half-heartedly answering Tracey’s texts. I imagine the way it could have gone; his grin breaking across the room, some dumb jo

  • More Than Roommates    Chapter 56: Request

    Alex~I tell myself I’m going to get up and do something useful, but ten minutes later I’m still sitting on the floor with yesterday’s hoodie half on, staring at the corner of the room like it might answer for me. It doesn’t.So I shove myself upright, grab the laptop off the desk, and flop back onto the bed. The screen glares. I’m ready to hate whatever’s waiting; assignments, project updates, maybe another reminder from Jordan that deadlines exist.Instead there’s an email I don’t expect.Invitation: Campus Panel on Queer Youth and Media.My stomach drops before I even click it open.The email is long, official, stuffed with words like “representation” and “student voices,” but all I really see is my name in the middle of it. Someone, somehow, put me on a list. Me. Not Seth, not Jordan, not anyone who actually belongs there.I snap the laptop shut.For a second I just sit there with my hands flat against the lid, like maybe I can crush the email out of existence by force. It’s not e

  • More Than Roommates    Chapter 55: Caught

    Seth~The first thing I hear when I wake up is Alex’s phone buzzing. Over and over, a relentless hum against the nightstand. For a second I think it is just another alarm, something he forgot to turn off after setting five yesterday. But then his hand shoots out, groggy, and the glow of the screen reflects off his face. He freezes.I roll over. “What is it?”He doesn’t answer right away, and that’s enough to make me sit up. The light from the screen paints his expression pale, hollow. I lean closer, and that’s when I see a video.It is shaky, shot from the stands, but the moment is clear. Last night. The corner of the hallway outside the gym. It’s a video of Alex tugging me forward, whispering that he is not scared anymore, his mouth pressing to mine. The clip catches the way my hands bury into his shirt, the way I breathe like I have been waiting for years.And now it is online.“Who—” I start, but the words catch. My chest is tight.Alex turns the screen toward me, and I see the ca

  • More Than Roommates    Chapter 54: Quiet Victory

    Alex~The crowd is still buzzing long after the final whistle, the gym alive with noise and the heat of bodies pressed close together. My teammates are hollering, slapping each other on the back, throwing towels in the air like the win belongs to no one and everyone at the same time. The sound of sneakers squeaking against the hardwood is drowned out by cheers, the chant of my name echoing somewhere in the stands, but all of it feels far away.Because my eyes land on him.Alex is leaning against the wall near the tunnel, half-hidden behind a cluster of students waiting for photos. His arms are folded, like he is trying to keep himself small, but his eyes give him away. They are fixed on me. It knocks the air from my chest harder than the game ever could.I go through the motions, high-fiving, grinning, letting the sweat cling to me like proof I belong here. But my pulse isn’t in the court anymore. It is already across the floor, with him.When I finally step off the court, he doesn’t

  • More Than Roommates    Chapter 53: Truth

    Seth~I trail after him across campus, but it feels more like chasing the shadow of someone who doesn’t want to be caught. Alex doesn’t look back once, not even when his pace falters at the edge of the quad and he nearly runs into a couple holding hands. He just cuts between them, muttering an apology I can barely hear. His shoulders are locked, his hands jammed in his pockets, and every step screams the same thing: don’t follow me.And I follow anyway.The campus looks like it always does at this hour, kids spilling out of the library, groups clustering on the steps, laughter carrying across the open space, but I barely see any of it. All I see is the space between Alex and me, a distance that feels like it’s grown miles in the last twenty-four hours. I could close it easily. Jog a few steps, grab his arm, force him to listen. But the set of his jaw when he passed me back there is still sharp in my head, and I know if I touch him now, he’ll shake me off. So I keep just far enough bac

  • More Than Roommates    Chapter 52: Paper Lies

    Alex~The library is quieter than I expect for a Tuesday afternoon, sun slanting through the high windows in streaks that cut across the long rows of desks. I spot Jordan easily, hunched over a stack of notes with his earbuds in, tapping a pen against his laptop like the beat is something only he can hear.I drop my bag on the chair beside him, and he looks up with that grin of his that always feels half-mocking, half-genuine.“Alex,” he says, pulling one bud out. “Man of mystery. Thought you disappeared.”“I’ve been around.” I slide into the chair, tugging a notebook out mostly so I look like I have a reason to be here.“Around where? The Bermuda Triangle?” He leans back, smirking. “You ghost me for days, and then show up like nothing happened. I feel neglected.”“You’ll survive,” I say, flipping my pen between my fingers.Jordan chuckles. “Cold. Real cold.” He nudges the water bottle across the desk toward me. “Drink. You look like you haven’t had a glass of water since last week.”

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