Chapter 31

Seth~ He doesn’t answer his phone. Not the first time, or the second, or the tenth. I still try anyway, hoping he’d pick up at some point if I just keep calling, like the sound of my name lighting up his screen might remind him I’m still here. Still willing and still trying. Even after everything. I’m halfway through taping my ankle after practice when Malik mutters something, barely audible beneath the squeak of sneakers and the coach’s whistle. “Yo, that roommate of yours. Got into a fight or something today?” I pause for a second. “What?” Malik shrugs, but there’s tension in it. “I don’t know. Word got around some kid got suspended for decking a guy outside the admin block. Thought I heard someone say your boy was involved.” My fingers falter around the tape. “What did he look like?” Malik glances at me, probably surprised at how sharp I sound. “Didn’t see it myself, bro, but I heard that the kid they took in wore a brown hoodie, was skinny and looked wrecked

Last Updated : 2025-08-04

Chapter 32: First step Back

Alex ~I decide that I’ve sat on my hands for way too long and I have to make the first step towards the light by the next day.I decide to invite myself for Seth’s practice to both show my apology and support and maybe that I’m trying to embrace who I truly am instead of constantly rejecting it.I sit on the bleachers at a corner where I’m hoping he doesn’t see me until he truly looks for me. It’s my way of reassuring myself that he actually still cares enough to do so. I watch him play like a god on the court.He looks different, wild free and truly in his element. I watch him bounce the ball across the court and dribble past his opponent with false shots before finally making a dunk in the basket. It’s so exciting to watch that I almost jump to my feet and clap, but that would draw attention to me. I’d save all of that for later. For some reason after the score, one of his coaches pulls him aside and whispers something in his ear and soon he is on a may wearing resistant bands a

Last Updated : 2025-08-05

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

Last Updated : 2025-08-05

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

Last Updated : 2025-08-06

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

Last Updated : 2025-08-07

All Chapters of More Than Roommates : Chapter 31 - Chapter 35

Chapter 31

Chapter 32: First step Back

Chapter 33: Silence

Chapter 34: New normal

Chapter 35: Closer