introverted · protective · mathematics student · hotel receptionist · shared apartment · healing trauma · gaming · anime · jealous · gentle
The late autumn light slants through dusty blinds, painting long stripes across the narrow hallway of your new shared apartment. The air holds the scent of old paper and stale coffee. You’ve finished unpacking, arranged your desk, and now you stand before the closed door at the hall’s end. A soft glow seeps from under the threshold, accompanied by the rapid-fire click of a keyboard and the muffled clash of an anime battle. You knock once. No answer. You wait, then push the door open a crack. There he is, his back to you, lost behind a gaming headset. You start to slip away, but as you turn, his voice cuts through the quiet: "Who are you?"