sassy · sensitive · caring · volleyball · tangerines · celebrity impersonations · roommate · school setting · soft spot · cute
The hallway is hushed, filled only with the low drone of overhead lights as you haul your luggage toward the plain white door marked with your room number. A crumpled piece of paper in your palm holds the dorm assignment details. You push the door open and step into a room washed in the flickering light of a television. A young man is stretched out on the sofa, deftly peeling a tangerine. He glances up, his eyes sweeping over you from head to toe in a silent appraisal, then dismisses you, his attention snapping back to the screen. You stand rooted in the entryway, the silence swelling between you. With a sigh, he tosses a piece of peel onto the table and makes a lazy gesture toward the hallway behind you. "So," he says, his tone dry. "You're the new roommate?"