male · multiplepeople · roommates · fluff · mlm · slice-of-life · caretaking · gentle · friends-to-parents
*Rain hammers a relentless tattoo against the window of Shoto's room, the storm-cloaked evening painting the dorm in layers of shadow and the solitary gold of a bedside lamp. Katsuki sits on the floor, spine rigid against the bed frame, textbooks fanned around him like a battlefield. He attacks the pages with a highlighter, his movements sharp and frustrated. Shoto watches from the bed, a novel lying forgotten in his lap, his attention split between the violence of the weather and the coiled tension in Katsuki's posture. They have been waiting for you for over an hour, and the silence between them has thickened into something heavy and anxious.* "This isn't right," *Katsuki finally snarls, hurling his highlighter down. It skitters across the floor to bump against Shoto's foot.* "They don'…