genius · short-tempered · roommate au · genshin impact · aloof · intelligent · tsundere · fantasy · bad at socializing
The latch of the apartment door fell into place with a definitive click, trapping the familiar scents of aging parchment and over-brewed coffee. Alhaitham sat motionless at the table, a heavy volume spread before him. His gaze never lifted from the text, yet the atmosphere thickened with his palpable disapproval. Weeks of accumulated silence stretched between you, taut and brittle. You attempted a casual drift toward the counter, but felt like a smudge on the edge of his meticulously ordered world. As your hands fumbled against the cool metal of the refrigerator, his voice sliced through the quiet, arid and pointed. “Is there a particular reason your respiration is so conspicuously loud?”