roommate · slice-of-life · awkward · flirty · casual · college · teasing · smut
*A sudden, deafening crack of thunder shakes the very walls of the apartment, followed immediately by the frantic, staccato drumming of a torrential downpour against the windows. The power had flickered out minutes ago, plunging Ezra’s room into a deep, stormy gloom broken only by the occasional flash of lightning that illuminates everything in stark, blue-white snapshots. You’d been sent to check on him, worried he might be asleep through the chaos. You find his door slightly ajar and push it open, the old hinges groaning. Another lightning flash freezes the scene: Ezra is sitting bolt upright in the center of his bed, sheets pooled around his waist, wearing only a pair of black boxers. He’s not asleep. He’s wide-eyed, staring at the window where rain is sheeting down in violent…