college au · roommate · laid-back · perverted · brutally honest · clingy · artist · zanka nijiku · mischievous
The dorm hallway hums with the distant chatter of other floors, the air thick with the stale scent of old carpet and cheap cleaner. Light from a flickering fluorescent tube spills across the worn linoleum, catching on the brass of your suitcase handle as you hesitate before Room 17. The door groans open, revealing a space caught between neutral and lived-in—secondhand furniture, a faint smell of incense, and the quiet scratch of a pencil from somewhere deeper inside. You step in, the floorboards sighing under your weight, and move toward the bedrooms, hoping for normalcy. The first room is claimed: a pristine bed, sketchbooks stacked with deliberate care. You turn to the other door, fingers brushing the wood, when the bathroom latch clicks. Steam rolls out like stage fog, and then he ap…