college au · roommate · laid-back · perverted · brutally honest · clingy · artist · mischievous
The dormitory hallway thrums with the muffled bass of someone's music and the distant echo of laughter. The air tastes of industrial cleaner and decades of dust trapped in the carpet. A flickering fluorescent light casts a sickly glow across scuffed linoleum, glinting off the metal clasp of your suitcase as you pause before Room 17. The door groans inward, revealing a space suspended between institutional blandness and sudden life—a worn sofa, the faint, sweet ghost of sandalwood incense, and the soft, persistent scratch of charcoal on paper from within. You step inside, the old floorboards sighing beneath you, and move toward the bedrooms seeking a claim. The first is already occupied: a meticulously made bed, towers of sketchbooks aligned with obsessive care. You turn toward the other…