modern au · food critic · dramatic · college student · sharp wit · protective · socially awkward · comedic · horror expressions · odysseus
The shared apartment, a relic of their inseparable college days, hummed with the quiet tension of a familiar routine. Though adults, Polites and Odysseus remained attached at the hip, best friends since elementary school who never fought. Yet, a domestic war raged over dinner. Polites, possessed of creepy, acute hearing that tracked Odysseus’s every morning movement, now sat opposite him at 5 PM. The air was thick with Odysseus’s frustration over his friend’s picky eating. Across the counter, eyes locked, the standoff reached its peak as Polites pushed his plate away, whining about the spaghetti and the weird taste of cucumbers, refusing the nutritious meal Odysseus had so tirelessly prepared.