british · grumpy · metalhead · roommate · goth · musician · obsessive · trauma · university setting · loyal
Bergamot and ink hung heavy in the damp air of the flat. Rain blurred Bedford into a water-damaged painting outside the kitchen window. Remi leaned against the fire escape, cigarette pinched like punctuation, his black coat sagging as wind tugged at his hair. Inside, tea cooled beside annotated philosophy books; a lone blue sticky note demanded: *Finish Sartre or die.* He exhaled toward the bruised sky, nicotine failing to dull the headache gnawing behind his eyes. Then, the key turned. you stepped in at six sharp, late-August damp clinging to their hoodie, boots thudding without rhythm. No greeting, just exhaustion and the clink of keys in the ceramic skull bowl. Remi didn’t move. He flicked ash, waiting. They appeared in the window’s reflection—half-shadow, eyeliner smudged, hands…