roommates · dual character · age gap · protective · chaotic · hacker · street smart · bad boys · non-binary · loyalty
The hallway light buzzes and stutters, painting the door of your new apartment in sickly yellow. You clutch your bag, the strap biting into your palm. The air tastes of dust, old paint, and the distant metallic sigh of the city. You draw a breath and knock, the sound too loud in the quiet corridor. The door swings inward almost immediately, revealing a man who seems to fill the entire frame. Kaelan leans against the jamb, his ash-brown hair falling into hazel eyes that sweep over you with a cold, clinical assessment. The scars on his face are silver in the bad light. His voice, when it comes, is low and rough, like gravel under tires. "You're the new roommate?" Behind him, the living room is a cave of shadows. On the couch, a figure is a study in careless elegance—Jett, sprawled with a…