Scolex Co-Op

Studying

College roommate AU? Why not lol
Ah college. Where everybody finds out new things. Like homosexual tendencies. Whoops.

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Alex curses as he drops his keys for the third time. The door had always had a tough lock, and his slightly inebriated state was not helping him get it open.

"Stupid." Scott giggles, mocking Alex. "You're not helping." he says. He swipes the key from him, knowing he's a little more sober than Alex. He gets the key in the lock after his second try and finally unlocks the door.

"Shit!" Alex hisses out as he stubs his toe on the mini-fridge. "Turn the lights on, asshole!"

Scott feels the wall for the switch and flicks it on, momentarily blinding them both. "Fucking hell." he curses, squeezing his eyes shut.

Alex heads straight for his bunk, feeling like he could sleep for days. But something feels....off. "Scooott," he whines out, "what day is tomorrow?"

"Um..." Scott slurs and looks at the calendar that conveniently hangs on the wall. He squints his eyes before looking at the large 29 encircled with a red marker. "29th." he mumbles and reads the scribble underneath. It then hit him like a ton of bricks. "Alex!" he yells, startled.

"29th..." Alex tries to remember why that day is important but his fogged-up brain draws a blank.

"You bitch, we have a midterm exam in Psych tomorrow!" Scott holds his head in pain with the thoughts rushing to him all at once. "God, did we even study for that?" he panics.

"FUUUCK" Alex growls out. He rolls out of his bed and stumbles over to his desk. "Where the hell are my notes?"

Scott frowns at his roommate. "You honestly think you can study when you're drunk?" he deadpans and tosses his notebook.

"I'm not that drunk!" Alex mumbles out. He almost misses his chair when he tries to sink into it, flipping off his roommate when he busts out laughing.

Scott shakes his head and flops on his own bed. "Can't we just do that in the morning?" he groans out.

Alex opens his notebook and just stares at the page. Is this even English?? "Fuck it." He sighs in defeat. "First dibs on shower." He had to scrub off the party they'd just come from.

Scott sticks his foot out, hoping Alex would trip.

Sure enough, Alex stumbles and just barely manages to stop himself from faceplanting on the hard tile floor. "You ASSHOLE!"

Scott giggles and throws a drunken grin at him. "I go first! You have to sober up before you shower!!"

"Who the hell made that a rule?"

"Since," Scott says, sitting up, "I am not having you slip up the shower and hit your head."

"But you just tripped me!!" Alex slumps back onto his mattress and runs his hand through his hair, already feeling his buzz wearing off. "Fine, but if you use all of the hot water I'm gonna hide your redbull in the morning."

Scott makes a face. "Try me, Kirk." he rolls his eyes. He gets up and makes his way to the bathroom for a quick shower. He emerges from the shower a few minutes after, skin slightly red from the hot water and the alcohol.

Alex was passing the time by getting sucked into his phone and making a few tweets he'd probably regret in the morning. When Scott re-enters the room with a towel wrapped low on his waist, he finds himself staring. 'Damn, he has a nice back.' He blinks and rubs at his eyes. 'Maybe I'm drunker than I thought. Ew.'

Scott quickly changes into a tank top and some boxers, his back to Alex all this time. So when he turns around and sees Alex staring, he makes a face. "Get showering, you look wasted." he shakes his head.

Alex looks up at Scott silently for a few seconds before his brain catches up with him. "R-right. Yeah." he stutters out while grabbing his towel. "Be out in a few."

Scott shakes his head again and settles on the nearest bed which happens to be Alex's. He starts getting comfortable and... maybe a little creepily, he smells Alex's sheets that he always finds so good. He buries his face in the sheets, completely wiped.

Alex leans against the shower wall, letting the warm water clear his mind. Why was he thinking about his roommate? He was his friend, and, by the way, he was a dude. 'I'm never drinking again.' He shuts off the water and pulls on some sweats. When he exits the bathroom, he stares down in shock at the boy strewn across his bed.

Scott was almost asleep when Alex came out of the shower, but he shuffles and wakes up, yawning. "You still gonna study?" he asks.

"I-I uh," Alex swallows, "yeah just for a few minutes. I need to do well on this exam." He shuffles over to his desk, mentally cursing at how flustered he was. Hopefully Scott couldn't tell...

Scott frowns disapprovingly. "Might as well stay up with you. There's no way I'm getting sleep with the lights on." he sighs and situates himself in a better position.

"Yet you still manage to fall asleep in class." Alex jests. The next twenty minutes are uneventful as he tries to cram at least a little bit of the past few chapters. Sighing, he closes his notebook and heads back to his bed. Again, he finds himself staring down at his roommate. "Scott? I'd like to sleep now. Get your ass up."

Scott, with his face still buried in the sheets, shakes his head. "No..." he mumbles.

Alex crawls up onto the bed and tries to push Scott off, but only manages to roll him onto his back. Instantly, he becomes keenly aware of the close proximity of their faces. He glances down at Scott's lips. 'Why do I want to kiss him?'

Scott, with eyes closed, feels himself being pushed on his back. He knows Alex won't be cruel enough to actually push him off the bed, so he stays still in hopes of Alex ignoring him and letting him sleep there.

Alex finds himself leaning in mindlessly. He studies Scott's face, his breath becoming uneven.

Scott throws his arm over his eyes and peeks at Alex. "What?" he scrunches his nose.

Before he can change his mind, Alex throws caution to the wind and just goes for it. He leans in the rest of the way and lightly presses his lips to Scott's, his face flushing immediately.

Scott, instinctively, leans his head back further in the sheets but didn't do anything else to avoid Alex's kiss. It feels awkward and strange, but Alex's lips were too soft to be ignored. He flutters his eyes closed, kissing him back.

After a few seconds Alex pulls back, blushing furiously. "I-fuck I'm sorry I don't know why I did that." Alex moves to sit up on the bed, hiding his face in his hands.

"Uh..." Scott utters, still stunned by Alex's bold move. "Um... okay...?" Scott frowns in confusion. "I'm just..." he looks around, avoiding Alex's face. "gonna go." he finishes lamely and stands up to move to his own bed. He looks back at Alex with a small smile, despite the awkwardness. "Night, Kirk."

"Goodnight." Alex mumbles out, before settling into his sheets and facing the wall away from Scott. 'What the fuck is wrong with me?'

Scott lays back on his own bed and looks up at the ceiling, unable to sleep. Since when did Alex like him? Was he just drunk?

They both eventually drifted off to sleep that way, questions swirling through their heads.

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So Alex just kissed his roommate. Casual.

Part two will be up soon in the R-rated book ^-^