In Front of the Camera

First Day

Time flew by and some how Off's room was never quite finished, while the bed was set up his clothes and stuff magically migrated to Gun's room. This meant Off's room and the bathroom designated for him became known as the spare rooms. They been moved for almost two and neither of the men seemed to dislike sharing a room so why waste energy on changing a room around when they could spend that energy playing games or watching movies or going out and getting wasted together. A wise person once said "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." and Off and Gun were happy to live by those words.

They'd officially been living away from home for 13 days and while Off missed his parents, it wasn't anywhere near as much as  he'd feared. He was never lonely because he had Gun and he'd asked if he was homesick he'd shook his head smiling and said "If I could bring Pim to live with us I'd never never need to go home again." They looked out for each other and spent basically every moment together it was like a two week vacation with your best friend and they were both having a ball.

They'd lived on take away food for the first few days but decided to learn to cook together after a while. Off had imagined them side by side working together as team each contributing 50% to the cooking but after he managed to burn a pan of water for the 4th time Gun took control. He gave Off orders and Off followed them and 9 times out of 10 their food came out edible. The other time things that were supposed to be cookies came out as fizzy, salty abominations that were never spoken of again.

Their two weeks had passed in the blink of an eye but now it was time for them to leave their little bubble of fun and start LivTech University like real grown ups. They had both signed up to do film studies but still had some separate classes as Gun was doing two courses along side each other. Off called him a smart ass when he found out but he was not so secretly really proud of how smart his friend was. Unfortunately this meant that while they had all of Off's classes together Gun was busy studying creative writing in almost all of Off's free periods.

Today was a Freshers day where all new students got acquainted with the university, their fellow students and also the surrounding areas. Off and Gun met up with their Filmography classmates and did some ice breaking activities. They seemed like a nice bunch of guys and girls from what they could tell but it wasn't like you could learn someone's life story in the space of 2 hours. The pair did feel like they really gelled with a guy named Tay, he was like if a ball of sunshine and a puppy some how combined and he was into the same games and movies they were.

By the end of the ice breaking session Gun had dubbed Tay his "Pet" and Off and Tay were referring to each other as "Peng". Gun felt glad that he and Off had made a friend already because as soon as this session was over Gun was scheduled to attend another one but this time he would be alone. He was glad that Off wouldn't be bored at least while he was gone as he and Gun's pet were going to hang out. Gun said his good byes and headed over to the next building to find his other class.

Gun's creative writing class ice breaker was a little different but the premise was identical. Gun was a little worried about doing this class without his Papi but he told himself that they couldn't be together 24 hours a day no matter how badly he wished they could. The past two weeks had been like a twisted sort of heaven for Gun, it gave him a glimpse of what being in a relationship with Off would be like but confirmed to him that it was highly unlikely Off would ever return his romantic feelings. They'd been sharing a bed every night and the guy hadn't laid a finger on him.

Shaking away his thoughts, Gun focused his new classmates. They again seemed to be a likeable bunch but even with the ice breakers Gun was struggling to really connect with anyone. For the final game he was paired up with a huge bear of a guy called New. He seemed OK but he was a little quiet until Gun's stomach rumbled and he went into mother hen mode. He pulled all sorts of candy out of his bag and started fussing over Gun, asking when he'd last eaten and apologising for only having candy with him. He made Gun smile with his kindness and they were soon chatting away like old friends.

By the end of the session the two men had decided to continue hanging out so Gun called Off to see if he and Tay were  still out having fun. They had just finished eating and were heading to a bar for a few drinks so Gun announced that he and New would join them soon before saying goodbye to Papi and hanging up. As they walked to bar Off had given them directions to New asked  Gun if 'Papi' was his boyfriend. Gun froze for a moment he hadn't even told Off about his sexuality so how did a guy he'd known for all of two hours know he was gay?

The good thing was he didn't seem to be judging Gun for it more like he was just curious about their relationship. Gun explained about their relationship and how they were best friends and nothing more. New looked like he wanted to dig a little deeper but just continued walking. "I wish I could find a best friend like that." New said wistfully as they finally reached the bar. "I'm sure we'll all become really close before you know it New." Gun said smiling at his newest friend. "I think we're going to have a lot of fun together." He finished waving to Off and Tay as he spotted them. "Come on," he said pulling New by the arm "I can't wait to introduce you to Papi and Tay." New followed him happily, he was so glad to finally be making some friends.