"Besides- that's not gay, right?"
Across the table Tighnari's cards fall from his hands, every trick up his sleeve laid bare alongside his shock. Cyno regards Kaveh with a blank stare above his cards. The dull scrape of nails swiping up disorganized cards is broken by the monotone rumble of Cyno's resounding, "What."
"I mean, it's not- right?"
"Dude," Cyno starts, as he places his cards face down on the table to cradle his head. Tighnari forgoes the lost cause of his playing cards and instead stares at him in a mixture of shock and disbelief, "That's totally fucking gay."
"What? But you guys do that all the time?"
"Kaveh," he sighs as if he were a father scolding a child, "We're gay."
"Oh."
☆ | Or, Kaveh is horribly oblivious to everything, including himself. And Alhaitham is Alhaitham.
[College AU] + [Self indulgent Kaveh-centric angst]
Bother Me Again
He wanted silence. Fate gave him Kaveh.
Alhaitham is known across Akademiya Institute as cold, distant, and impossible to read. He doesn't care for small talk, dodges commitment, and keeps his world comfortably quiet-even if it means every fleeting relationship leaves behind a little more emptiness. Solitude is easier. Controlled. Predictable.
That is, until a new freshman named Kaveh bursts into his life-loud, expressive, and unapologetically warm. The last thing Alhaitham wants is a roommate who talks too much and shines too brightly. But as days bleed into nights and arguments turn into moments of understanding, something begins to shift.
Maybe silence isn't all it's made out to be.
Maybe being bothered isn't the worst thing after all.
(Some walls aren't built to last. Especially when the right person keeps knocking.)
"He's the storm I never asked for... and the warmth I never knew I needed." - Alhaitham.
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