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Yoru enters the dorm he was assigned, dropping the bags mostly packed with clothing with a groan. He looked around the place and it was fairly clean, some items seems to be misplaced but the way it was decorated wasn't too bad. He kinda even liked it to some extent?
His roommate wouldn't be home until 5pm and that leaves him with about 2 hours to unpack and organize. He prays for a roommate who minds their own business and doesn't do chit chats.
The dorm had 1 bathroom, 2 bedrooms and one living/kitchen area and fairly spaced out. He did pay good money for a room with a view and he did get a floor to ceiling view to enjoy. The style the dorm was decorated in was contemporary mostly with red black and white furnitures. His only complaint was the lack of blue hues in the area and some disorganization here and there.
He got to his room, the area where his bed was at was elevated by a few inches, a ceiling to floor window and dark blue wallpaper. After moving all his bags he got to work.
2 hours later he still wasn't done unpacking.
Grant barges into the dorm, throwing himself onto the couch forgetting he had just gained a new roommate for college. He laid there and briefly took a nap.
Whilst Yoru was getting out of his room to grab more cleaning supplies he took a quick glance to the person he assumed to be his roommate, a dark skinned man, quite tall and well built with a flashy way of dressing himself. He didn't want to be a creep and continued on cleaning his room.
20 minutes later Grant wakes up to the smell of ramen. He looked around to see someone dressed with a dark blue turtle neck, black pants and pushed back hair with a blue streak in the middle. He quickly fixed himself up and introduced himself.
"Ayo bruv! I'm sorry you had to see me like this when you first moved in.. I'm Phoenix by the way." He threw a sheepish smile at him.
"Yoru. That's all you need to know about me"
Well isn't he friendly Phoenix thought to himself.
"I cooked us some ramen while waiting for you to get up. Suck it up if you don't like it."
Yoru said coldly as he prepared the table for them to eat.
Though he was quite rude he was still nice in some way I guess? That's what Phoenix had thought of him, "Fam you shouldn't be the one cooking for us when you just moved in! Let me help–"
"It's fine. Sit your ass down and wait for the meal." He demandingly scoffed. Phoenix noticed that he has an accent of sorts like Japanese maybe?
Phoenix could only comply, hoping to get on good terms with this guy over dinner. They are gonna be living together anyway.
"So.. what are you studying?" This was Phoenix attempt to fill the silence they had going on.
"Medicine. My parents told me to. And it pays well so I don't care." He continued eating his ramen, not making any eye contact.
"You must be hella smart then! That's cool. I'm studying civil engineering since I wanna work on the world we live in now ya know? But I've always wanted to do something like being an actor."
"Well that sucks."
Phoenix stopped for a moment thinking: how rude can this guy get?
"Also where are you from, mate? You have a really interesting accent!" He tried to sound as polite as possible.
"Tokyo, Japan."
"Makes sense. You can probably already tell I'm from the Great Britain, yeah?"
"Mhm."
Yoru finished his meal and got up to put his dish in the sink, "I cook, you clean. Rule number one." Yoru got back to his room before Phoenix could even protest.
Phoenix got up and cleaned the dishes wondering if he had to put up with his rudeness for the whole duration of living with him. God did he wish Yoru had a tiniest bit of being nice in his heart atleast.
After finishing his chore he went over to their shared bathroom and it doubled in supplies. Phoenix maintained himself pretty well but the amount of product Yoru had was baffling. He hoped he could borrow some of it though.
He took of his shirt and started washing himself, hopefully no cute Japanese dude walks in on him shirtless uwu owo uwu
There was no cute dude who walked in.
It was quite from Yoru's room. He kinda got the impression that he wouldnt speak unless spoken to but if he was spoken to he'd be rude.
He shut off the lights in the living area and went to his own room, kinda messy since he's been busy attending lectures and parties. He knew he needed to make connections and parties seemed like a great opportunity to do so.
He walked over to his bed shoving some clothes that laid on it and sat down to check his phone.
wind bitch: yo phoenix who's ur new roomie
Hot cha cha cha: some rude guy. ://
Wind bitch: wym
Hccc. : he told me to suck it up if I didnt like his food :-( ps. I liked it anyway.
Wind bitch: is he hot?
Hccc. : idk. His rudeness gets in the way of his handsomeness Ig
Wind bitch: would y hook up with him doe?
Hccc.: fam. I don't know him yet plus- he seems like too much of a meanie. :((
Wind bitch: wouldn't that make him hotter in bed doe??? just sayin bgw
Hccc. : well kinda ig. gtg, I have an exam to study for. :/
While putting his phone down he had a thought: fuck I forgot to ask about his number. He figured he'd ask when they eventually see eachother again but for now he had to get himself up to study but oh no! The bed its sucking him in!! Now he cant get up and oh no(pt2) he fell asleep what a shame. :((
He felt like his own soul slap him to being awake again thankfully, he forgot to set his alarm the previous night. Grabbing a quick glance at his clock: 6:07 AM. He had enough time to get ready.
He opened the door to a familiar man wearing an undershirt and sweatpants cooking dinner.
"Why did you sleep in the same clothes that you wore last night?" Yoru asked immediately as he took a quick glance at Phoenix who just got out of his room.
"I accidentally fell asleep. Now I'm pissed I couldn't study." He frowned. Entering the shared bathroom and getting himself reading for the day. He exited with a more sophisticated outfit compared to what he arrived in last night.
"I told you bruv I could help with the meals and you don't have to cook for me in the first place!" Phoenix explained as Yoru served breakfast.
"Nonesense, we live together now. We may be strangers but were under the same roof and people under the same roof help eachother. Its basic decency and plus- I cook, you clean." Yoru spoke more words today compared to yesterday, improvement maybe? He's getting more comfortable with Phoenix?
"Oh and also, can I have your number? We might need to contact each other in case of an emergency"
"Asking for my number already? How bold." Yoru teased making Phoenix burn up a little bit on the inside- "Give me your phone I'll write it down for you."
And Phoenix complied, if Yoru tried to do anything funny he already has the upper hand
"Here," Yoru handed the phone back "Don't call or text me unless its serious." He hissed, turning back to the meal he was almost done preparing.
Phoenix patiently waited for the meal Yoru was preparing, it was nice feeling– having someone cooking a meal for the both of you was domestic bliss.
"Here. Enjoy." He handed him a plate with the standard english breakfast, Phoenix's curiosity just making him have to ask—
"Ayo fam, you from the UK too?"
"No. It's just more convenient to cook this because of the ingredients you already have." Yoru pointed out.
"Well how thoughtful"
They continued to eat their breakfast in semi comfortable silence then Yoru got up to get himself ready. And then when he got out of the shower Phoenix finished cleaning up after themselves and went in the bathroom shortly after.
Phoenix rushed out of the shower shivering, forgetting to grab his clothes and having to rush out with only his towel, Yoru's fortunate or unfortunate eyes getting exposed to Phoenix being topless.
"What the fuck." Was Yoru's first reaction to Phoenix and he just acted it was completely normal for him to show up only in a towel and Phoenix completely ignoring this–
"Did you take all the warm water?"
"What warm water? I showered in the cold." Yoru focusing his eyes towards the floor.
"What do you mean you showered in the cold?!"
"Firebird can't handle the cold well now can't he?"
Phoenix whined and shivered as he made his way to his own room.
Phoenix got himself ready in a black coat, black turtleneck and beige pants with his circular gold glasses. Grabbing his shoulder bag and heading out of his room noticing Yoru was already gone. Heading down from their dorm and seeing Yoru only getting his helmet ready and starting up his blue motorcycle. Phoenix was in awe with how this guy was gonna ride to school everyday, their campus was rather big and the medicine area was far from where their dorm was. Meanwhile Phoenix only needed to walk for 10 minutes to his classes.
"Do you need a ride?" Yoru asked as he noticed Phoenix was approaching.
"Well-"
"Too bad." He rode out of there as fast as he can too piss Phoenix off. And it worked lol
Phoenix finally arrived and after getting out of the lecture hall he bumped into Jett
"Ayo my man! How's the hot guy?"
"His rudeness doesn't let him be handsome."
"But you'd still get with him yeah?" Jett bumps her shoulder to Phoenix's playfully
"I literally just met the guy bruv"
"But still–" Jett cuts her own sentence off by seeing the massive crowd forming in the distance "What's happening over there?"
"Dunno"
Jett dragged Phoenix alongside to find out why there's such a big crowd
"Is there a dead body?" Phoenix asked sarcastically while squeezing through the crowd, eventually loosing Jett among the crowd.
Phoenix finally made it through the crowd and there he saw Yoru? Surrounded by people asking him question and him obviously uninterested by it. He looked extremely pissed at all these people gathering around and disrespecting his personal space
Phoenix was left confused after leaving the crowd his train of thought being halted by Jett who finally found him
"Dude can you believe that Sol is in our school?"
"Sol? His name's Yoru."
"Yoru? No that's definitely Sol"
"And that's my roomate"
"No. Fucking. Way"
Phoenix was pushed back by Jett having her hands on both of his shoulders and jumping up and down like a child
"YOU'RE ROOMMATES WITH SOL. SON OF THE FUCKING TAKERU SATOH?(real life actor from japan I'm just usin bc they look like what I HC yoru to look like but idk if they r old enough to have a 20 yr old son)"
"Jett chile I can hear you from right here"
"Bro you don't know Takeru Satoh?"
Phoenix shook his head
"Well let's sit down shall we?" She said threateningly
"So," Jett spoke "Takeru Satoh is a famous actor from Japan starring in Rurouni Kenshin. He has a son who looks just like him minus the eyes, and that's what makes Sol look so intimidating and angry all the time."
"I dont think it's because he has a resting bitch face I think it's the fans" Phoenix added
"And now you're telling me you never knew who his father was?"
Phoenix nodded
"And you're telling me YOU live with him??"
Phoenix nodded pt2
"God hates you"
"I already knew that but tell me why you think so too?"
"Both his dad and him have the craziest fans so goodluck" Jett pats him on the shoulder reassuringly as she got up, "Well I have to go. Being a future Chefs means shitty teachers who make us go to class way too early." She exasperated
They both said their goodbyes aka planning to meet up at the place Phoenix works at after school.
Phoenix's classes ended at 3pm today and that let him go to work early to make his boss happy. The coffee shop he worked at was owned by one of the science professors at the school which the students named "Killjoy" because every conversation anyone would have with her would become a physics lecture. She built this shop as an experiment for more coffee flavors because she felt like it and it became fairly popular. More popular than your average coffee shop.
"Ey boss"
"Goodafternoon, Phoenix! Please man the counter whilst I clean up in the back." Her german accent never left her since the first day of meeting her
"Aye did something explode again?"
"Ehe, yup! But do not worry about it!"
"Yeah sure" Phoenix answered reluctantly
Jett finally came in maybe about 15 minutes after Phoenix for her afternoon break, laying her head the counter and obviously upset about something.
"So," Phoenix plopped his arms on the counter," tell me, child. What happened"
Jett mumbled gibberish as an answer
"The usual?" Phoenix asked because being a barista was his job anyway
"The usual." Phoenix nodded while Jett rested on their counter
He finished her order and she got up from her little nap on the counter and asked, "Hey Phoenix, why are you working here anyway? Ain't your mom like hella rich?"
"Yeah but she's babied me her whole entire life and I wanna make my own money ya know?"
"The little bird wants to be independent now"
"Oh I've always been" Phoenix affirmed as he fixed his collar receiving an eye roll from Jett
Someone in a dark blue hoodie and glasses entered the shop, Phoenix having to move from their conversation to serve the new customer. As the stranger walked up to the counter they looked around the shop before taking off their hood and revealing Yoru
"Yoru?" Phoenix was puzzled on why Yoru was in some lame disguise
"The fangirls in this school are horrible. I had moved him from Japan to get away from this exact predicament!" Yoru was fuming with annoyance
"So why go here out of all places?"
"I noticed that you were working here while I was trying to find a place to hide." Yoru answered, taking a seat next to Jett and setting his forehead onto the counter
"I think you should get this man the Phoenix Special" Jett chimed in
"What special?" Yoru asked
"Oh just the special recipe I only serve Jett with! I may be a gifted barista" the tallest out of the bunch sassed, heading to the back to make the drink
"So yall are roommates?" Jett trying to make small talk to fill the space in the void Yoru only answering in a nod, placing his palm under his chin whilst waiting for his order to finish
"Do you think he's hot?"
"what."
Before Yoru could insult Jett for asking something so ridiculous Phoenix comes back with his order that he didn't even order
"So enjoy!" Phoenix bubbled
Yoru having to take a second to look away from Phoenix's wholesome ass face and then take a sip from his drink
"This is shit." Yoru lied
And Phoenix looked absolutely heartbroken
"Hey man you don't have to act all rude and shi"
"But it is shit therefore, I must tell you it is shit. Do a better job next time" Yoru dropped the drink and causing it to spill all over the floor
"Hey what the fuck man?" Jett exclaimed, bolting up to confront him
Yoru leaves the shop with his hands in the pockets of his hoodie and the hood back on his head
Phoenix was still quite upset about Yoru not liking the drink, he was so confident he'd like it as much as Jett did but he was wrong.
"Hey man, it's alright! Dicks will be dicks." Jett pats Phoenix on the back reassuringly
"I told you he was mean," Phoenix whined
"You have to go back to your classes Jett"
"Don't you need help clea- OH SHIT IM GONNA BE LATE" Jett practically dashed away realizing she'd be late if she didn't hurry up and leave at that moment, leaving Phoenix to clean the mess up alone.
Yoru was walking back to the medical faculty, feeling kinda guilty. 'Was that really necessary?' He thought to himself.
'That was embarrassingly immature of you.'
He thought to himself again. Thoughts like that emerged until he finally arrived to his classes, grateful no fangirl had spotted him on the way there.