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Shuffling with the few boxes in his arms Freminet fetches the dorm key from his pocket as he also tried to pay attention to what Charlotte is saying. Sadly, like most times when he's stressed, he loses focus, however, Charlotte is so absorbed in what she's saying that she doesn't notice. With a push the door opens and Freminet rushes to the nearest counter and places his boxes there.
Taking a breath Freminet looks around seeing the counter he's at is the kitchen island. Looking forward he sees a couch and assumes that area is the living room to one side of the room are a few doors then on the other side is a corridor where he'd guess is the bedrooms.
Suddenly Freminet feels a tap on his shoulder and remembers who he's with, "Freminet you there?" Charlotte leans in front of him catching his full attention.
"Yeah sorry I wasn't paying attention to what you were saying I was just...", He tries to explain but the look in her eyes tells him he doesn't need too.
"I know this isn't the best situation but at least our rooms are next to each other, and it's not like this is all bad." She tries to comfort him but they know each other well enough that she knows it won't help, so instead she tries to redirect the situation. "How bout we pick your room and take some photos?" Holding up her camera Charlotte smiles at Freminet who in turn calms down with the distraction. Freminet nods and in seconds Charlotte drags him down the hall to where two doors are facing each other. Charlotte first opens the door on the left they both poke their heads inside seeing a simple rectangle room with a closet on the right side of the room. After their quick glance they then look into the other door to find almost the exact same layout except a single window on the opposite side of the room from the door. "Makes sense, no point in making the rooms look different." Freminet comments as Charlotte nods along. "I'd prefer the room with the window but what do you think?" Looking towards him Freminet looks between the rooms thinking it over for a moment before speaking again. "I don't really care but I'd assume most others would want a window so I'll take the left room." Charlotte nods but based on her scrunched eye brows she doesn't understand his thoughts process. "I want to leave a good impression so giving them the better room would be nice."
"That's sweet but what if they don't want the window." Charlotte's words catch him by surprise but before he can think about it they hear the front door rattle, "Well guess it's the moment of truth, ready?" Freminet isn't able to answer before he hears the front door open.
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Gaming final opens the door with a shove, almost falling in the process. He puts the boxes in his arms down and moves to grab his other boxes from outside but stops when he sees someone with pink hair round a corridor and rush towards him.
"Hello! I'm assuming your the other person who got this dorm?", The person says.
Quickly matching theirs energy Gaming responds, "Yeah! I'm Gaming, are you my roommate?" The person shakes their head and looks over to the corridor and puts out their arms as if to display something.
"Nope! He is I'm just helping him." Looking towards the corridor Gaming sees what he can only describe to be the most beautiful person he's ever seen leaning against the wall watching the both of them.
His roommate walks towards them and joins the conversation, "Hello yes I'm your roommate... Uh my name's Freminet it's nice to meet you." Hearing his voice Gaming's brain crashes making him fail to notice Freminet reach out his hand for a hand shake. When he does notice he quickly grabs his hand and shakes it more roughly then he intended.
"Hey! Yeah I'm Gaming nice to meet you too!" Freminet seems to almost say something but bites it back, it takes a moment but Gaming notices he probably already knew his name from the first introduction, 'come on you've seen a lot of good looking people what makes this different?' with another look at Freminet Gaming answers his question, 'None of them were this good looking!'
With a shake of his head Gaming finally tries to talk again, "Oh right you probably already heard my name. Yeah lets move on from that please, so where are the rooms in here?" Freminet nods and walks to the corridor prompting Gaming to follow, however, Charlotte stays back in the living room watching the two interact.
Stopping at the end of the hall way Freminet turns back to Gaming, "The rooms are the exact same but the room on th- your right has a window, you can chose which one you want." Gaming raises an eyebrow to Freminet's remark and says.
"Hey wait you got here first so you get first pick on the room not me." Freminet shakes his head and responds.
"I don't really care about having a window so I thought you should pick because you might care more about it then me." Gaming finds the idea endearing and coincides so as to not kick up too much of a fuss over who gets which room. With a quick glance into both rooms Gaming makes his choice.
"I'll take the room on the right cause I'm used to seeing the sun in the morning cause you see I usually wake up super early so I can clean myself up and do some exercise. I'm usually out of the house by the time the sun is rising so I'm ju-," suddenly realizing how much he's talking Gaming stops in the middle of his sentence and scratches his head in embarrassment. "Whoops sorry I can start yapping a lot about... well honestly anything. If I ever start talking to much you can just shut me up, no hard feelings I swear."
Looking at Freminet's face he sees him look down at his hands when he responds, "it's fine It's easier to listen to others talk then try to make fully conversation so it's fine if you talk a lot." Gaming swears he feels his heart skip a beat hearing that because it's not often that people actually enjoy hearing him ramble, he can feel the smile forming on his lips. He sees Freminet start to scramble about something but when he looks up at Gaming he stops and turns to the left hidding his face. "A-anyways we can talk later after we're done packing see you later." And in a flash Freminet is off to grab his boxes with Charlotte moving to help him.
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Shutting the door behind himself Freminet moves into his room with Charlotte leaning against a wall having placed down his boxes, "So he's definitely energetic, but he seems nice, what do you think?" Freminet mulls over their interaction for a moment thinking about how exactly he felt. 'Gaming definitely talks a lot but it is nice cause then I don't have to talk as much. He seemed nervous but that makes sense when you're meeting someone new. Overall I think we could get along, I really hope we can get along.' Freminet having finished thinking answers Charlotte's question. "I think we can get along but I'm not sure of anything else." Charlotte nods agreeing and opens her mouth to say something but is caught off by something else Freminet says, "he has a really nice smile too." Charlotte is stunned for a moment as Freminet starts opening a box. In the entirety of their 8 year long friendship not once has Freminet commented on someone's appearance he just never thinks about it unless someone points it out, but here he is so easily completing Gaming's smiles. Charlotte first stands slack jawed before slowly breaking into laughter, "Wait, wait, wait, WAIT," the yell causes Freminet to flinch but Charlotte continues, "Did you, Freminet, just say something about how someone else looks?" Freminet pauses when he hears her words and thinking over his description of Gaming he grows puzzled, "Why did I say that?" That pure confusion is enough to send make Charlotte couch her stomach as she begins to laugh, much to Freminet's embarrassment. 🦁 The moment Gaming has all his boxes in his new room he pulls out his phone and quickly texts the group chat he has with all his friends who went to college with him. *TURN BACK NOW* Lion: guys help me Butterfly: is your roommate some kinda creep? Worm: knowing Gaming he could still become friends with them Lion: no it's not that bad but it's still a problem Crane: so it is related to your roommate? Bear:TELL US!!! stop tip toeing around the topic Lion: my roommate is gorgeous Lion: like I wouldn't be shocked if he's a model Gaming very quickly realizes his mistake as instantly Xingqiu and Hu tao are laughing at his "problem". Sliding down to the floor Gaming feels embarrassment creep in on him as he thinks over his conversation with his new roommate. However whenever he thinks about Freminet himself his worries fade away into his clear blue eyes. Freminet's features, voice, and mannerisms cross his mind making him feel giddy about getting to know the blond beauty.