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It's finals season. Some have finished, partying whether they passed or not. And the very rare few who haven't taken their finals, haven't come out of their dorms in a couple days; studying until their heads explode.
Amazing for Nexe, not only has he finished all of his exams, he passed them as well! He finished the last quarter of the year off strongly. His Vet. Med. exam at a 91%. Considering it's his major, he is quite proud and it's most important to him.
So now, sitting in his dorm, he's thinking of a way to celebrate. Resting against his headboard he looks over to see his dorm mates—Multi’s—bed empty. He’s finished with his finals, probably passed all of them with flying colors, and probably is out with his “child” right now.
He sighs and looks back at his phone, ruffling his hair, a nice latte color. He remembers the day he finished his last final, three days ago.
He walked out of class and was greeted by Tina in the hallway. Her kind, warm energy always made her amazing to be around.
Tina looked over at him and smiled sweetly.
“Hi Nexe!”
He smiled, equally excited to see her.
“Hi Tina!”
“Hiii! How have you been, have your exams gone well?” She asks, still cheerfully smiling.
“They’ve been good, what about you?”
They walk down the hall as they talk, passing by other students who had just finished their finals. From afar, he sees Ewron come out of a classroom and they make eye contact. Nexe looks away immediately and feels his ears get warm.
As Tina and Nexe eventually pass by Ewron, Tina gives him a smile, but Ewron is just staring at Nexe. Nexe, walking behind Tina in the hallway feels Ewron touch his hand, brushing it as they walk by.
Walking into the university center, they go to a café on the floor. Nexe orders an iced chai, and Tina orders a banana cream matcha. They sit down at a small table inside the shop and continue catching up, chatting about school, personal life, and potential love life; both of them blushing when someone is brought up.
Katie, walking by the café, spotted them and went over, clicking off her phone and putting it in her hoodie pocket.
“Hi guys!” She said proudly, dragging a chair out and sitting at their table.
“Hello Katie!" Nexe says, Katie's energetic aura making him even happier.
He looks over to Tina, who has a slight blush on her cheeks, and looks back at Katie who seems to be entirely oblivious.
“Hi Katie.” Tina says sweetly.
“Hi Tina.” She smiles and laughs softly.
Okay, maybe I was wrong, Nexe thought. Katie seems to be aware, but puts up an act? He doesn't know, and nor does he care that much.
“You’re so cheery right now, did you do well on your exams?” Tina asks.
“Yup! At least I hope so,” Katie says, “I did great, I'm just waiting on this last grade.” She adds confidently, still smiling.
They talk about their finals again for a bit, now with Katie.
“Oh!” Katie exclaims and they both look at her, “Are you guys doing anything to celebrate?”
“Hmm..” Tina says, hand on her chin, “I think I might just treat myself to something nice!” Katie hums in agreement.
“What about you, Nexe?” Tina asks curiously.
“Uhhhhh,” He thinks for a moment, “I’m not sure, probably something chill though.”
“Ah ok!” Tina says.
“I think when the season is fully over, there might be a party.” Katie says, leaning and slouching back in her chair.
Both Tina and Nexe hum in acknowledgment.
“I don't know if anyone will have any energy to party after exams.” Tina says, lightly laughing and Katie shrugs, getting out her phone and assumingly texting someone. As the hang-out winds down, Nexe decides to leave.
“Okay,” Nexe sighs as he gets up, “this was really fun! I hope we hang out again soon guys.” He smiles widely as he sees Tina get redder at the thought of being alone with Katie.
“Bye Tina, Bye Katie!”
“Bye Nexe!” Katie says happily as he walks off.
When turning the corner, he sees Multi on his phone walking towards the cafe, fingers motioning texting. He also sees Tina going down the stairs to the student lounge with Foolish and Juan. He smirks and giggles a bit, knowing what's going on. (And you do too, don't you?)
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Thinking of his options still, he stays laying in his bed, arm over his eyes. He doesn’t wanna party, that's too much; he doesn't have anything he wants to buy, so what could he do? He can't just do nothing, he has to reward himself for the many hours of studying. Something that can compensate for all the stress the cramming put on him.
Something to ease the stress he was put through…
He thinks for a bit, before he sits up with a gasp and a big smile.
A blunt!!
He gets out of his bed and throws on a black hoodie with the graphic “333” on it over his loungewear, which is a greyish-white tank top and some black sweatpants (and socks, always socks.) Grabbing his phone and wallet, he slips on some clogs and walks out the door.
Quickly going to his closest outlet, he goes to his nearest shop. It’s the one he normally goes to, and they know him quite well, but he's not a big smoker; only on special occasions.
He talks for a bit with the guy at the counter and then gets an Indica blunt.
Walking back to his dorm, its around 5-7pm (wish i could say 6… 😐) and the sun is starting to set, a greyish purple and pink coloring the sky. As he gets to the dormitories he passes by Ewron and Graf talking by the steps.
He notices Ewron staring up at him while he's unlocking the door, feeling his gaze burn at the back of his head and the bag he’s carrying.
He pays no mind to him as Ewron had also been eyeing him the previous days, even in the exam room where he was leaning on his arm and staring at Nexe with a smug smile, almost whipped.
Finally unlocking the door, he excitedly gets inside and accidentally makes eye contact with Ewron when turning around to close the door.
Getting into his dorm room he shuts the door and takes off his hoodie, slipping his shoes off at the door. In the bathroom he sits against the door,
grabbing a towel to plug the gap in between the floor and the door; not hearing his dorm door open. With the gap from the door to the floor somewhat plugged with a towel, he grabs the pre-roll and his lighter from his pant pocket.
About to light it, he brings the blunt and the lighter close together, flicking the fire on before getting interrupted and scared shitless by a knocking on the bathroom door.
“Nexe..” He hears a low, whiny voice call out to him from behind the door.
“Ewron? What do you want?” Nexe asks, getting up off the floor.
“Open the door,” Ewron tells him. Nexe rolls his eyes and moves the towel away from the door with his foot. Opening the door, Ewron almost falls over, he was leaning on it before it was opened. As soon as Ewron looks up at nexe from where hes leaned over, he beams.
“Nexe!” He says smiling, then it immediately drops.
“Have you been ignoring me?” Ewron questions, trying to be all serious.
Though Nexe's ears are a bit red, he gives Ewron an unimpressed look.
“Why would I be ignoring you?” Nexe asks, muttering idiot under his breath at the end of his sentence.
Ewron just whines and groans, changing the topic he asks,“Whatever, what are you doing?”
Blunt and lighter in his hand he stares at Ewron. “Flying a plane.” He says bluntly, “idiot, what do you think I'm doing? I'm smoking!” He holds up his hands.
“Why? What happened?” Ewron asks again.
“Ugh so many questions, im celebrating passing my finals.”
Ewrons face lights up. “Let me join.”
“Why? No, you probably didn't even pass most of them.” Nexe says, confused and squinting his eyes at the other.
“I'm not asking, I'm telling you this time.” Ewron crosses his arms over his chest.
Nexe rolls his eyes and moves to the side to let him in.
Nexe closes the door after him, pushing the towel to the crack again and sitting back against the door. Ewron follows suit and sits next to him.
He feels Ewron's eyes on his face while he lights the roll. He takes a big puff and passes it to Ewron who does the same. A couple more hits and the room is foggy, light grey swirls of air circling around.
They sit in silence for a bit, only Ewron's light cough breaking it as he takes a hit.
Nexe looks to him but he already finds Ewron staring, both of their eyes hazy.
“Why do you keep looking at me?” Nexe asks curiously.
“Because you're pretty.” Ewron says lazily, tilting his head against the door.
Nexe’s face flushes, and he analyzes Ewron's face.
“You’re not too bad either..” Nexe says as his gaze lands on his lips. Ewron laughs softly, still staring at Nexe, eyes traveling to his lips and then to his throat, his adams apple bobbing as he swallows.
Without saying anything they both move closer.
Their lips connect in a kiss, Ewron bringing his hand up to Nexe’s jaw and Nexe putting his arms loosely around his neck, it deepens. Their tongues explore each other's mouths, and Ewron moves his hand to the back of Nexe's neck to deepen it further and ease Nexe onto the floor.
While they kiss lazily, Nexe plays with Ewron's hair at the back of his neck. His fingers run through the maroon hair, pulling lightly. Ewron groans into the kiss, tilting his head slightly.
They finally pull away to get a big breath of air. Ewron looks down at Nexe with a dumb, smitten look on his face, eyes dazed. Nexe starts getting up.
“C’mon lets go, get up.” He says huskily. When they both get up Nexe fans some of the smoke and opens the window, trying to lessen the amount that will travel into the main room; not that Multi would really care that deeply, it's just to make less of a hassle when eventually airing everything out.
Ewron just stands there dumbly, only staring and admiring Nexe.
Nexe kicks the towel away from the door and grabs Ewron’s wrist, dragging them to his bed.
He pushes Ewron to go in while he grabs his hoodie and pulls it over his head. They get under the covers immediately, cuddling up against each other.
Ewron lays on his back with an arm out, Nexe laying on it cuddled up against him like a cute dog. Ewron giggles and looks over to him, turning over and draping his other arm on him.
Ewron might’ve failed an exam or two, but he definitely got rewarded today.
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In the morning, though mind hazy, Ewron can hear Multi and Graf snickering and the click of a picture being taken.
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