Roommate Romance

Chapter 4

I woke up earlier than Toma so we can seperately go to school on our own. I bet it pretty much upsets him that he won't be able to go there with me. He's pretty much used with going to school with me, however, that won't be happening today.

I just hope things go well for him.

"…huh. Something is different." My seatmate Xia said.

"Nothing new out of the ordinary." I told her as I sat next to her.

"No, no. There's definitely something different with you today." Then her eyes gazed on the person who entered class. We both saw Toma coming in alone.

There our eyes met, he smiles a little at me then goes to his seat without a worry. Xia then realized what she saw different in her perspective. "That's it! You haven't gone to school with your boyfriend!"

"What!?--I don't have a boyfriend! I'm a guy, I'm not gay!" Seriously, this girl is annoying. She just giggles as I glared at her.

"Ahh yeah, I forgot about that. But Toma is your friend right? I always used to see you guys together here at school most of the time."

"Well not anymore."

"Why? Did you guys break up or something?"

Again, I glared at her. "I just told you, I'm not in that kind of relationship with him."

"Hahaha! Right. But is it alright that you guys are seperate like this?"

"It's not like we're always together, we have seperate lives."

"Hmmm, is that right?"

My eyes rolled at this girl, the moment she opens her mouth. She spat nothing but annoying nonsense. "…Still, I hope I see you guys hanging out together again."

"Why do you care so much about me and Toma anyway?"

Her grin scared me. "I just like seeing you guys together, you remind me of an 'uke and seme' relationships."

"And what does that mean?"

"Oh uhh, oh! The professor is already here, let's not get distracted too much." She was able to dodge my question when the prof came, though I lost interest in knowing what she meant. I bet it'll be something weird again.

Xia is weird. As much as I want to avoid her, fate seems to be harsh on me for I've been partnered up with her for a research paper, which will take about two months to finish. "Great, I'm stuck with you for a month." I said.

"Hey, It's not like I wanted this to happen either." She pouts and looked at me sharply.

"Whatever, let's just get things done before the deadline. It'll be great if we finish it way more earlier." So that I won't have to spend time with you so much.

"Hmph, you're such a grumpy rude jerk. No wonder you don't have much friends."

"H-Hey! I got friends!" I told her.

"Yeah right, you had one and you just pushed him out of your life." There I realized she was talking about Toma. "If you'll excuse me, I'll be off to my next subject." She said and left.

Ah, the current subject is over. When I was about to get out of class, I was going to call out to Toma. But before I could do so, I almost forgot that we were both supposed to be living seperate lives for three whole months.

Then after seeing Toma happily talking to other people made me… smile a bit.

"I guess he's doing well without me." I mumbled to myself, before leaving the classroom.

***

It's been a week now since I started to seperate myself from Toma. These past few days were peaceful, but it was kind of lonely for some reason. It's not that I wasn't talking to other people to completely isolate myself… maybe I was also just used to have Toma with me.

We actually see each other since we share the same room at the dorm, but we both made great effort to keep things in minimal, like our talks and other stuff. Also, I noticed that Toma found something for himself to be indulged in, so every seven at night he would go out and do whatever he got himself into.

"Hey, I'll be late again tonight. So don't lock the door on me." He often tells me that whenever he's going out.

"Just get the spare keys in the drawer." I told him while reading a book for my socialist class.

"I can't, I might lose them." Ah, it's in his nature to be careless with every small thing he possess.

"Whatever. I'll just leave the door unlocked."

"Thanks! See 'ya later." And just like that, he left.

I was kinda curious what he was actually doing these past few nights. Still I'll know the reason eventually, no need to ask Toma about it.

When I was finally done with reading, I checked the time and figured that I still have a few hours until my bedtime. I'd like to play the video games I brought but its for two players… "ugh, nevermind." I thought and rested on Toma's bed.

Laying down on his bed, I can thoroughly smell his stench--well, not that it smells bad, it's kind of a sweet scent. Like marshmallows and a hint of lemon. Before I knew it, the scent cast me to sleep.

"…ji? Yuji?"

My mind awaken as I heard a voice, that's probably Toma. I was about to open my eyes and get out of his bed until he continued to speak.

"Heh… it's nice seeing you sleep peacefully."

…

"I still wonder why you want me out of your sight. I thought we're like inseperable brothers, man."

He paused for a minute and continued on.

"Well, I get it. Some did say I'm annoying and nosy, so… so maybe that's why you pushed me away."

What?… is that how he interpreted what I said?

"I understand that, so I won't ever bother you again, even if the three months is over. But… you're still my bestfriend, you got that?"

This guy…

"I'll let you have my bed for the night. Be thankful I didn't disturbed you in your sleep, hehe. Good night." After letting him climb on the ladder to sleep on the top bed, my eyes opened and stares at the wall.

Toma. That i***t is such a softie. To think that he understood it that way, I think I should fix this misunderstanding but then again… wouldn't it embarass him if I told him I was awake while he was talking to me like that?

Despite things are going like this, I felt a little happy to know how he feels about this. Toma really cares about me.