The cold of winter, added to by winds of pure ice, dragged across Riku's exposed skin as he smoked outside his dorm. There was a rule that said you had to be twenty feet away from the building, but hell if Riku was going to freeze his balls off following stupid rules. His back was leaned firmly against the brick wall by the door, one foot pressed against the foundation. The silver-haired freshman heard the door open next to him, and out of the building slunked his towheaded dormmate and boyfriend.

"Damnit, Riku. If you don't get killed from smoking the cold will take you."

Riku chuckled and took a drag. "Smoker problems. Where you headed?"

"Dining hall. I'm hungry."

Riku shrugged and followed the kid. Roxas and Riku had been friends, or a little more than that, when they moved in to the University, but only after did they become what they called official. While they enjoyed being together before school, going off to college was the driving factor between their relationship.

The cafeteria was rather small, and didn't have much for food, but was almost always open. Roxas picked up a tray and walked directly toward the foreign food bar. There was usually some different foreign food being served, and that day had found brought them sushi, Roxas's favorite by a mile. Riku, being the more picky eater, slunked around the cafeteria for a while before settling on pizza. The Foreign bar usually had quite a line, so Riku bought his pizza and sat at a table in the corner, awaiting his boyfriend's arrival.

Almost out of nowhere Sora slid into one of the three unused chairs at the table. Sora was a PSEO student, which meant he was about a year younger than Riku and Roxas, and had been accepted into the University late. At first Riku wasn't too happy with being put into a room with someone he didn't know, possibly because he didn't want to have to put up with another guy being around his boyfriend too much, but Sora more than made up for the inconvenience. Sora was an amazing cook, and more than once made the three of them dinner in the wok that he had illegally snuck into the dorm room, along with his larger-than-allowed refrigerator and (much to Riku's surprise) a three-foot-tall hookah.

Riku was rather pleased that Sora wasn't as straight edge as he came off as, and was even more pleased that Sora had no problems with Roxas's and his relationship. In fact, it was he that proposed the idea that Roxas and Riku push their beds together and get a larger mattress cover, and make their smaller beds into one larger one, much more suitable for the couple.

Riku didn't want to admit to himself that the brunette was completely adorable, and wanted to admit to himself even less that the kid gave him a lurching feeling in his abdomen, but that didn't stop him from socializing with Sora.

"Let me guess. Roxas, Sushi bar."

Riku nodded, and uncapped his bottle of Sprite. After a sip he looked across the room for his boyfriend. He spotted the spiked hairdo finally at the forefront of the sushi line, making his order. Sora took a large gulp of Gatorade beside him. "Did you go to psych today?" the he asked.

Sora shook his head. "Slept through it. You?"

"Decided I wanted breakfast more. Went to Denny's with Roxas."

Sora nodded. "Cool. Then you got the paper done?"

Riku took another sip of his soda. "Got a page and a half to go."

Roxas slid into the seat next to Riku and set down his tray, before him were ten california rolls and some sauce that Riku couldn't identify. "They were out of shrimp, the bastards."

Sora giggled into his pizza. Riku huffed and took a bite of his own.

"They're always out of something when they do sushi," Sora supplied, retrieving his ecig from his pocket and taking a drag.

Riku's phone buzzed in his pocket. He pulled it out and saw he had a text from Roxas.

Roxas: Hey. i gotta talk to you later. let's go to our place when soras in class tonight.

Riku smiled fondly at the memory of their dates under the bridge by campus. It was an old covered bridge for a train, but the rail was no longer in use and the place was abandoned. Some previous students had set up a makeshift wall with some plywood on one side, so it was blocked from the wind. Roxas and Riku had been working on putting up the other walls, and now they had a nice little shack that they could go to. It had a few chairs, a table, and more recently working power they used to power a portable heater.

A few hours brought the couple to their little place under the bridge, sitting next to each other on a loveseat they had found on the side of a street.

"What's up, hon? Why couldn't we have talked in our room?"

"Because this is really important, and I didn't want any chance of Sora walking in on us."

Riku was mildly confused, but he just leaned into his boyfriend's shoulder and held his hand. "So, what is it?"

"Well, it's about Sora, actually…"

"What about him?"

"Well, he's really cute, and…" Sora reached into his bag and retrieved a handful of papers. Riku scanned it over; it was an article on polyamorous relationships.

Riku's first reaction was to feel insulted. Wasn't he enough for his boyfriend? Was there really something terribly wrong with the situation? But then he thought it over. There was a chance that Riku himself had been feeling things for Sora that may not have been in the domain of the platonic.

"You've thought about this, Roxas?"

"Please don't be mad, we don't have to. I'm perfectly happy with just you, but I thought…"

Roxas went from fidgety from scared to sad, and it nearly broke Riku's heart. He hugged his boyfriend and kissed him on the cheek.

"I'm not mad. In fact, I kind of want to give it a try."

Roxas lit up like a birthday cake. "Really?"

"You have feelings for Sora, right?" Roxas nodded, and Riku continued. "I think I may as well, but we'll have to be careful."

Roxas leaned in and kissed Riku on the lips sweetly. "I love you, babe."

Riku returned the kiss, then backed up and rubbed his nose against the kid's. "Love you too."