"This is all Alfred's fault." Matthew thinks as he tiredly swipes his key card for the fifteenth time and only receives another red light and clipped 'bzzzt' from the lock.
Currently it is 5am and he wants nothing more than to drag his stuff into his new apartment and take a long nap. Twelve hours on a plane really wears a person out.
Of course, back to his original thought, he wouldn't even be traveling so far in the first place if it weren't for Alfred. Leave it to his brother to beg him to attend the same college together and then drop out.
Matthew wasn't one to drop out, however, so he continued going to the college on the opposite side of the world. Fast forward three years and here he is, throwing his key card on the ground and sliding down against the wall.
He pulls his knees against his chest and buries his head in his arms to contemplate for a little bit.
"Should I go down to the front desk to see if I can get a new key card?" Matthew wonders, but immediately dismisses that thought as soon as he remembers that the elevator is undergoing 'maintenance' and it was hard enough climbing up those eleven flights of stairs the first time. No, instead he would wait for one of his new roommates to show up. He is the first one to arrive at the apartment, but if he remembers correctly, one of them (he thinks his name is, Lukas?) is planning on showing up in a couple of hours.
"Maybe I'll just take a short nap right here. The worst that could happen is my suitcase gets stolen, but this is a pretty safe building and most of my stuff's been moved into the apartment already anyways." Matthew thinks as his eyes begin to droop, exhaustion from being awake for the past twenty or so hours catching up with him.
And with that, the weary college student falls asleep.
'SLAM'
Matthew is startled awake at the sound of a door slamming, and a blonde guy dragging three heavy looking suitcases comes into view, looking equally as tired as Matthew had felt a few hours ago. "He must've just come from the stairwell." Matthew observes.
The other boy seems to finally see him sitting against the wall as he stops in front of the door, sparing him an emotionless glance.
Matthew quickly stands up to introduce himself, "Ah, h-hello, I'm Matthew... You must be Lukas?" He puts on what he hopes to be a polite smile.
Lukas nods and gives a quiet "Yes" before he digs into his pants pocket and pulls out a key card similar to Matthew's. Hopefully his actually works.
Lukas swipes the card and then there's a green light flashing and the click of the lock opening. Lukas pushes open the door and Matthew wonders for a second if the other is going to ask why he's out here.
And while he (thankfully) doesn't do that, Lukas does send a glance at Matthew again and gestures to his hair, "That's a nice flower." Lukas comments before dragging himself and his suitcases inside, accidentally hitting them on the door frame a couple of times.
"Flower?" Matthew whispers, reaching up to his hair and finding that a flower had indeed been tucked behind his ear. A small red daisy. Matthew stares at it in confusion for a second before realizing the door is quickly closing.
He stops it with his foot and grabs his own suitcase, and heads inside himself.
A/N: What am I doing. Idk if I'll continue this or not, I just felt like writing something. Thanks for reading! (;^_^)