August 22, 8:07 am
Light filters through the large window, giving the room a bright glow. The walls are painted a clean white, and the floors are made of a dark, polished mahogany wood. A small, twin sized bed is pushed up beside one wall, and a desk against the other. A few cardboard boxes full of Matthew's possessions are scattered around the room.
"Minimal, but still much nicer than the dorms I've been staying in the past two years," Matthew murmurs as he observes his new living space for the next year, "At least I get my own room."
He rolls his suitcase up against his bed and retracts the handle before falling backwards onto his mattress. He holds the small daisy up above his face and examines it.
"I wonder how this got in my hair? I'm sure it wasn't there before I fell asleep in the hallway earlier..." Matthew thinks, "...Could someone walking by have put it there?"
He gives up on that train of thought and switches his mind back over to the upcoming school year. He is due to go back to working at the college library in a couple of days, and school itself doesn't start for another week.
"I should probably unpack and organize everything while I still have the free time." He stands up and begins to tear open one of the boxes stacked on his desk.
Meanwhile, Lukas is exploring the rest of the apartment. He hasn't actually seen it in person yet, just pictures on that listing website.
It's a nice place, consisting of an entry hall where they can place their shoes and hang their coats, an empty living room, two bathrooms, and a kitchen already full of boxes labeled "Kitchen Supplies". He assumes that it is mostly Lovino's stuff since the other had mentioned he cooked a lot. However, Lovino isn't due to show up for another couple of days, so Lukas leaves that stuff alone for now.
He finally decides to enter his own room. There is a hallway branching off from the living room that leads to the four bedrooms, and his is the first door on the left.
His bedroom is very sparse. In place of a bed, he has a queen sized mattress on the ground, and beside that is a bookshelf. All of his possessions are in his three suitcases that are haphazardly leaning against the wall.
His lack of items is due to the fact that most of his money is going towards the rent of this place (and college). However, if he has to pick between a shitty apartment and nice furniture, and a nice apartment and shitty furniture, he'd definitely pick the latter, just as he had.
Plus, his room even has a small balcony.
Lukas glances over to his suitcases and figures it's about time to start unpacking.
4:23 pm
Lukas likes Matthew. Likes, as in, the other seems like a nice person. The other seems to be the ideal roommate: quiet and polite (Lukas is unsure yet of whether or not Matthew is a tidy person, it's been too short of a time to know that yet). Oddly enough, Matthew had seemed much more talkative in the group chat. His real-life persona is definitely a surprise to Lukas. However, he wants to get to know his roommates so they can hopefully avoid any unnecessary drama. Which is why the Norwegian is standing outside of Matthew's bedroom door and tapping three light knocks onto the wood.
He hears muffled footsteps coming closer on the other side of the door, and then it quietly creaks open.
"Yes?" Matthew asks.
"Would you like to come grocery shopping with me?"
A/N: I'm trying something different, writing shorter chapters. I always try to write super long chapters and then I just never really end up liking them, so that's why chapters will be short. Also I'm trying writing in present tense. I don't do this that often so sorry if I write in past tense at the wrong moments. This story is going to be slow in the beginning (in terms of plot and updating, if I do continue updating. School just started and I signed up for really difficult classes like an idiot so 99% of my time will now be taken up by school), so yeah!
