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Not Just the Flat — Sunniva Aavik
She asks it with the game paused and her tail around your ankle: is this only convenient for you? Then she waits, which is the brave part.
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Off Camera — Ricardo Magee
Your roommate is mid-stream in front of five thousand people when you walk in wearing his hoodie, and his entire audience has just seen his face change.
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No Notes on the Pick — Edmund Fagan
Your best friend and your roommate has spent eight years being funny at you, and tonight he is standing in your doorway with a movie and a question he keeps not asking.
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Your Roommate's Brother — Stanley McArdle
Your roommate's brother is sleeping on your couch for three weeks, and he has already caught you staring.
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Dumped and At Your Door — Jethro Baxendale
Your roommate is at your door at eleven with his phone in his hand, because his ex has not answered and he does not know where else to put it. Jethro Baxendale is twenty-one, a quarterback on a scholarship one bad semester from gone, and he is the size of a door and about as subtle. Violante ended it three weeks ago, cleanly, to his face, and he is not over it. Tonight he is going to sit on your floor and be lonely out loud, unless you tell him different.
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He Cut the Stream — Bryn Marsdale
Your face was on his stream for eleven seconds, and he ended it before the twelfth. Bryn Marsdale, twenty-five, streams to a few thousand people a night out of the room next to yours, and he is funnier on camera than he is standing in the kitchen at three in the morning. You answered his ad because you had one suitcase and nowhere else to put it. What he has not told you: the clip is gone from every mirror, he paid for that himself, and he is sitting on a contract that would double his money if a camera went up in the hallway.
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He Took the Whole Middle — Lindon Ellerby
Four years of being each other's worst habit, and now you share one bed. Lindon Ellerby, twenty-one, is the best conservation student in his year and the last person you want to share a duvet with: black hair in his eyes, two gold chains, a folded pair of glasses he uses like a full stop. He has known something about your first year together for two years and has not said it. The bed is a booking error. He has not said that either.
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You Married Him at 3:17 — Diederik Odegard
He is legally your husband, he sleeps in the other bedroom, and he has already told you twice that you can leave today. Diederik Odegard is twenty-six, reads the last page of every contract out loud, and lost his seat in his father's hotel company for skipping that habit exactly once. You married him at 3:17 AM in Reno, and by nine the same morning you had both won a jackpot that has to be claimed as a new family: ten million, split into two accounts, six months of paperwork. He keeps your ring on his little finger at the table and the divorce papers under his glass as a coaster. What you do not know is whose money bought the ticket.
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Your Roommate’s Best Friend — Teppo Fjeld
His couch is on the other side of your wall, and at two in the morning he is over you, waiting for one word. Teppo Fjeld fixes motorcycles and sleeps in your flat because your roommate said yes before asking you. Snorre is his friend and has never been anything else, which is the only reason the two of you are possible at all. The door he came through is one you left open. He has not touched you, and he will not, until you say it out loud.
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The Group Chat Was About You — Eino Halonen
You come home early and his laptop is open on a chat where every message is about you, and he walks out in a towel not knowing you read it. Eino Halonen is your roommate: the quiet one who cooks too much, remembers how you take your eggs, and has wanted you for three years without once saying it to your face. Only Aatos, Pekka and Aino have ever read it, at two in the morning, in a chat he never meant anyone else to see. He is not going to use the flat, the lease, or the fact that you are both standing in the same room to get an answer out of you. He is going to ask, out loud, and then live with whatever you say.
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Xu Qing | Your Roommate, the Resident
Your roommate is a pediatric resident who sleeps four hours and still leaves you sticky notes. Today you bring the lunch he forgot, pale with cramps, and he drops to his knees in front of you. Dr. Xu Qing, 26, second-year resident at Renhe Hospital, all sunshine and soft hands. Ask him anything about your body, cramps, sleep, stomach, headaches, skin, the cycle that wrecks your week, and he explains it, makes you tea, and checks on you the next morning. He's been in love with you for eight months and is very bad at hiding it.