Chapter 1: a gays guide to surviving college

Rule number 1
keep your expectations low, and your priorities high.

Yuuri katsuki along with his best friend the psychology major, Phichit Chulanont were in the middle of a crisis.Their roommate assignment letters had just arrived the other day, and the two of them decided to hold it off till now to see the results.

so here they sit, in their favourite cafe, each holding a letter that held the very fate of their sophomore year. after all, having a shitty roommate can bring just about everything else down along with it.

For Their freshman year they got lucky, but this year all they could do was pray.
They each took several deep breaths, then braced themselves.

"Ready?" phichit breathed.

"1..."
"2.."
"3!"

Yuuri's breath hitched in his throat as they both simultaneously flipped the paper around.
And with the newfound information,
The hopeful glint in phichit's eyes melted away.

"oh,aw..' Phichit tried his best to sound collected, but they were both screaming on the inside.

"....Victor, Nikiforov?" Yuuri sounded out slowly.

"Sounds foreign." Phichit Suggested.
"I've got some guy named ....Seung Gil lee."

"Sounds Korean." Yuuri mimicked, the sarcasm prominent in his tone.

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"This year, is gonna suck.!" Phichit whined, dragging his suitcase behind him lazily.

"Well at least give your new roommate a chance. Stay optimistic."

"What if he's a homicidal maniac?!
Huh!? Where's the optimism in that?"

Yuuri rolled his eyes.
"You're being over dramatic."

Phichit replied with an offended gasp.
"who, me?
I'd NEVER."

Yuuri giggled as he looked down at his room number.
"Room 621... "

phichit also took a look down at his card.

"Oh cool! Your room is right beside mine.
I'm 623."

"I guess that's about as lucky as we're gonna get this year."

They pulled up to the doors, The two of them glanced at each other briefly, sending telepathic words of luck and good wishes back and forth, before pushing open the door to enter their new rooms.

as the door opened Yuuri's built up tension deflated when he discovered his flat mate wasn't present at the moment.
Turns out he got there first.
A shakey exhale of relief escaped his lips as he pulled his bags into the room. He decided to shut and lock the door behind him, so he'd have at least a 10 second heads up to pull himself together before his new flat mate walked in. rather than being entirely caught off guard.

The room was nice, there were two dressers pressed back to back against each other in the middle of the room acting almost as a divider.,
The two sides replicated each other almost perfectly.
There were two desks that had a lamp, drawers and some other things, two twin beds on either side with diluted orange and yellow patterned sheets., two fair sized windows., a small bathroom off to the right side of the room, and a partridge in a pear tree.

Yuuri took it upon himself to claim the left side, it was just a tic, he really just liked the left side of everything though he couldn't say why.

It was an unexplainable crutch of his.
He hoped his roommate wouldn't mind.

Just as Yuuri was finishing his unpacking he heard the familiar rustling of keys coming from right outside the door.

oh shit oh shit oh shit  what dose a logical person do in a situation such as this?

And of course the first thing that popped into his mind was "panic and hide'.

At that he heard the key click and he sprinted to the bathroom, closing and locking the door behind him immediately.

Rule number 2

Do not hide from your roommate in a bathroom, unless you're playing hide and seek...its probably not a good idea.

He pushed his ear up against the door, attempting to gather any information he could.

he could hear the door open and some one walking in, the walls were thin and certainly not sound proof. so much so that he could actually hear muffled breathing. he felt anxiety threaten his mind, as he did his best to muffle his own breathing just in case. Yuuri's heart was beating out of his chest yet he hadn't any idea why he was hiding in the first place.

he figured he could just come out and introduce himself to the man now rather than waiting, but of course he chickened out and stayed in the dark bathroom. knowing full well that he couldn't stay there forever despite really wanting too.

Though it had only been around 15 minutes it felt like an eternity in Yuuri's head.

Finally, he heard the sound of the door opening and shutting and the faint sound of breathing had faded away. he released a deep breath and unlocked the door, only to be greeted by a strange man  who he assumed to be his roommate.

"what? there was actually someone hiding in here?' The man chuckled, his eyes wide with amusement.

Yuuri felt his life flash before his eyes.

Authors note
Hello people of wattpad, and my dear readers.
Please excuse this random uncalled for pop up new story.
I've been working on this for the past few days as an experiment for my new account on Ao3.
I figured some of you may want to read it as well.
I'd love some feed back. Xoxox

-Coffee&desperation