move-in day
Morning.first day of semester
Taehyung stands outside the dorm door, holding his suitcase, oversized hoodie sleeves covering his hands. He unlocks the door and steps in.
taehyung
(soft gasp) Woah,so this is home now?
The room is already half-decorated. Posters of Iron Man, a keyboard stand, and a stack of banana milk cartons sit on the shelf. In the corner, a boy sits cross-legged on the bed, earbuds in, eyes closed.
The boy blinks, pulls one earbud out, and looks up.
jungkook
You’re my roommate?
taehyung
If this is Room 304… then yeah.
jungkook
Okay.
(pause)
You’re taller than I imagined.
taehyung
Imagined? You imagined me?
jungkook
(shrugging)I saw your name on the board. Thought you’d be short and angry. You're tall and… annoying.
taehyung
(throws his hoodie on the chair) Perfect. Roommate bonding begins with insults.
Later – Taehyung finishes unpacking, hanging up random Polaroids and an art sketch of a sleeping cat. Jungkook watches him silently from across the room.
jungkook
You move around like a movie.
(pause)
It’s loud.
taehyung
You’re the kind of guy who stares at a sunset and tells it to lower its brightness, huh?
jungkook
(turns away, hiding a smile) No comment.
Same time – Room 307. Just a few doors away. Jimin is on top of his bed, glaring at the wall. Yoongi sits at his desk, completely ignoring him.
jimin
You took my towel again.
yoongi
It was soft. I didn’t read the tag. Sue me.
jimin
You live for annoying me, don’t you?
yoongi
It’s my only joy in life.
Besides composing.
jimin
(mutter) Why do you have to be hot and emotionally unavailable?
jimin
I said stop using my towel!
author-nim~
How was this starting?
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