Chapter 2 (Yukine)

The last bell rang for the day and class was over. Everyone rushed out of the classroom as fast as they could when the bell went. It was after school and everyone wanted to get out! It’s bad enough it’s a boarding school where we’re stuck here most of the time but when you're in a prestigious high school you’ve got things to do. Most people want to rush over to their club activities immediately or students have plans to go somewhere. The hallways settle down a little after a few minutes and it finally seems safe enough to go down the stairs. I headed down the stairs after getting some of the important stuff out of my locker. Normally I’d be heading to swim practice since it’s a Tuesday but today I told the captain I’d be missing out because of my new roommate. Most of last year I didn’t have a roommate and I’ve gotta admit it got really boring and kinda lonely. Like yeah I’d hang with my friends when I could but when I was alone in my room it was so boring, it was also annoying when I’d sleep through my alarm on accident and no one could wake me up. Hopefully my roommate is an early riser or I’m going to be in so much shit this year like last year!

I was a few metres away from the dorms door and I pulled out my keys from my pocket. When I got there the door was already unlocked and slightly opened. I guessed my roommate had already moved his stuff into the room and forgot to close the door. I opened the door and entered the room. I saw a lanky boy who looked fairly taller than me lying on the, what used to be, empty bed reading something on his laptop. His face had a very toned down kind of goth makeup look but wasn’t too extravagant. His hair had a middle part and was wavy, blackish-brown that faded into a crimson red. His eyes were a deep ocean blue. He was wearing an oversized black and white striped sweater with it’s lines going horizontally and a pair of black jeggings with a small chain attached to the top of them. I’m not gonna lie, he looked kinda hot. The boy then looked up at me and smiled gently.

“Hi, I’m glad you finally got here! My name is Taj, Taj Norman!” He said very kindly and waved.

“Oh ah hi, my name is Yukine Reeves. I’m guessing you're my roommate?”

“Yep!”

“Cool. So have you finished unpacking everything?”

“Well I’ve finished unpacking most of it but I haven’t packed my clothes yet. I opened the wardrobe but your things were still scattered and I didn’t want to move them just in case,”

“Oh sorry about that. I was going to organise it last night but I guess I forgot about it. I’ll start organising the stuff now,”

“That’s fine dude, I get it,”

He carried on to read whatever he was reading on the laptop. I closed the door and placed my backpack at the end of my bed. I quickly grabbed the clothes on my bed and changed in the bathroom. Once I was finished I hanged my uniform and quickly hurried to the wardrobe to organise my things. I took all the clothes on his side out and chucked them on my bed.

“Hey I took everything out on your side so if you want you can start putting your clothes inside,”

“Oh yeah, thanks,”

He closed his laptop and dragged out a box from under his bed while I began to organise where I put my clothes. As he unpacked his clothing and into the wardrobe I realised he had a more punk style rather than goth or emo. His clothes were pretty dope but I wouldn’t dare to try and pull it off. I was done unpacking everything so I closed my side of the wardrobe and let him finish by himself because he seemed to like organising all his stuff in specific places, I can’t blame him, if I had that much accessories and different types of clothes I’d want to keep it organised as well.