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was the middle of the night. Completely dark out, and..unfortunately, other students across the hall being too loud for Two Time’s liking. Usually, they would like the night.
At night, the sun was gone, and they wouldn’t get blinded every time they even stepped foot outside. That preference almost persuaded them to apply for lectures early in the morning, but then they quickly realized that was a stupid idea, because no one would willingly wake up at 6-7 in the morning.
Anyways, it was almost the dead of night. And to Two Time’s slight pleasure, or misfortune (they could never tell if they got along with her or not) they hadn’t seen their roommate, Scarlet, since sunset.
They just hoped that she wasn’t going to come back to the room after doing stupid things like.. anything. Almost everything she did was stupid in their eyes. One of those things being even considering being friends with such loud people... For example Chance- she shouldn’t even consider giving him a-... chance.
Stupid ass name.
Two Time also hoped that she was safe, obviously. Yeah, they didn’t really care about her, but they did if..whatever.
Before they could finish their thought process, or convince themsleves that they didn’t care about Scarlet, the very girl stumbled into their shared room, very obviously drunk.
...Was she serious.
Getting drunk at a college party was almost about one of the stupidest things anyone could do.
She seemed to be fine though. Not crying or seeming as if she was uncomfortable by something someone did.
But they knew she could probably protect herself...even while like this.
“Eheheh.. Two Timee! Y-..Ya come here often?” Idiot.
Scarlet very evidently found her own joke funny, as she bursted into giggles moments later. Which, it was not. Her humor was terrible. Either if she was drunk or not, it always sucked.
Two Time watched as their dormmate walked across the floor, almost tripping, and then falling over on her bed, breathing a sigh of relief before giggling again for a moment.
She turned over to look at Two Time, who was glaring at her on the couch.
“You’re stupid y’know. Who gets drunk at a college party..? You. Because you’re stu-”
“Youu’rre...real pretty-..kyehe..!” Scarlet said, cutting them off with a drunken smile and giggle. That got Two Time to pause.
Their inital thought was just that Scarlet was saying things she wouldn’t usually say because she’s drunk, and that none of it meant anything but...
That look in her eyes.
It said; ‘a hopeless idiot in love with someone who she thinks hates her.’ So full of devotion, and fondness.. They had to look away. Because who just-..???? (I CRINGED SO HARD WRITING THIS IT CAUSED ME PHYSICAL PAIN AUGHHGRUGHA)
Even though thoughts clouded Two Time’s brain with reasonable responses, they couldn’t help but stare at the girl before looking away, a hint of a blush on their cheeks.
“..Go to sleep. We have lectures in the morning, and you’re gonna be hung over as hell.” They sighed out,turning away from her then looking at the ground as they muttered loud enough for Scarlet to hear.
She paused for a moment before- “Okay-!” Then, she turned over on the bed, facing the wall before falling alseep very quickly. Huh. Easier than they had expected.
From the time they were kinda forced to spend together, Two Time had found out that it was hard for Scarlet to fall asleep. Always jumping at the slightest noises, staying up, texting (who tf is she texting at 2 am, no one needs to be up that late) or just getting lost in her thoughts, blankly staring at the door.
Therefore, it was quite a surprise that she just...fell asleep so quickly. Then again, she was drunk so..
Suddenly, a knock from the door jolted Two Time out of their thoughts and they sucked in air through their teeth, glancing over to Scarlet to make sure she wasn’t awoken by the noise. Luckily, she was still asleep.
With a sigh, Two Time went over to open the door, and found none other than..Noli.
They instantly shut the door in his face. Noli was annoying as is- and they just prayed to the Spawn that he didn’t bring his boyfrien-
“0h c’m0nnn..! M3 4nd 7 just w4nn4 s33 1f Sc4rl3t 1s h3r3!” Even though they could barely understand him, Two Time could make sense that him and 007n7 wanted to hang out with Scarlet..which they had been doing for the last couple of nights.
When they did hang out, Scarlet always came back at 1 or 2 in the morning, and was always late to her lectures the next day, causing her to stay up later to study, which kept Two Time awake.
So, no, they weren’t very fond of the two.
“She’s not here.” They said through the closed door, glancing at Scarlet’s sleeping form before pinching the bridge of their nose in anoyance.
A groan came from the other side of the door before another voice. “Whaaatt?? Tw-..Two T-? ...Dude, we just wanna see our best friend! She always brings the life to the party y’know!” Did he have to be so damn loud..? And be so utterly obvious he forgot their name?
As if Two Time would wake Scarlet up just for her to hang out with her too loud friends who suck, and make her lose sleep/stay up.“Like I just said, Scarlet is not here.”
They were looking out for her! Like a normal rommate would-! It wasn’t unusual for anything. At All.
But quickly, their spiraling thoughts were broken. “Booo! Whatever, ma-..n? Whatever dude, you’re too overprotective of her. Like your her boyfr- partner or...something.” ...They weren’t dealing with this tonight. “Not her partner. And she’s not my girlfriend. Goodnight, 007n7, and Noli.”
The mumbling and groans slowly faded as the two got further down the hallway and Two Time out a sigh of relief. Finally..
Walking over to sit on their own bed, which was on the opposite side of the room from Scarlet’s, they found themselves muttering. “Stupid idiots... She always comes back exhausted from them, and they accuse us of dating just for caring about her-?”
..Stupid.
Forcing themselves to look at the wall instead of on the right side of the room, they gripped the sheets tightly.
The two sucked.
They were always too loud, too lazy, too time-consuming, and just...annoying. But..if it made her happy-
NOPE.
Immediately after even beginning that thought, Two Time shoved their face in the pillow, and evened out their breathing, eventually forcing themselves to fall asleep.
Great strategy of avoding your problems Two Time 🥹