My straight roommate kissed me and left me confused.
It was a typical Friday night in our cramped four-man suite at Westview University—Kevin snoring like a chainsaw on the top bunk, Adam sprawled across his bed with headphones blasting some indie band, and Rick, as always, sitting silently by the window, his sharp jawline catching the moonlight like he was posing for a damn magazine. Me? I was just Colin, the guy who didn’t belong in this mess of personalities, hunched over my laptop, pretending to care about a philosophy paper due next week.
I didn’t look up when Rick shifted in his seat. He’d been weirdly quiet all day—quieter than usual, which was saying something for a guy who’d earned the nickname “Ice Prince” around campus. Basketball star, straight-A student, and the poster boy for every straight guy stereotype you could imagine. I’d always figured he was just too cool to bother with us mere mortals. But tonight, something felt off. I couldn’t put my finger on it, and frankly, I didn’t want to. Rick was Rick. Untouchable. Unreadable. And definitely not my problem.
Until he mumbled my name.
“Colin.”
It was soft, barely audible over Kevin’s snoring, but it hit me like a slap. I froze, my fingers hovering over the keyboard, my heart doing a weird little stutter. I glanced up, expecting to see him staring at me with those icy blue eyes, but no—his head was tilted back against the wall, eyes closed, chest rising and falling in slow, even breaths. Asleep. He was asleep.
“What the hell?” I muttered under my breath, shoving my laptop aside. The screen’s glow cast long shadows across the room, turning the pile of textbooks on my desk into a jagged silhouette. I rubbed my eyes, convincing myself I’d imagined it. People talk in their sleep all the time, right? It didn’t mean anything. Still, my skin prickled, and I couldn’t shake the feeling that his voice had lingered in the air, low and husky, like he’d meant to say it.
I should’ve let it go. Should’ve crawled into bed and forgotten about it. But then Kevin snorted awake, rolling over with a groan. “Dude, did Rick just say something?” he mumbled, his voice thick with sleep.
I tensed. “Uh, maybe? I don’t know. He’s out cold.”
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