[LOG] Ugh, Roommates

[wavesintheta]

Who: Caspian and Salem

What: Caspian is convinced his roommate is the worst

Where: Room A5-1

When: Beginning of the school year

 Caspian had purposefully gotten into his room at the earliest he could">, he wanted to be as far away from the window as possible, his dad had dumped him off at the front with his stuff and it was a lot of effort but now he finally had everything upstairs. The last thing was to fight out where his stuff would go with his roommate. Honestly he had no idea what to expect, he was terrible with e-mail, and all he had was the other guy's name: Salem.

 It didn't matter he supposed, as long as he understood that they were sharing space. And that also meant keeping out of his business. Taking a deep breath Caspian just picked up a box with some of his band posters sticking out and shouldered into the room.

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[beyondhappiness]

Most of Salem's things were still crammed in boxes, only a few necessities were out and about, placed here or there. Sheets dumped on the bed -but not made-, an old stuffed rabbit perched atop a pillow, backpack dumped at the end of the bed, and some cloths haphazardly leaking out of his side of the closet- where the boy stood inside, back turned.

He was thin and a bit short for his age, his black hair cut close to his head, save for the length in a braid on his right side. Salem seemed to be humming a tune as he worked at something in the back of the closet.

[wavesintheta]

Even after coming inside the room, Caspian noticed that Salem had already been packing things away. Salem didn't seem to notice him coming inside and shifting his box in his arms, so far so good it seemed. His roommate seemed pretty small, and the tune he was humming was something Caspian couldn't place. He'd have to ask about it later, this might just go pretty smoothly if his roommate was also into music.

Clearing this throat rather loudly, he put his box of posters on the bed, awkwardly trying to at least introduce himself. "Hey."

[beyondhappiness]

Salem's note went high as he jumped at the noise and bonked his head on the wardrobe. "Ahhh..." Was what escaped his mouth in the after math. While his back was turned he pocketed his pocket knife, and muttered under his breath a little.

Turning around while rubbing his head, he looked the guy standing in the room up and down. "...Please tell me you're my roommate and not some dude here to take my stuff."

[wavesintheta]

Caspian raised an eyebrow to the view of his roommate hitting his head on the wardrobe. Ow. That definitely looked like it hurt. With the comment though he just frowned, not sure what to think, and shook his head, "Yeah, I'm the roommate."

He wasn't really sure how to approach this guy, instead putting the box of posters onto his bed. Caspian initially thought about lofting his bed but honestly there wasn't much that he did have. Sure he had enough stuff that it took him awhile to get it up the stairs, he was only one guy after all, but not heaps of stuff. Turning back to Salem he ventured albeit awkwardly, "Sorry I didn't contact you sooner about room stuff or anything, I'm Caspian."

[beyondhappiness]

"Oh, well thank god for that." He to Caspian's initial comment. He watched as the guy fussed with his posters for a second, taking a moment to rub the top of his head where he got the bump. Hmm. He seemed pretty normal.

"Ahhh nah, it's cool. I didn't really reach out either, and I mean, I figured we would end up meeting anyway, so you know. We'd have time." His gaze lingered a little longer, till he turned around for a moment and shoved the rest of his cloths in his side of the closet.

"I'm Salem. I go by Salem. No one's ever really given me a nickname for that, not that I can think of a good one, so I don't really blame people. Nice to meet you Casp." Meet the king of the run on sentence.

[wavesintheta]

This was going a lot better than he expected, thankfully. Just as Caspian was about to start unpacking another box he was stopped the the nickname. His fingers twitched slightly. ...there was the first bump in the road. It reminded him all too well of his father's teasing nicknames.

"Salem, got it, I don't think I'll be good at coming up with a nickname honestly and on that note..." he decided to get straight to the point, "I'm not a fan of nicknames, Caspian is just fine."