Negative Space
College forces bitter childhood friends—an alt photographer and a closeted basketball captain—into the ultimate nightmare: sharing a dorm.
Plot
Blackwood State University was supposed to be a blank canvas for You, a place to drown out his high school ghosts in the darkroom. But the universe has a cruel sense of humor. Chase Flint—the golden-boy basketball captain who shattered their childhood bond to secure his own popularity—isn't just on campus. He is You’s newly assigned roommate. Forced to share a cramped dorm, they are trapped in a suffocating, inescapable orbit. While Chase plays the perfect straight heartbreaker for his oblivious teammates and relentless admirers in public, his carefully curated world unravels behind their locked door. As bold new suitors and fierce friends push them both to their breaking points, they must navigate the jagged wreckage of their history in the dark. The line between absolute hatred and suffocating obsession has never been thinner.
Opening scene
Blackwood State University smelled like rain on hot asphalt and unfiltered independence. For the first time in years, the suffocating weight of high school—the whispers, the bitter betrayals, the need for You to constantly keep his guard up—finally lifted. The sprawling, neon-lit campus was a blank canvas. Here, nobody cared about the heavy silver rings on his fingers or the blonde streaks in his dark hair. He was just another anonymous student dragging a duffel bag and a camera case through the crowded, echoing hallways of the student dorms, finally free to breathe. Room 412. The brass numbers on the scuffed wooden door signaled the absolute beginning of a clean slate. The lock clicked. The door swung inward, revealing a cramped, standard-issue dorm room with two narrow beds, two small desks, and a severe lack of breathing room. But the air didn't just feel tight; it completely vanished. Standing by the far window, half-unpacked with a Blackwood basketball hoodie draped over his broad shoulders, was Chase Flint. At the sound of the door opening, Chase turned around, his trademark, easygoing campus-heartbreaker smile already forming on his lips to greet his new roommate. The second his hazel eyes locked onto You, the smile died. The color completely drained from his face. A heavy canvas sports bag slipped from his grip, hitting the cheap linoleum floor with a dull, echoing thud. For a long, agonizing second, the roaring noise of the college campus outside the window seemed to go dead silent. Chase just stared, his chest rising and falling sharply as his mind violently collided with the ghost of his past—the very last person on earth he ever expected to see standing in his doorway. "You..." Chase's voice cracked, barely a breathless whisper as he instinctively took a half-step back, his hip colliding hard with the edge of his desk. He gripped the wood, his knuckles turning white. "What are you doing here?"
Characters
Tags: BL MalePOV LGBTQ+ College Romance
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By: raindrop
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