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ITrapped was in his luxury car waiting for his friend to leave the house and enter.
Christmas vacation just finished. So all students must return to their bedrooms and prepare themself for classes.
After another 5 minutes Chance appeared with his bags. Once the driver started to go to their college, Chance started to yap and yap. It was 7 AM and ITrapped was already questioning why he was friends with that gambler. ITrapped didn't listen to almost all the conversation until Chance asked him about those cookies.
iTrapped looked at the cookies and then to his friend.
"From my family" He said. Nothing and nothing less, just the exact words to be heard and known.
"Can I have one?" Chance asked as he was ready to get one but ITrapped stopped him and with a small angry voice said that anyone except him can have those cookies.
Chance only rolled his eyes and let a dramatic speech of why ITrapped needed to let him one cookie.
Speech that iTrapped didn't care.
. . . :)
After both of them arrived they went where everyone was talking and hanging out. All the students and teachers were there talking about what they did on their vacations.
iTrapped was sitting on a bench while Chance was yapping with his friends: Shedlesky and Guest 1337.
"HEY!" A person shouted out. ITrapped looked from where the voice came from and he was Noob, his cousin. Noob went to ITrapped while he was holding hands with Guest 666.
"What do you want?" ITrapped said directly, yes, he was a student with good manners but Noob was family and Guest 666 almost family because he was with Noob.
"So rude! But, anyways... I just came to ask if you saw the new list of sharing rooms! And... Tadaaaa!" Noob gave iTrapped the list and pointed where it said that Noob and Guest 666 would share a room. "Isn't that awesome?! Now we can spend all night gossiping and not need to worry about getting caught at the halls late at night". Noob hugged Guest 666 arm as he smiled while Guest 666 pat Noob's head like a sign of affection. The couple was happy because they have been caught a LOT of times during high school.
ITrapped just congratulated them. ITrapped was almost sure that he was going to share a room with Chance because a lot of people knew they were best friends (and because in all high school years they shared) but surprisingly this year Chance was sharing a room with a boy named Taph.
So the question was, who was the one that will share a room with ITrapped?
Chance appears from nowhere. "Hi guys!" Because of the way he appears, Noob jumps in surprise. "Ups! Sorry dude" Then he looked to his best friend. "Why is he staring at the paper?" He asked while pointing to ITrapped.
"Because he isn't going to share a room with you this year" Guest 666 was the one who talked now.
"WHAT?! With whom I'm going to stay talking all night?" Chance said out loud and made a dramatic pose. Noob told Chance that he was going to share with Taph... a mute student but good listener.
Once again, the four students looked at the paper searching for iTrapped name. The person who found it was Noob "Omg! Your sharing with someone named Elliot"
ITrapped mind didn't really remember persons name, he only remembered the ones that are useful. "Who's Elliot?-" And by pure coincidence some bunch of people started running towards a person that just entered.
"ELLIOT!!!" "HIIII HOW ARE YOU?" "You look good!" "So long not seeing you boy!" "How's your family business?" "What gifts did you get? I'm sure you got good ones"
Chance, ITrapped and Noob were surprised and shocked. This boy called Elliot was kinda famous, but, why? Guest 666 let out a sigh and looked at them "so you guys really don't know Elliot, huh?" The three looked to each other and then to Guest 666. "Wait a second" and with just a blink of an eye Guest 666 was with Elliot next to him.
Nobody said anything. The three looked at Elliot and Elliot looked at them, then Elliot smiled with his classic angelic smile. "Hi! I'm Elliot it's nice to meet all of you" As ITrapped ears hear Elliot's voice his heart started racing but his cold pose stayed in place. ITrapped knew a lot of people because he was always around people but none of them had such an energetic but soft voice like Elliot.
Then iTrapped started to scan Elliot: Blonde hair but looked more lighter than his, both of them had their hair tied but while he had a low ponytail Elliot had a bun with some star clips. Elliot's eyes were like the color of honey while his eyes were blue cold ice.
"I'm Chance" "You guys know I'm Guest 666" "I'm Noob and this is my cousin Itra-"
"I'm ITrapped..." And all of them went silent. Noob was surprised while everyone else was shocked, Elliot was the only one who didn't understand why the shock.
ITrapped was that kind of person with a BIG ego and liked when people introduced him with such good compliments. But in this case he introduced himself like he was a normal person and not the most narcissistic person in the college.
"Okay..." Guest 666 said. He looked to his group of friends and then to Elliot. "Well, this is the group I told you about and Noob is my-"
"Your boyfriend! Both of you make a cute couple" Elliot interrupted and said with a smile. "Guest 666 talks very good about you" Noob and Guest 666 blushed at Elliot's comment while Chance laughed.
"Oooh, we will be such good friends because I know when someone is cool" Chance went to Elliot and put both hands on his shoulders.
They all talked while iTrapped only gaze at them. At first impressions he didn't really like the people who have so much energy like Elliot, Noob was an exception (family) and Chance was the child of a good business and both family members were very good friends.
Not even 10 minutes after someone came running and hugged from behind Elliot. "Hello Eli!" A girl shouted.
"Oh- Eunoia your hugging too strong-" Elliot replied and as he said the girl quickly pulled away.
"I'm so sorry... I was just too excited to spend another year with you! Me and Mafioso bought some new things that you should try with us" When Eunoia turned around Mafioso was already with a purple box, she then got it and gave it to Elliot. "I hope you like the matching!"
The blonde boy with hazel eyes opened the box and there was a match of: Strawberry, green and purple grapes.
"Looks good for the future parties" He then took three bracelets. He put on his (strawberry), then gave Eunoia the one with green grapes and Mafioso the one with purple grapes.
Mafioso was silent but for someone who knows him, knows when he's happy or not, Eunoia and Elliot knew that the match was chosen by Mafioso because Eunoia was very indecisive, that makes Mafioso show a very small smile of satisfaction.
And... for someone like iTrapped a very calculated person saw that, saw how Mafioso was 'shy' to Elliot, saw how everyone liked Elliot and that made iTrapped suspicious why people liked such a person with so much energy. (The college was well known because of the rich students that are children of big companies or prologue well known in the world).
At that thought iTrapped now was thinking, is the college was for children of rich people... what's Elliot family doing? He liked to be very direct about his questions but right now he didn't feel like he was going to question Elliot.
. . . :)
Almost bed time, Elliot and iTrapped were staring at each other. Elliot was surprised and iTrapped kinda annoyed.
The room(apartment) that they were going to share had a room for both, a bathroom, a small living room with a little kitchen and a balcony. The room had two beds at each side next to the wall, both had a closet and a desk, in the middle of the room there was a window that looked to the campus.
Elliot let out a sigh and wanting to share a moment of bonding with iTrapped he left his suitcase on the floor and went to him close enough for being heard and seen but far enough for not invading the personal space of iTrapped.
"Sooooo, what bed do you prefer?" The boy with hazel eyes asked with a smile and soft voice.
iTrapped didn't know why but he hated that smile, the smile looked so artificial, so unreal... for someone like Elliot.
"I will choose the left side" And with that sentence the room went quiet again.
The silence was too loud, too much for them but anyways both of them rather do anything else than just trying to talk and make things more awkward.
1/6 months
It's only been 1 month and ITrapped was already tired with his roommate. Elliot always was eating his food and only Telamon knows why!
It was a Sunday night, 4 AM when ITrapped woke up. He was in his bed so when he turned around and didn't see a sleepy Elliot he already knew why. He got up with a pillow on his hands and quietly walked to the kitchen.
There was the little food thief, there was Elliot eating ITrapped's cookies from Christmas.
In less than a minute there was a pillow fighting in the kitchen. The both were fighting but trying to be silent because if they made a lot of noise people would complain about it.
After fighting, iTrapped pinned Elliot to the floor. He was really pissed. "Who gave you permission to eat my food?" The demanding tone from iTrapped voice made Elliot start apologizing and saying that he really didn't know and that he was sleepy.
After that day the discussion and fighting over the food and stupid things started.
3/6 months
Elliot was studying some things about economic policy while iTrapped was getting ready to go with Chance.
ITrapped really didn't want to but his family wanted both kids bonding for future negotiations.
Both blondes had already adapted to each other with their presence but that didn't stop the fact that they still will fight over shit like who knows more or about the food.
6/6 months
Elliot noticed something about his roommate. Since they have been together for 6 months now, iTrapped started to buy more cookies like he was going to eat all of them. For a reason that made Elliot remember about her sister Mia, she used to buy a lot of sweet food during her period and rarely shared that food.
Anyways, it was Friday night at 5:50 AM. Elliot didn't really see in the dark but everytime he wanted a cookie casually he always got the same box since the first time he did by accident (it was really an accident).
He was not really a lover of sweet food because the cookies that ITrapped had were salty but at the same time sweet. Once he ate like 4 cookies he went to sleep thinking how to apologize in the morning. Because everytime that he gets a cookie he feels guilty but thinks 'Meh, it's a problem for me in the future me'.
Last day of first year of college!
And again it's Christmas holidays. After a year of Elliot and ITrapped fighting for small things, sharing the same room and being together for a year... Chance, Eunoia, Noob, Guest 666 and Mafioso knew that they would end up being friends because at the end of the day they spent a lot of time together.
ITrapped was packing all his stuff.
Elliot finished packing a day before so iTrapped was now alone in the room that they shared. He looked to the now empty bed and then to his side.
So many memories happen in the last half year he spent with Elliot, so many things he had learned, so many different ways to play...
iTrapped finished packing all his stuff. He went outside the building and bumped into someone by accident. He was about to yell at the person but then he saw a hand in front of him.
"Sorry Ice Princess! Didn't know you were still here" Said Elliot while helping iTrapped to stand up.
ITrapped ignored the nickname (he was now used to it) and looked to Elliot. "Same thing, I thought you were going out this morning." His voice was with a tone of annoyance.
"Yes but I wanted to do something first! You know, like you're the person that mostly had to support me all this crazy year!" Before iTrapped could say anything he felt arms around him. Elliot hugged iTrapped, but not the type of hug that he used on everyone, no, this was a soft and gentle hug the same hug that Elliot only used with his family. "I just wanted to say I'm sorry if I was a little dickhead... and I also apologize because of the cookies".
Both of them were in silence. Elliot didn't need an answer but ITrapped wanted to say something, anything but nothing came out from his mouth. He was shocked.
From the distance a little girl was shouting the name of his big brother, his dear brother Elliot.
Elliot pulled away and before he could go he stopped and looked to iTrapped saying 'Thanks for this year' and then he was not in ITrapped sight. At first ITrapped didn’t really bother to say anything else but something in him made him feel happy about this year.
… :)
It's been like half summer since ITrapped saw Elliot. As he already knows he didn’t want to think of that blonde boy but his best friend Chance only made things worse. Apparently Chance and Elliot became such close friends that both of them were still in contact… thanks to that ITrapped was now in his phone looking at Elliot’s profile Instagram.
There were the usual photos, like: Elliot with his friends, Elliot with his family, Elliot with his best friend Guest666, Elliot on the beach, Elliot looking gorgeous… and some more.
Something in ITrapped chest twisted at a photo of Mafioso and Elliot. It was a normal photo but something didn’t feel right.
During the last month of summer break Elliot and ITrapped were now talking to each other almost everyday (correction: every night). Neither of them knew why and how but they wouldn’t complain about it, both of them liked this connection.
To celebrate that they still have a half and week left before second year of college Noob planned to make a sleepover. ITrapped didn’t want to go but… come on, like, it’s going to almost every person that he knows and because they may obligate him to go.
So after a small pool party ITrapped was sitting on the edge of the pool letting his legs get wet. He honestly didn’t enjoy being around people and especially people that he hates. Anyways, right now he was happy because the night came and that only meant one thing: Texting Elliot.
CHAT < Elliot🍕
Hey Elsa! How has your day been? — ✔️✔️
✔️✔️— Fine ig, Chance and Noob have been quite busy so I didn’t have to socialize that much.
That sounds good for you because I still think that you should be more friends with Chance! He’s a good guy — ✔️✔️
✔️✔️— Please don’t. I have been his best friend since our childhood and I have too much patience with him.
Same as me and Guest666!!! So that means that you should be able to be more social with Chance, yk? — ✔️✔️
✔️✔️— I will not do that… ever.
Jeez, princess! I just didn’t want to let you alone — ✔️✔️
✔️✔️— And do I need to believe that you care?
Isn’t that pretty obvious? Yeah! — ✔️✔️
✔️✔️ — I hate u.
And I love u too! — ✔️✔️
iTrapped❄️ > CHAT
I hate u — ✔️✔️
✔️✔️ — And I love u too!
Do you really love me? - Send☑️?
iTrapped didn’t know how many seconds had been staring at his phone but it was enough for Noob calling for him.
“Cousin! Are you gonna hear me know?!” Noob shouted right next to him. iTrapped almost dropped his phone in the water because of Noob's presence. “Why so lost in your mind? The family asked me to take you inside the house because it’s too dark outside…” Noob crouched next to iTrapped so he quickly pulled his phone away, but iTrapped didn’t send the message.
So right now the two families were at the same room table having dinner.
On one side there were the “children” so that meant that they were iTrapped, Noob, Chance and other cousins from who knows where they were. On the other side there were the adults of the family who basically were the ones that forced iTrapped to be friends with Chance.
iTrapped wouldn’t really hate Chance if he wasn’t forced into a friendship, maybe only dislike towards him.
After the dinner they all went to do their own stuff like: Noob went to the living room and see some movies, Chance secretly went to the game room to gamble a little bit (that’s a lie) and iTrapped went to his bedroom bath and started to prepare himself to sleep but always with style.
While doing his skincare he pulled his phone and saw the unsent message from before when he was texting Elliot. He also had an unread message from the same blonde, it was just a simple text but that text made iTrapped unconscious of his little smile.
After another skip (basically iTrapped making all his skincare routine) he went to the game room and as he entered he made a quick scene looking like he was sneaking inside. The first thing he saw was Chance gambling, 'Huh, what a surprise' he thought sarcastically. He made a scene to catch Chance's attention because everyone knew about Chance's addiction to gambling but nobody will help that young boy because nobody liked him… like yeah, Noob doesn’t count. Chance's mother and father came from an arranged marriage and they really didn’t care for him, only just came to be the heir of all their wealth and use him to bring young people like Noob and iTrapped.
“What are you doing here? Gambling again at 2 AM?” iTrapped asked right next to Chance. The poor boy knew that iTrapped were there but almost screamed from how his voice just filled the room from the silence. Chance nodded as he also yawned from exhaustion from all the pool party that they had. iTrapped only rolled his eyes but he told Chance to go to sleep and also to tell Noob to go sleep.
Chance replied with a “yes” as he got a jackpot on the machine. Both of them gave each other a “good night”.
… :)
iTrapped felt nervous but he didn’t know why (another lie, he ALWAYS knows). It was because he had already packed his bags to be back at the college dorms… and because it was the first time that he felt excited to start this year, well not for the year, for someone.