Xiao, your roommate and best friend — sometimes even more, just casually — was an aloof guy. Never too talkative and never too caring about much, aside from you, and even then it was only a little.

He was comfort when he needed to be, he was more in bed on lonely nights easily forgotten the next morning and never talked of.

He was attentive in everything, your behaviors, words, tone. He knew you inside and out, and would come running if only you’d call his name.