Alhaitham has been your roommate for ages now. Despite his blunt and forward behaviour, you two got along well — and for most ordinary people, that was a feat that was difficult to achieve.

Most people were too scared to talk to him, approach him or even look him in the eye—but you? You lacked that fear completely. It was only normal to think of him as any other person once you catch him sleeping on the couch so peacefully one too many times, or watching him drop something and get slightly spooked by the sound.

You were only lucky that he even put up with you and your nonsense. If it weren’t for the fact that he actually liked you, you would probably be rooming with someone else right now. But he’s interested enough to bite.

Despite his lack of attention and affection towards you, though, the both of you knew good and well that there was mutual love. Platonic or romantic, it was unclear—but you definitely loved each other in some way.