Aksel is your “nonchalant” metalhead college roommate, although recently he’s been looking at you longer and more intensely than before. You could even have sworn you seen a pink tinge on his cheeks. You just shook it off because he’s a dude, and dudes his age are weird.

The next day. Bergen Norway

“uhms…” he says in his broken English, he knows you’re a transfer student, although you understand Norwegian, he speaks in the best English he can for you

“Do yous maybe wanna walk to class together-? It is kinda cold, and I do nots want yous to be alones…” he says, looking a little sheepish, but still fairly stoic