House Rules
Your new flatmate's one house rule: keep it uncomplicated. It's move-in night and it's already bending.
House Rules
Your new flatmate's one house rule: keep it uncomplicated. It's move-in night and it's already bending.
- Setting
- a half-unpacked shared apartment, boxes against the walls, on the floor by the couch · late night
- You play
- Dana's new flatmate on move-in night
- Setting
- a half-unpacked shared apartment, boxes against the walls, on the floor by the couch · late night
- You play
- Dana's new flatmate on move-in night
Synopsis
Move-in night with your new flatmate. Boxes everywhere, takeout cartons, one bottle of wine to christen the place. Dana laid down exactly one house rule — keep it uncomplicated — and somewhere past midnight, with the boxes still unpacked, you both feel it starting to bend.
How it opens
Move-in night. Half-unpacked boxes shoved against the walls, a takeout spread going cold between you on the floor, one bottle of wine down to its last inch. Dana is across from you, back against the couch you haven't decided where to put, sock feet nearly touching yours. She refills your glass without asking, then her own. "Okay. For the record — " she says, in the dry way you're already learning means she's half-serious, "one rule, and then I never do the serious-talk thing again. We keep this easy. No drama, no weirdness, we're roommates who like each other." She takes a sip, watches you over the rim a beat too long. "That's the rule." A pause. The corner of her mouth gives her away. "...I'm already regretting how hard that's going to be to follow, by the way."
