r/eroticliterature • u/BadDecisionsKat • 1h ago
I Reply to Comments! New House, New Lin [25F26M][FM][Roommates][College][Casual Sex][Relationship Drama] - House Rules, Part 1 NSFW
The room was on the Upper East Side, about a fifteen-minute walk from Hunter.
That was the important part.
If I lived here, I could actually go to campus every day. No excuses about the train. No deciding that forty minutes each way wasn't worth it for one lecture. I could leave home at eight forty and still make a nine o'clock class.
The room itself was about the same size as the one I had now. I'd be sharing with five other people, all students, which was apparently a requirement for renting it.
Six people sounded like a lot.
Then again, three had somehow been complicated enough.
The building was six stories of dark red brick, with a black fire escape running down the front and enough window air conditioners to make the whole thing look slightly improvised.
The entrance sat three steps above the sidewalk beneath a stone arch that had probably looked impressive when it was built. Now it mostly made the building look old.
I could see myself living here.
The front door was propped open, so I went inside and climbed to the second floor.
Apartment 203 had enough names beside the doorbell that I had to check the number again.
Five names.
Right.
I was supposed to meet someone named Ethan.
I knocked.
A tan guy with dark hair opened the door. T-shirt, pants, sandals. He looked about my age.
“Hi. I'm Lillian. I'm here to see the room?”
“Ah, sure. Come in.”
He stepped aside, then turned toward the hallway.
“Ethan! Someone's here about the room.”
A Black man's head appeared around one of the doorways.
He looked at me and smiled.
Ethan came the rest of the way out of the room. He was wearing a shirt, pants, and a pair of very nice-looking sneakers. His hair was cropped short, and when he shook my hand, I caught the smell of vanilla.
His handshake was warm.
“Lillian. Perfect timing. Let me show you the room.”
He led me farther down the hallway and stopped at an open door.
The room was empty. Four walls, a window, and, somewhat unexpectedly, a small sink in one corner.
“Every room has its own sink. Bathrooms and showers are shared. We've got three toilets and two showers, and the hot water is tankless, so you don't have to worry about being last and getting a cold shower.”
He said that with the enthusiasm of someone who had apparently experienced the alternative.
“My mom had the place forever, and I took over the lease. Rent's stupid cheap by Manhattan standards, so we just split it. It's twelve hundred a month, paid on the fifteenth. Does that work for you?”
Six hundred dollars less than I was paying now.
“Yes.”
“Oh, and you're a student, right? We only accept students.”
“Registered and everything.”
I pulled my student ID from my wallet and handed it to him.
“Nice. So based on what you said in the email, you can move in on the first?”
“Yes. I'm paid up through November fifteenth at my other place, so unless I can get some of that back, this is going to be a little expensive. But I think it'll be worth it.”
“Cool. You need any help moving?”
“Thanks, but I'll hire people. Most of my stuff is going into storage. I'll bring the necessities, but not much else.”
He nodded.
“Okay then. Shake on it, and I'll see you next Thursday?”
That was apparently all it took.
I smiled and held out my hand.
“See you Thursday.”
The moving company had dropped off boxes yesterday, and I'd given myself the day to pack before they came at five to pick everything up.
Everything in the living room was going into storage.
Everything in my room was going to the new place.
Simple enough.
I was about halfway done when I heard the front door unlock.
Could it be Dan? He should be at work.
I went into the hallway and found Mia standing there with bubble tea and a bag that looked like it had food in it.
Crud.
This was not how this was supposed to happen.
Okay. Smile. There was no reason this had to be awful.
“Mia!”
I went straight over and hugged her.
“Should have said you were coming over,” I said in my best attempt at sounding warm.
Mia didn't smell like Mia anymore.
She used to smell of laundry detergent and cheap strawberry body wash. Now she smelled dry and woody, like wood shavings and forest air.
She smelled like Leah.
“Eh, I live here,” she said.
“No you don't.”
It came out with more bite than I intended.
“Oh my God, you brought food? I am starving.”
I wasn't really. I'd eaten a wrap about an hour earlier, but I couldn't reject Mia's food at the same time as I was rejecting her.
“Huh?”
Mia looked confused.
Just act normal. We can get through this.
She lifted the food and drinks. “Oh, right, yeah. I have banh mi and some bubble tea.”
“Oh, my favorite. Thank you.”
I took the bag from her and walked into the kitchen.
Favorite.
Wrong flavor of bubble tea and pork instead of beef.
Favorite adjacent.
Mia followed me into the kitchen.
“You’re moving? When were you planning to tell me?”
I bit my tongue and went with the lines I'd rehearsed.
“Our lease ends November fifteenth. I’m paying my part until then. After that, we would have had to negotiate something new with the landlord anyway.”
I let out a sigh. This was not going to plan.
“I was planning to tell you once I had all my stuff out of here.”
Mia looked shocked.
“What is happening, Lin? Where are you going?”
I sat down at the table, unwrapped my food, and took a bite.
Remember the lines.
“I’ve been feeling different since we came back from Shelly’s wedding. I think you unlocked something in me. A new passion, or want. The video with Anna, the stuff at the school. It... refreshed me. Made the fog go away. Then the way you spoke to my friends and family about me made me realize I wasn't trying to be the person you saw me as. I wasn't working hard at school. I wasn't planning for the future. I was just... hanging around.”
I took another bite.
Eat. Chew. Swallow. Keep going.
“I’ve decided to focus on school. I want to attend more classes in person. I want to focus on my degree. I want to get this done, and I want to do it well.”
If I stopped, she'd start asking questions.
Mia looked around the room, pointing at all the boxes. “But why are you moving?”
“I found a room closer to Hunter. If I'm going to actually attend classes instead of doing everything I can online, I don't want an hour of my day disappearing on the train.”
Another bite. Keep going.
Mia looked puzzled. “Isn’t that more expensive than here?”
“I’m sharing with five other people. It’s twelve hundred a month, so I’m saving about six hundred.”
“Five other people?” Mia said, sounding shocked.
“It’s fine. They’re all students, so everyone is focused on school. Cutting out distractions. Really getting this done.”
Mia gave me a look.
“What distractions?”
Crud.
That wasn't one of the lines.
I looked down at my food.
There probably wasn't a nice way to answer that.
“I’m cutting things off with Dan, and...” I took a deep breath. “I want to create some distance between us.”
I didn't look her in the eye when I said it.
“I want you to stop texting me. No more sex, no more spending the night. I don’t want you visiting me or pulling me into anything. I want a clean break. Maybe once I get my footing, we can reconnect.”
I expected Mia to slap me. Or shout.
Instead, she was quiet.
I looked up. She was sitting across from me.
“Was I stopping you from studying?” she asked softly.
I closed my eyes.
Please don't ask the next question.
“No,” I said.
“Did I tell you not to get a job?”
“No.”
“Am I a burden?”
I opened my eyes and looked at her.
“That’s not what I’m saying.”
“Then why do you have to get rid of me to become a better person?”
I sank down in my chair and tilted my head back, staring at the ceiling.
This was why I'd wanted to be gone before I told her.
“It’s not like that.”
“You are running away, Lin. You are not doing this because you suddenly care about your fucking GPA. You are doing this because I said I love you, and you decided that was too scary when you started feeling something for me.”
Okay, that hurt.
Mia stood up from her chair.
“You left Iowa, not because you wanted to move to New York, but because you wanted out of Iowa. You settled in here, and then you found me. But when I tell you I love you, you start feeling the same way, and Leah makes everything complicated, suddenly you need another fresh start. You can’t pick complicated, so you choose to run.”
I stood up and moved toward her.
This was getting worse.
Hug her. Calm her down. Get her out the door.
“I know you are angry, Mia, but... I want this. I need this.”
She started toward the door, avoiding my hug.
“I guess I’ll see you around,” she said as she touched the door handle.
“Mia, wait.”
She looked back at me.
Her eyes were red. She was close to crying.
“What!?”
Damn.
“I’m... sorry.”
It was all I had.
Mia turned back toward the door.
“Fuck you, Lin.”
She slammed it behind her.
I pinched the bridge of my nose.
Okay.
That could have gone worse.
At least it was over.
I went back to packing.
When I showed up, all my new roommates helped with the move.
Boxes were quickly moved into my room and stacked neatly against the walls. My bed was set up in no time, and the whole thing was over in less than thirty minutes.
Amazing what five guys could accomplish when they all decided to do something at the same time.
I was unpacking when Ethan knocked on my door and asked if I wanted to join them for dinner.
“Mateo's cooking, and not to be racist, but his Mexican is superior in basically every way.”
I accepted and joined everyone in the dining room.
They explained the system to me over dinner.
There was a shared food budget, and every day you could opt in for dinner. Cooking rotated between everyone who opted in. It was cheaper than everyone buying and cooking their own food. It meant you didn't end up with six versions of the same thing taking up the refrigerator, and it guaranteed at least one point during the day when everyone had a reason to be in the same room.
Efficient, social, and designed to avoid arguments.
I liked it immediately.
Introductions happened somewhere between Mateo putting food on the table and everyone starting to eat.
Mateo Alvarez was twenty-five, Mexican-American, and studying architecture. He was also apparently responsible for dinner and most of the conversation.
“This is Noah Kim,” Mateo said, pointing across the table. “He does computers and judges us silently.”
Noah gave him a look.
“Computer Science.”
“See?”
Noah was twenty-four, Korean-American, with short black hair and glasses. He gave me a small wave.
“Hi, Lillian.”
“Hi.”
Next to him was Oliver Bennett, although everyone called him Ollie. He was twenty-seven, making him the oldest of us, and was doing his JD. He had light brown hair that was cut short and neatly styled.
“Ollie handles legal complaints,” Mateo said.
“I absolutely do not.”
“He'll tell you why your complaint isn't legally actionable.”
“That I might do.”
I smiled.
Dev Patel was twenty-three, Indian-American, and studying Film and Media Studies. He had thick black hair that curled slightly around his ears and a short beard.
The woman sitting beside him was Sophie Chen, his girlfriend. She was Chinese-American, also twenty-three, with long black hair and round glasses. She was studying Psychology.
“She doesn't live here,” Ethan explained.
“But I pay into the food fund,” Sophie added immediately.
“Very important distinction,” Mateo said.
“I eat here three or four nights a week. I'm not freeloading off you people.”
“She has her own shelf in the fridge,” Dev said.
“I pay for that too.”
I liked Sophie immediately.
That left Ethan Brooks, who I already knew. He was twenty-six, Black, had short-cropped hair, and was doing his master's in Mechanical Engineering.
Five roommates, one regular girlfriend, and me.
I repeated the names in my head.
Ethan. Mateo. Noah. Ollie. Dev. Sophie.
That wasn't too difficult.
“Alcohol budget isn't shared, by the way,” Ethan said as he opened a beer. “But I can spot you if you don't have anything with you.”
“I can trade you half a bottle of Jägermeister for a few beers if that feels fair?”
“More than fair. My crappy beer against proper German hard liquor. I like how that sounds.”
I laughed as he handed me a beer.
We had a good meal together. Mateo really did make some great Mexican food.
I got to know everyone a little better and gave them the safe-for-work version of my own history. I was from Iowa, had moved to New York four years ago, was studying History and Arts at Hunter, and had recently decided I should probably take the studying part more seriously.
There were several other details that didn't seem necessary on the first night.
After dinner, people slowly started filing out, either disappearing into their rooms or saying good night.
“Any lectures tomorrow?” Ethan asked.
“Nothing until two. Fridays are fairly quiet. I've got some chapters I need to catch up on, though.”
“Cool. Wanna watch something?”
I shrugged, grabbed my beer, and followed him into the living room.
The couch was a huge U-shape, with several large chairs scattered around it. You could probably fit ten people in there comfortably.
The TV was enormous.
Eighty inches? Maybe more.
It took up almost the entire wall.
Ethan picked up the remote and turned on the TV.
“What do you want to watch?”
“What do you have?”
“Everything.”
“That seems unlikely.”
He opened an app with a yellow chevron that looked like half a play button.
There were a lot of movies and a lot of TV shows.
“Dev runs a server for the house. Movies, shows, whatever. If there's something you want and it isn't there, search for it, add it to the watchlist, and it'll mysteriously appear.”
I looked through the library.
“So we don't need Netflix or anything?”
“Nope. Cancel all of it.”
That was another fifty dollars or so a month I could stop spending.
I was starting to like this place.
Ethan pointed the remote at me.
“Don't ask how.”
“I wasn't going to.”
“Good. If the FBI raids us, you have no idea what Dev was doing.”
“I don't know what Dev is doing now.”
“Perfect.”
He browsed around in the movie section.
“You seen The Mummy?”
“Of course.”
“Good. I don’t trust people who haven’t.”
I had forgotten how good Brendan Fraser looked in this movie.
That was somewhat distracting.
We talked as the movie played. I learned a little about Ethan's family, and he learned a carefully edited version of mine.
By the time Imhotep was back at full power, Ethan had stretched his arm along the back of the couch.
I could have stayed where I was.
Instead, I leaned a little closer.
His arm dropped from the back of the couch and settled around my shoulders.
I smiled.
Okay.
I leaned closer again.
Ethan still smelled of vanilla. It had to be his shampoo or something. I took a deep breath, and he looked down at me.
“Something wrong?”
“No. Just smelling you.”
“Bad?”
“No, quite good, actually.”
He smiled at that and pulled me a little closer.
His arm was around my shoulders now, his hand resting directly over my left breast.
Okay.
That was fast, but not exactly wrong.
Maybe just some playing around tonight.
No sex.
I adjusted how I was sitting, bringing his hand closer against me.
He started moving it casually, and I could feel my nipple stiffening.
I looked up at him. He looked down at me and gave my boob a squeeze.
Smiling, I started running my hand along his leg.
Let's see who folds first.
He slipped his hand beneath my shirt.
Okay. Maybe I could fold first.
Handjob?
No. I am not a girl. I am a woman, and we give blowjobs.
But nothing more tonight.
Third base and done.
I undid his belt and opened his pants.
Size-wise, he wasn't as big as Dan.
Good. Nothing to fear, then.
I pulled him out of his underwear and discovered that he was clean-shaven. Not a look I was familiar with on guys, but nothing I objected to.
He stroked my head, and I sort of leaned into his hand before opening my mouth and sucking on his head.
A soft moan escaped him, and I felt him buck against me. I lifted my head with him.
I was giving head here, not getting facefucked.
He moved his hand away from my head and down to my butt. He gave it a squeeze and a light slap.
I shook my butt a little to show that I'd noticed, but kept working his dick.
Then I felt his hand slip beneath my pants and underwear and grab my butt cheek.
“Can you take off your pants? I want to see that ass.”
Sure, why not.
I was blowing him. He could look at my ass.
I got up and removed my pants, leaving my underwear on, then got back on the couch and continued the blowjob.
He went back to grabbing my butt cheek, and not long after that, I felt a finger slip into me.
A moan came out before I expected it.
Okay.
That did feel good.
Ethan clearly took that as encouragement and kept going. It made the blowjob considerably harder to perform, but I was no quitter.
Then another finger.
Another moan.
Fuck, Ethan. Why are you making this blowjob so difficult?
While I was still trying to recover, he used his other hand to lift my face toward his and kissed me, still fingering me.
When he pulled back, his voice was soft.
“It’s really hard for me to come from head. Are you on any contraception?”
I nodded.
“The pill.”
“Can I put it in you for a bit? I'll pull out. It’ll help me come.”
I looked at him for a second.
Third base and done.
Apparently that rule had lasted almost ten minutes.
I nodded, one hand still against his face while his fingers moved inside me.
“Okay.”
A tiny bit of sex, then.
He pulled my underwear to the side and slid his cock up and down between my lips a few times before entering me.
“Mmm, that feels good,” I said.
“God, you are so tight...”
I blushed.
I didn't think anyone had ever told me my pussy was tight before. It felt like a weird thing to be proud of, but I was.
We stayed like that for a while, with me straddling him as he pushed into me on the couch.
Then he moved me and stood up.
I thought he was about to come, so I started blowing him again. I'd rather swallow everything than get cum on my clothes.
He stood while I knelt on the couch, and I could taste myself on his dick.
It turned out Ethan wasn't ready to come just yet.
He moved behind me and entered me again, much deeper this time.
“Oh... I thought you were about to come for me,” I said.
“Not yet. Lean forward. Let me see your ass.”
I did, bending forward and putting my head down against the couch, lifting my ass for his inspection.
“Oh, that's nice. You have a very nice ass, Lillian.”
I smiled into the couch.
I was tight. I had a nice ass.
I really liked this sort of talk.
I felt his thumb circle my asshole.
Well, it was a really nice ass.
I pushed back against his thumb, feeling it slip in.
Ethan started to increase his pace, and I reached back between my legs and cupped his balls.
He suddenly stiffened, and I felt him twitch inside me.
Okay.
So he came inside me.
It was fine. I was on the pill.
He slid out and leaned back against the couch.
“That was amazing, Lillian. I'm sorry I came inside you, but when you grabbed my balls, I just couldn't control myself.”
I bit my lip.
Okay, this had gone a little further than I'd expected.
But I'd made him lose control.
That wasn't bad, right?
I leaned forward and kissed him.
“It was. We should do it again sometime.”
I gave him a wink, got up, and walked back to my room.
As the door closed, I felt cum running down my leg.
Okay, new goal. Ethan needs to be converted to a boyfriend. No more just sleeping around.
We are gonna be better here.
