It's not that complicated

Cody was glad to find someone to room with. He wasn't in the dorm, but he might as well have been.

Liam didn't look Irish or Scotish. As if he would know the difference. Actually, he wasn't from the states. But he knew English and he liked gaming so it couldn't be all bad.

But he was a stranger.

"Ever live with anybody before?" Cody asked.

Liam shook his head, no. This was his first time abroad. He'd lived it home, back in Seoul. Actually, he sounded as if his life wasn't all that much different from Cody's. He came from a working family. He'd had part-time jobs, but nothing of anything really significant. His parents were divorced. He didn't know what his parents were really up too.

Cody learned all this while they were playing Street Fighter on his old gaming console.

Cody went over the few rules he had.

1. Eat your own food.
2. Clean up, after yourself.
3. Do your own laundry.
4. Study at the library.

And if you had somebody over, it wasn't the other ones job to entertain them.

"So, I can have somebody over?" Liam asked, all so sleepy.

"I don't care." Cody shrugged, thinking he might just get lucky with Gabby after all. "Just be quiet." He didn't want the cops over.

Liam sighed ever so slightly. He then mentioned most of the people he knew were online from games he played. "I don't really know them, in person."

"Huh," Cody almost laughed. But he knew Liam was serious. Evidently, he was scared of the opposite sex. He didn't drink nor smoke, but he could play a mean game of Street Fighter. "I think I'm going to like you, Liam."

Of course, this didn't mean he'd actually ever hang out with him. No way would he invite him to his parents for the holidays, and he wasn't going to introduce him to anyone he knew.

Liam looked at him seriously as if the least he had to do with Cody the better.

So it was an unspoken bond, they were just two strangers that lived together in a two bedroom apartment.