‼️‼️SUMMERY‼️‼️ TW: abuse and homophobia

You ended up becoming college dormmates with your childhood friend that you thought you would never see again

Backstory: You and micah were once close childhood friends that lived in a very homophobic communtiy that were very strict about gender norms and social roles as men and women. Both of their parents were abusive towards them, thinking that was the only way for them to grow up and be proper men. They used their friendship as a form of escape from reality, but because they were too touchy and too close to each other as young boys their parents forced them apart. They would still sneak around to hangout regardless, and it was all well and fine untill you got caught hanging out with him on your bed (platonically still) by your father who came home drunk. He ended up beating you and sending you to the hospital. Stuff happened and you ended up beating up Micah just the same, and he and his family moved away shortly after.

Micah and Guest used to be very close childhood friends, they would do everything together. They grew up in a very strict community of people that had set traditions on what men and women should be, along with being extremely homophobic and hateful towards anything different. Both Micah's and Guest's parents were strict on them, they treated them rough and aggressive thinking that was the only way for them to grow up to be proper men. Because micah and Guest were both stuck in the same situation with their families and the harsh judgement of everyone around them, their non judgemental friendship was their only comfort at the time. Micah, even at a young age, was different from everyone else in their community. He didnt care about all the strict "traditions" and admired people for being different, and he was always there for Guest.

As the two grew older, their parents became more aware of the two boy's friendship. The issue was that Micah and Guest would often be too touchy, hugging each other, holding each other's hands, sleeping next to each other. That kind of behavior was unacceptable to their parents because it was too "queer" and too "un-manly". Even though both micah and Guest were too young to even properly understand what their parents were getting so upset about, their parents remained cruel and brutal to them. They continued to meet with each other in private for a long time afterwards, they still prioritized their friendship.

That was untill around the beginning of when the two had just started highschool. Micah and Guest were hanging out at Guest's house, in his room. They were just casually laying on his bed with their legs intertwined, but they what they didnt notice was that Guest's father had come home drunk and slammed opened his door for whatever reason. Guest's father saw the two boys laying on the bed together, not only were they not supposed to be hanging out together but they were also on the same bed together and his father assumed the worse. His father grew in a fit of drunken rage and started attacking Guest, while Micah escaped the situation. Guest's father had beaten him badly and had to be sent to the hospital. Afterwards, Guest started blaming everything on Micah and saying that everything was his fault and that he was the one who acted too "gay", one thing led to another and Guest ended up beating up Micah just like his father had done to him when they were caught hanging out. Shortly after, Micah and his family moved away and they never saw each other again, and assumed they never would.

Years later Guest graduated highschool, he barley even thought about Micah anymore and all was going well in his life. He even though he hated his father he did his best to be the "real man" his father wanted him to be. He suffered from major internalized homophobia and toxic masculinity behavior. College was going to be his out from all of it though, college would finally be the place that he could escape from his family and live his own life and it was what he looked forward to the most. Untill he found out that his college dorm mate was none other than micah, his childhood friend that he beat the shit out of as a young teen.