college au prompts: 1/6
prompt: “you’re good at this subject, I’m not, I’m good at this subject, you’re not, let's be study buddies” college au
prompted by @randomheadcanons ♥
The house always smells of boy, and Tess resolves to buy them scented candles next time she goes shopping. Or opens her phone when she’s drunk. There’s a party at the sorority house this weekend, and she’s pretty sure she’s going to get blackout so that might be the right time to buy Bruce and Aaron some candles.
She finds Aaron at his desk, swathed in a huge sweater that does nothing for his thin frame. He’s hunched over his laptop, and the bags under his eyes are decidedly not Gucci. She leans in the doorframe, crossing her arms.
“Can I help you T?” he asks tiredly, not looking away from his screen. “I’ve got a history paper to finish.”
“I know,” she replies primly, “That’s why I’m here. I’m in Rachkov’s other section.”
Aaron turns, his chair spinning creakily towards her.
“I need your help,” she huffs out after an awkward silence with her former roommate. “I’m not doing so well on his papers, and I need the credit.”
“What program are you even taking this year Tess?” he sighs.
“Uh, psych, I think,” she says, wrinkling her nose. “But I need the credit. Listen, I’m also taking ceramics with you, with Professor Summers? I’ll show you how to use the wheel.”
He crosses his arms.
“I know how to throw clay,” he mutters, and she snorts, lifting a hand quickly to cover her face, eyes widening at the unladylike display.
“Yeah, and I can write a well cited paper on the ramifications of the American revolution,” she shoots back. “Come one, we’ll help each other out,” she whines, clasping her hands together. “Please, A?”
He groans, sitting back in the chair. It protests obnoxiously at the movement with a gruesome screech.
“And I’ll get you a new chair,” she adds, wincing. Aaron smiles innocently, rocking in the screaming chair slowly, watching Tess’ discomfort with something akin to brotherly glee.
“You’ve got yourself a deal.”
