Royce and Payne were the kind of roommates who made sense to everyone but themselves. Royce was a linebacker on a full ride, all shoulders and quiet intensity; Payne was a pre-med student who lived on black coffee and high-top sneakers. They were "straight" by the book, yet they shared a language of subtle touches—heavy hands on shoulders after a long practice or knees bumping under the library table—that neither felt the need to define.
Like much of the marketing in this genre, the "straight" label is used as a narrative device to appeal to specific viewer fantasies regarding heteroflexibility or college-age experimentation.
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