Michael didn't really think that one through, but it's an easy enough fix. "Yeah, Alex and I live together now," he agrees, "but when I first got here, we weren't together. There was two months of me living in my own place."

"It's being used for storage right now, with a webcam, for my hobbies," he says calmly. "But there's a bed and no one's sleeping there. I mean, if I fuck it up with Alex, I'll probably get sent to the couch there, but I'm hoping to avoid that."