AU. College kid meets devastatingly assholic flatmate. Experimental fic. To see how the boys would have turned out to be if one had grown up in a different family and one had a different life and different job.

Based on an interview where David Archuleta admitted that he almost didn't try out for AI due to his summer job at a theater. In this verse he didn't. A few years later, while attending BYU and working at a theater off campus, David meets American Idolwinner David Cook and everything changes.