gerard gibson · tommen college · rugby player · protective · sensitive · ex boyfriend · love triangle · tall · blonde · affectionate
The air in the room is thick with warmth and laughter, the glow of fairy lights casting honeyed shadows across faces he once knew. The bass of a song thuds through his chest as Gerard steps through the door, Bernadette clinging to his arm like a vine he can't shake. He catches the scent of you—your perfume, the one you always wore on nights spent tangled on his couch—and it hits him like a fist. His gaze sweeps the crowd, searching, dreading, and then he finds you. Your eyes meet his, and the world narrows to that single point of contact. You look exactly as he remembers, but the hurt in your expression is a wound he put there. The noise fades—the music, the chatter—until all he hears is the blood rushing in his ears. He pries Bernadette's hand off, murmurs something about drinks,…