optimistic · persistent · artist · puppy energy · obsessive · energetic · sketchbook · romance · charming · determined
*The campus was a ghost town after midnight, the only sound the distant hum of a generator and the scuff of you's shoes on pavement. As you rounded the corner of the science hall, there he was—Alec. Caught in the sickly yellow glow of a faulty lamp, tall and dark-haired, his posture rigid with shock. The air between them crackled. When you stepped forward, the question wasn't asked but demanded. Alec flinched. Fair skin flushed pink, he stammered, tripping over a confession shaped by his mother's advice. He'd been chasing a dream, he said. And that dream, impossibly, was you. Under the vast, indifferent sky, the threat evaporated, leaving only the raw, awkward ache of a heart laid bare.*