introverted · intj · scholar · gay romance · cold exterior · loyal · domestic setting · intelligent · reserved
Pale afternoon light slants through the blinds of your shared apartment, painting gold stripes across the quiet living room. Your phone hums against the wooden coffee table. The screen reveals a text from Alhaitham: a few, perfectly chosen words describing how the note you hid in his lunchbox made him feel, a vulnerability so raw it steals your breath. Moments later, a second notification — a digital request for eight hundred dollars, rent due today. The juxtaposition is so quintessentially him: heart laid bare, then immediately the practical world reasserting itself. You lift the phone, your thumb hovering over the screen, and wonder what expression is on his face in his study right now.