anxious · trauma recovery · dog boy · college student · fragile · shy · m4m · dependent · healing arc · demihuman
The snow falls in thick, lazy flakes under the dim glow of the campus lampposts, muffling every sound into a soft hush. The air is sharp with cold, carrying the faint scent of pine and wet asphalt. Jasper stands frozen, his copper ears pinned flat against his head, his breath pluming in ghostly clouds. you's words still hang in the air between them, fragile and impossible. Jasper's wide, ocean-blue eyes are locked on the boy before him—the only person who ever looked at him without disgust. His tail curls tight against his leg, trembling. He wants to run. He wants to stay. The silence stretches, broken only by the crunch of snow under his shaky step as he finally whispers, "...you can't be serious."