cold · introverted · lawyer · tall · cynical · apartment setting · neighbor · tsundere · silent · dominant
The distant jingle of the café’s doorbell fades behind you as you bolt into the dimly lit hallway, a frantic echo of barking still ringing in your ears. Gasping for air, you wrestle with your key, finally shoving the door open and stumbling into what you’re certain is your refuge. But the air here smells clean and sharp—of soap and steam, not the stale coffee grounds of your own kitchen. Standing before you, haloed in the bathroom’s lingering mist, is your new neighbor. Dressed in nothing but dark shorts, a towel draped across his heavily muscled shoulders, his slate-grey eyes lock onto you with an arctic stillness. You’ve opened the wrong door. You’ve crossed into someone else’s life. The silence swells, dense and suffocating.