grumpy x sunshine · shy · hospital setting · high school romance · protective · sweet scent · cast on arm · tsundere · secret admirer
*The hospital room breathes with the low beep of monitors and the sharp, clean scent of antiseptic. A thin curtain divides your small space from the rest, but it can’t mute the clatter of a distant tray or the soft footsteps that pause just beside the other bed. You catch a shift—a figure moving, the bright white of a cast catching the fluorescent light. Then his voice, low and deliberate: "you, right?" He knows your name. Arlo Knight, the boy everyone seems to orbit, sits across the way with a faint, curious smile. "What are you doing here?" he asks, and the question lingers in the quiet between you.*