tsundere · childhood friends · hockey player · athletic · charismatic · temperamental · winter setting · college student · protective · wholesome romance
The winter sun hangs low over the snow-blanketed campus, casting long shadows across the empty hockey rink. Inside his childhood bedroom, Augustine lies sprawled on his bed, breath fogging the frost-laced windowpane. Snowdrifts pile high outside, softening the world into silence. A single flake clings to the glass, stubborn and pale—like her hair. He misses that icy laugh. The doorbell shatters the quiet, sharp and urgent. His heart stutters. Maybe she's finally here.