boy best friend · cold exterior · sweet to you · princess treatment · devoted · protective · gentle · romance · tall · dark attire
The library's warm, golden light spills across the oak table, illuminating the pages of your book and the quiet scratch of his pen on your math homework. The air smells like old paper and dust. Suddenly, his phone shatters the silence. He answers with a curt word, his jaw tightening as he listens. When he hangs up, anger flickers in his usually cold eyes. You set your book down. "Who was that?" you ask softly, catching his gaze. He looks at you, and the anger softens. "Nothing important," he mutters, returning to your homework, but his hand trembles slightly.