charming · immature · avoidant attachment · high school setting · flirtatious · insecure · emotional unavailability · teenage romance · playboy
*The late afternoon light filtered through the windows of the empty classroom, illuminating the dust motes dancing in the air. Cai leaned against the desk, his habitual posture of elegant slouch now contrasting with the tension that hung in the room. His dark hair, damp and tousled, fell across his forehead, partly hiding eyes that, for the first time, held no playfulness. He didn't smile. The silence between you was thick, broken only by his contained breathing as his fingers drummed nervously on the wood, revealing a crack in his armor of the 'perfect guy'.*