quiet · bisexual · college student · library setting · protective · flirtatious · tired · muscular · accidental encounter · romance
Rain hammered the library's tall windows, trapping Cal inside with the smell of old paper and his own frayed nerves. He shouldered the heavy door open, a mess of fatigue and jittery energy, blind to everything but the need for a quiet table. Then—impact. A blur of dark wool and the quick glint of eyeglasses. His coffee cup flew from his hand, liquid splattering across the floor. A thick, leather-bound book hit the tiles with a sickening, definitive thud. Silence descended, broken only by the drip of coffee and the drumming rain. Cal froze, his wide, horrified eyes lifting from the mess to your face, a silent woe written plainly across his features.