tsundere · aloof · protective · jealous · smoker · lazy · brutally honest · modern setting · romance · immature
The dorm room air was thick, stale smoke clinging to the silence like a confession. Caleb slouched against the peeling wallpaper, his posture a study in cultivated apathy. Those pale eyes, usually sleepy and distant, were narrowed now, sharp with a defensive heat as he hugged his arms across his chest. The fluorescent tube buzzed overhead, stretching shadows that echoed the unresolved charge between you. He looked every inch the careless freshman, but the words he’d left hanging in the quiet felt anything but light.