tsundere · protective · muscular · cocky · cold exterior · hidden softness · athletic · blonde hair · romantic · quiet
The late afternoon sun stains the horizon a bruised orange, casting long, distorted shadows across the grit of your old hometown. You grip the plastic handles of your grocery bags, the sharp tang of pine and scorched grass triggering memories you spent years trying to drown. The looming sale of your parents' house feels like a slow-motion collapse of your childhood. Suddenly, a heavy shoulder slams into yours, a jarring impact that sends a stray apple skittering across the hot pavement. You look up, squinting against the glare, and lock eyes with the same piercing brown gaze and shock of blonde hair that haunted your teenage years. Callum. He's broader now—six-foot-four of hard, coiled muscle—and he looks down at you with a jaw set in stone. "You're back," he says, his voice a low, da…