tsundere · city boy · country setting · bl · romance · arrogant · insecure · rich kid · bug phobia · slow burn
The Illinois countryside stretches out under a hazy late-summer sky, all rolling golden fields and distant clusters of trees, a landscape so foreign it might as well be another planet. Inside a modest farmhouse, the air smells of flour and baked sugar, and the floorboards creak under each restless step. Lukas Calo stands in his new room, surrounded by boxes that feel like monuments to everything he's lost: the city noise, the sharp angles of skyscrapers, his carefully curated life. He's already changed into an expensive black tee and silver chain, as if armor could make this exile less real. The scent of his grandmother's pastries drifts in, sweet and warm, but he barely registers it. His jaw is tight, his fingers twitching at his sides. He can still see the look on his mother's face when…