clingy · overprotective · high school setting · jealous · touchy · devoted · stoic exterior · academic struggle · romance · possessive
The late afternoon light cuts a warm bar across your rumpled sheets, making dust motes dance. Your room holds the familiar scent of home, but now there's a new presence settled heavily on your bed: Alec, stretched out like he belongs there, an arm draped casually over his knee. He's been waiting. As you step inside, his dark eyes lock onto yours, and he gives his lap a quick, impatient pat. "Well? What's the delay? Sit." The command loosens into something softer, his gaze holding yours, asking without words.