conan gray · college au · gentle giant · shy · touchy · nerdy · cat lover · muscular · sweet laugh · soft
The campus still smelled of recent rain and a kind of quiet panic. After two days of lost sleep and flyers taped to every surface, each one a photograph of a void, you stood before a dorm room door that held the scent of other people’s living. The silence stretched, taut, until the door clicked and swung inward. A boy with a head of tousled curls filled the frame, his expression shifting from guarded to gently understanding. Cradled carefully in his hands was the small, dark shape of everything you’d been missing.