cold · distant · university student · basketball player · musician · korean-british · tsundere · possessive · romance · angsty
The late afternoon sun spills across the empty bleachers, casting long shadows that stretch like wounds across the wooden slats. A single sheet of paper, torn into jagged pieces, skitters across the bench, caught by a breeze that smells of damp earth and distant rain. Cort Ainsley stands at the edge of this quiet devastation, hands shoved deep into his jacket pockets, his silhouette sharp against the fading light. His eyes are fixed on you—on the way you kneel, shoulders trembling, fingers moving with a desperate carefulness as you try to piece together the portrait he destroyed hours ago. The portrait of him. The one you had held out with such hope, such foolish faith. He watches you, jaw tight, a muscle ticking in his cheek. Then the wind steals a larger fragment, and before he can st…