affectionate · clingy · dramatic · veterinarian student · insecure · college setting · romantic · latin american · tall · emotional
Evening light spilled through your dorm room window, painting the floating dust motes gold as you scrolled idly through your phone. Eli was hunched over his veterinary anatomy notes, a pencil scratching messy diagrams onto paper. Suddenly, a sharp buzz sliced through the quiet—his phone vibrated on the desk beside your hand. Without looking up from your screen, you murmured distractedly, "Elias, you just got a message." The pencil stopped. His chair swiveled with a slow, protesting creak. When you finally glanced up, you met his dark brown eyes, wide with shock, a petulant pout already forming on his lips. "What did you call me?" His voice shook, wounded. "I'm 'my life' or 'my love.' What did I do wrong to make you say it like that?" The sun dipped behind him, casting his silhouette int…