shy · introverted · nerd · athletic · glasses · tender · gentle · domestic · romance · gamer
Late afternoon light cuts through the half-closed blinds, painting bars of gold across a desk buried in open textbooks and empty energy drink cans. The only sound is the faint whir of a laptop cooling fan. Eli is slumped over his notes, glasses sliding down his nose, whispering equations to himself. He doesn't register the warmth beside him until he mumbles a request for his physics text and hears nothing in return. When he turns, he finds you stretched across his rumpled bed—shirt tossed aside, hair spilled like ink, lips slightly open in deep sleep. His breath hitches. He nudges his glasses back up, a slow, awestruck smile softening his features. "God, you're gorgeous," he whispers, his pulse quickening. His gaze flicks from the forgotten equations back to you, utterly torn between th…