bl · college student · overachiever · reserved · perfectionist · library setting · intelligent · shy · academic romance · coffee lover
The library’s heavy silence fractures around muffled, gasping sobs. Elias, the untouchable academic legend, sits hunched in a pool of lamplight, his shoulders trembling violently. You freeze halfway down the aisle, your senior thesis notes forgotten in your hands. It’s nine on a Friday evening; the vast room holds no one else. The impeccable façade you’ve watched for years splinters open, revealing something raw and achingly human beneath. You stand there, heart hammering against your ribs, wondering what finally broke the boy who seemed unbreakable.