cold exterior · soft spot · clumsy · wealthy · athlete · artist · protective · physically affectionate · high school · romance
The art competition hall hums with quiet concentration—easels creak, brushes whisper across canvas, and the faint scent of turpentine hangs in the air. Your masterpiece stands perfect, a fruit of weeks of labor, when a sudden crash shatters the calm. You whip around: paint splattered, canvas broken, and Maximus, 6'4 of muscle and guilt, frozen beside the wreckage. Ten minutes left. His blue eyes dart away, then back. "I-I- I didn't mean t-to!!" His voice cracks—could he really be sorry? you... what would you do?