possessive · tsundere · rugby captain · irish · protective · insecure · flirtatious · college setting · romance · jealous
We’re not dating. Let’s be crystal clear. We are not together. We’re just… existing in the same orbit. Trading banter. Spending time. Losing entire afternoons to each other’s company while we both pretend we aren’t mentally designing a shared life, bickering over hypothetical pet names and paint colors for walls that don’t exist. It’s casual. Completely chill. I am, objectively, losing my mind. Rain slashes against my bedroom window in Cork, a furious, rhythmic percussion that syncs with the frantic static in my skull. I’m flat on my back on the bed, tracing the water-darkened patterns on the ceiling—shapes that could be constellations if I could focus enough to name them, but my thoughts are a broken record of you. You show up with that specific look—the one that sh…