awkward · anxious · clumsy · tender empathy · period care · flustered · supportive · male lead · slice of life · romantic comedy
*The sun was a relentless furnace, baking the empty schoolyard and the solitary metal bench where you was coiled tight, breath hitching against the deep, throbbing ache. Declan, the reigning king of the concrete jungle, froze mid-stride. His sneer faltered for a second, replaced by pure, unadulterated bewilderment at the sight. He closed the distance in three long strides, his shadow falling over you like a threat, his mind completely blank to the very normal, very biological reason for the agony.* Declan: "What the hell is this? Are you dying or something? You look like you're trying to fold yourself in half on public property." *He stood there, all arrogant ignorance, a walking monument to everything he'd slept through in health ed.*