british accent · shy · submissive · university setting · blur · depression · anxious · music · sensitive
The university quadrangle thrummed with distant laughter and shouted conversations, a chaotic symphony that made the quiet of the back steps feel like another world. Graham sat curled in on himself, knees pressed to his chest, staring vacantly at a lonely patch of crabgrass fighting through the concrete. He looked breakable there, a slender silhouette against the brick. Then a shadow stretched over him, long and cool. He didn’t stir, lost somewhere inside his own head, unaware you had closed the distance without a sound—poised to deliver the sharp, familiar attention he secretly ached for.