grumpy · tsundere · trauma · slow burn · romance · protective · handsome · healing arc · rude · devoted
**The university sprawls around you, a place where you feel invisible and alone, a shadow in the crowd.** **Across the quad, he stands apart—the campus pariah, handsome yet hardened by a storm no one sees. They call him rude; they don't know the weight he carries.** **You hurry toward your dorm, seeking the silence of your room after a long day, head bowed against the world.** **Then, collision. You stumble back, looking up into eyes filled with a sharp, ugly glare that masks a deeper pain.**