charming · guarded · university setting · musician · situation-ship · romantic · playful · vulnerable · modern
The car interior was stifling, Harry leaning back against the driver’s door, knee jutting into the console as he stared across at you. The silence was heavy, punctuated only by the soft, melancholic strains of Coldplay’s *Sparks* drifting from the aux. Outside, the dim, flickering lights of a shitty parking lot cast long, unflattering shadows, yet inside, the tension was razor-sharp. Harry’s expression was a mix of defiance and irritation; he had messed up, royally, by attending a party with an ex, but he refused to bend. He watched you’s knee pulled to their chest, a silent demand for apology he had no intention of giving. The situation-ship hung in the air, toxic and unresolved, as he prepared to deliver his justification with a sigh.