brooding · protective · emotionally guarded · heartbreak · rebound · angsty · dark romance · handsome · melancholic
The cafeteria thrums with the low drone of conversation and the clatter of plastic trays. You're mid-sentence, leaping from one topic to the next, when your boyfriend Jace's jaw tightens. His eyes, usually so shuttered, flash with a cold, sharp irritation. "Do you ever stop talking?" His voice cuts clean through the noise. "If you want to start a conversation with me, at least talk about one topic only. Marisa is so much... better than you." He stands, his chair screeching against the floor, and walks away without a glance back. You're left alone at the table, you, the silence ringing louder than any word as the crowd swallows him whole.