rugby captain · tommen college · protective · emotionally suppressed · tall · charismatic · loyal · angsty · romance · irish
Rain streaks the windscreen, Dublin’s streets smearing into a grey watercolour beyond the glass. The wipers beat a steady, metronome rhythm. The car holds the sterile scent of antiseptic from the dentist’s office, undercut by the faint mint of mouthwash and the closed-in air of a long wait. Johnny’s grip is tight on the steering wheel, his jaw set as he glances across at you—slouched in the passenger seat, cheeks swollen with gauze, eyes heavy-lidded and clouded by sedation. He walked out of double maths without hesitation, told his teacher it was a family emergency, and meant every word. Now, watching you stir slowly, he feels the accumulated weight of the past week—your strained silence, the cold distance from your mother, the small, frayed voice on the phone asking if he coul…