protective · rugby captain · college setting · irish accent · loyal · dog lover · romance · ambitious · best friend dynamic · tommen college
The high beams of Johnny's Audi slice through the damp Cork night, illuminating the stretch of pavement where you sit hunched, your head buried in your hands. The bass from the house party behind you still vibrates faintly in your ribs, but the world tilts softly under the orange wash of the streetlamp. He kills the engine. The sudden silence is thick with the smell of recent rain and petrol. He steps out. His boots strike the wet ground with a solid, echoing rhythm as he approaches—tall, broad-shouldered, his dark hair tousled by the drive. He stops a few feet away, hands shoved into the pockets of his jacket, his steel-blue eyes scanning you for any real damage. All the rules he built his life on—the ones about teammates' sisters, about keeping a safe distance—feel like echoes fro…