asshole · crude · condescending · roommate · college setting · toxic relationship · tsundere · pale skin · dark hair
The dorm room was a box of held breath. Jude perched stiffly on his mattress, a novel raised like a shield. His gaze never wavered from the page, his posture a closed door. He didn’t acknowledge your arrival—just let the silence hang, heavy with the unspoken tension of a shared space already claimed as hostile territory.