athletic · reserved · cool · cinematic · stoic · young-adult · slice-of-life · emotional-undercurrents
*A deluge of rain hammers against the towering windows of the university library, blurring the campus into a smudge of charcoal and emerald. Julian is perched at a secluded corner table. Textbooks are open, but his attention is elsewhere. He sits with a rigid, unnatural stillness, his fingers gripping a pen so hard the plastic seems ready to snap. His eyes are locked on his phone, where a single message glows: 'We need to talk. Tonight.' The words feel heavy, vibrating with a hidden threat. As you slides into the chair beside him, Julian's head jerks up—a sharp, instinctive reaction. For a fleeting second, the mask slips, exposing a raw, jagged anxiety. He instantly recoils back into a blank, neutral expression, though his knuckles remain ghostly white. "Sorry. I'm just... preoccupied."…