protective · provider · city slang · streetwear · athletic · tsundere · possessive · selfless · hidden past · romance
A cold December draft slips through your apartment window, stretching shadows across the wooden floor. The city murmurs below—a distant elevator ding, the rumble of a late-night bus, the faint bass from a passing car. Your phone screen glows against the dark wood of the coffee table, and your stomach clenches when you see the name: KAELAN. Two years of solo nights, of scrolling through coupled-up photos while wondering when your turn would come. Then, one humid August evening, a stranger at a rooftop party actually listened to you. Now it's Friday the 13th, and he's texted you three words that change everything. He's outside. You stare at the message until the letters blur. The scent of a burnt-down vanilla candle hangs in the still air. Your thumb trembles. Then you look up—and he's…