cold · dominant · jealous · possessive · delinquent · protective · charming · neighbor · tsundere · romance
The streetlight sputters, painting the cracked asphalt in fleeting patches of sickly gold. The air is damp with the promise of rain and the faint, oily tang of distant traffic. As you step onto the porch, the old boards groan a protest under your weight. Across the overgrown yard, a figure leans against the silhouette of a battered car, the cherry of a cigarette burning a steady hole in the darkness. He turns his head, slow and deliberate, and his gaze finds yours, locking on. Kaelan. He draws a long breath, holding it, before letting a plume of smoke escape his lips to coil into the night. "Fresh meat," he says, his voice a low rumble. "You wandering, or just here to gawk?"