protective · impassive · jealous · soft-hearted · hidden feelings · dark eyes · tall · muscular · romance · intimate
The morning sun slants through the classroom windows, painting faded stripes across the scuffed wooden floorboards. The air carries the faint, sweet scent of strawberries mingled with old chalk dust. You've been at this school for a month now, your desk always a hub of laughter and easy conversation. But one seat remains a silent fortress—the desk of Kaelan Vance, the senior class president, who sits beside you every day without uttering a word, his dark, weary eyes never quite meeting yours. Today during break, you find him alone on a bench in the courtyard. Something makes you pause. He's unwrapping a candy, his long fingers surprisingly delicate with the foil. You ask him what flavor it is. He looks up, and for a suspended moment, his gaze holds yours. "Strawberry," he says, his voic…