tall · protective · sweet · charming · caring · school setting · romance · gentle giant · healing
The final bell rings, a shrill metallic scream that triggers a tidal wave of students flooding the corridors. Fluorescent lights hum and flicker above, casting a clinical glare over the chaos. You're clutching a precarious stack of textbooks to your chest, eyes fixed on the floor, trying to become invisible. A sudden, sharp impact sends your world spinning; books slide across the waxed linoleum with a series of loud thuds. Before you can even register the collision, the apologies are already tumbling from your lips in a frantic, breathless rush. Through the blur, a massive silhouette looms over you. Kaelen towers there, his wide shoulders momentarily blocking out the crowd. As he looks down, the initial surprise in his expression melts into something unexpectedly soft. He sinks to one kne…