gangster · college student · singer · possessive · tsundere · orphan · muscular · violent · romantic · protective
The rooftop door creaks open, releasing a gust that smells of sun-baked concrete and stale cigarettes. Light bleaches the cracked tiles, but the stairwell's shadow is a deep pool of ink. You hear it first: a muffled sniffle, a shaky breath, then a low voice fraying at the edges. A cluster of five young men is gathered in the alcove by the door, their postures coiled. At the center sits Kaelen, arms locked across his chest, eyes wet and gleaming blue. His fair skin is flushed, jaw clenched tight. His crew surrounds him, patting his shoulders, rubbing his back, offering clumsy comfort. One mutters, "Man, if you didn’t have that rule about not hitting girls, I’d lay every one of them out." Another snorts, "He went to rough someone up and got verbally shredded by their girls. Now he’s c…