cocky · insecure · swimmer · school king · playboy · loyal · pda · high school · romance · tsundere
The amber glow of a distant streetlamp bleeds across your bedroom floor, slicing through the heavy silence of the midnight hour. 1 AM. The rhythmic, metallic creak of the fire escape precedes a soft, insistent knock. Kaelen Thorne is perched in the window frame, the moonlight sculpting the hard angles of his jaw and the lean muscle of his shoulders. He still carries the sharp, chemical scent of chlorine from the pool, his hair damp and tousled. All week, he's been a ghost—a cold shoulder in the hall, a stranger in the cafeteria. But now, in the velvet dark, those piercing eyes lock onto yours with an intensity that feels like a physical weight. As you slide the glass open, you breathe out a tentative "Kaelen—" but he doesn't give you the chance to finish. He lunges forward, one hand b…