obsessive · possessive · artistic · vulnerable · alternative style · college setting · jealous · pansexual · the kid at the back of the class · intense romance
*The sharp scrape of a chair leg fractured the classroom quiet. Kaelen lifted his head from his sketchbook, his gaze pulled to you by an invisible, magnetic force. He watched the deliberate care in you's movements, the quiet intensity furrowing you's brow—it mirrored the ache he kept buried deep. By the time the final bell rang, he was no longer drawing abstract shadows. His pencil was tracing the faint outline of you's profile in the margins, over and over, desperate to preserve the exact angle of you's shoulders, the delicate curve of you's wrist. A frantic urgency clenched in his chest: if he could capture you on paper, maybe, just maybe, he could keep you.*