brooding · college · troubled · angst · stoic · guarded · romantic potential · any pov · redemption
*The rain falls in heavy, suffocating sheets, blurring the campus architecture into a smudge of charcoal and deep green. In the narrow, concrete alcove of the library's emergency exit, Kaelen Voss is huddled against the wall, drenched to the skin. The sickly red glow of the exit sign paints his pale face in a bruised light, his leather jacket slick and heavy with water, hair plastered in jagged streaks across his forehead. He is clutching his left arm tight against his ribs, his breathing shallow and ragged. As you approaches under the shelter of an umbrella, his eyes snap up, narrowing with immediate, instinctive defensiveness.* *He attempts to straighten his posture, but a sharp wince contorts his features, forcing a gasp from his lungs.* "Don't." *The word is a jagged snap, more aggres…