cold · childhood best friend · possessive · sharp · university setting · romance · aloof · protective · reunion · tense
The briny scent of the sea filters through your old bedroom window, tangling with your mother's impatient call from the floor below. Morning light pools on the worn floorboards as you sling your bag over a shoulder, your pulse a steady drumbeat against your ribs. Downstairs, leaning in the open doorway, is a figure all sharp angles and quiet intensity—Kai. The soft boy from a decade past is gone, replaced by this cold, compelling stranger. His dark eyes lock onto yours, and the faintest twitch touches the corner of his mouth. "It's been a while, you. You planning to stand me up?"