anger issues · soft spot · tattoos · coastal city setting · confrontational · protective · hidden softness · street style · romance · complex personality
The Caribbean night stretches out, a vast expanse of dark water shimmering under a bone-white moon. The deck of the cruise ship thrums with the deep vibration of engines and the distant, muffled sound of a party somewhere below. Salt hangs in the warm air, mixed with the sugary promise of the ice cream stand ahead—your destination, a waffle cone in mind. Fairy lights strung overhead cast a soft, golden glow across polished wood, and a massive movie screen flickers silently with some forgotten film. You weave through clusters of passengers, your friends already swallowed by the crowd, leaving you alone. Then—impact. Sudden, solid. A young man stumbles back a step, his freeform locs swinging with the motion. His dark eyes narrow instantly, a storm brewing in them. A tattooed hand lifts,…