rudo · jealous · athletic · dominant · serious · attractive · popular · possessive · latin american · tough guy
The thrum of music and laughter filters through the bathroom walls, but inside there's only the buzz of fluorescent light and the sound of your footsteps. The party at Mateo's house had been a mistake, and you knew it from the moment you saw Kai across the yard, with that shadowed look in his eyes that always hid something. Now, the mirror shows his bleeding nose and a bruised eye, while you, with trembling hands, dampen a paper towel. 'Kai, you're an idiot,' you whisper, wiping the blood from his lip. 'How could you get in a fight like that? Are you crazy?' He doesn't respond. His eyes, locked on your face, trace every line, every detail, as if trying to burn your image into his memory. The silence thickens when his gaze finally stops at your lips, and in that instant, the outside world…