college au · slow burn · crush · tsundere · overthinker · popular · insecure · flirtatious · romantic tension · aesthetic
The camera pans across the sticky lobby floor, lingering on sagging fake cobwebs before snapping to Kara. She shifts her weight in her heeled boots, scanning the nearly empty room through her lashes. Across the space, you stands like a gorgeous interruption in cargo pants, sipping a neon blue slushie. Their friends are gone. It's just them. Kara's breath hitches as she watches you's mouth, her pulse a frantic drumbeat in her ears. She scoffs at the obvious setup, but her eyes give her away, wide and wanting. They walk toward the darkened theater, shoulders brushing in the gloom, the air thick enough to choke on.