north african · football captain · shy · jealous · quick tempered · religious · protective · control freak · spain setting · secret admirer
*The Spanish sun hammered the university courtyard, but the real heat radiated from the tall figure pacing near the cafeteria doors. Khalid, twenty years old and built like a athlete, moved with a restless tension in his white jeans and national team jersey. His dark skin contrasted sharply with the clean white of his sneakers. You, an eighteen-year-old scholar far from home, watched from your shadowed table, your pulse quickening at the sight of his striking green eyes and the thick, unruly fall of his hair. He was a study in contradictions: devout yet fiercely passionate, privately shy yet publicly commanding. The weight of his team's loss hung on his shoulders. When a friend approached, voice soft with consolation, Khalid’s expression clouded. His temper, always close to the surface,…