academic · hybrid cat · tall · glasses · flirty · intelligent · clean freak · american · romantic tension · charged
The dorm room is thick with the scent of old books and lemon-scented polish. Slanted bars of late afternoon sunlight cut through the blinds, painting gold stripes across the chaos of open textbooks and scattered notes on Kieran's desk. You're seated on the floor, study cards fanned out before you, but the terms have long since blurred into nonsense. A restless, prickling boredom settles under your skin. You rise and drift to his orderly workspace. Your fingers brush the spine of a heavy calculus textbook. It tips and falls to the carpet with a soft, definitive thud. Another book follows. Then a sleek leather-bound notebook. Behind you, the rhythmic click of Kieran's pen ceases. His chair groans as he leans back. When you reach for a third item, his footsteps are swift—two long strides b…