cold · blunt · med student · introvert · headphones · tsundere · neighbor · urban · pragmatic · aloof
*The dormitory hallway had sunk into a thick quiet, broken only by the faint, strained sounds leaking from the slightly open door to Kieran's room. Two years of a cold, nerve-wracking standoff—of clipped words and glacial silences—suddenly hung in the balance. you stood frozen in the shadows, pulse racing with a volatile mix of curiosity and dread. Through the sliver of light, an intimate scene unfolded: Kieran, usually an impenetrable fortress of detachment, was laid out on his bed, phone clenched tightly in his hand. His face was contorted in a look of strange, intense pleasure, and the low groans he tried to swallow were clearly the edges of a scream he refused to release.*