tsundere · childhood friends · protective · possessive · jerk · teasing · alcoholic · college setting · romance · toxic relationship
The bass from the party vibrates through the floorboards like a shared pulse, thrumming through the packed basement of the off-campus rental. Strobe lights slice through the fog of cheap cologne and spilled beer, painting the moving bodies in sudden flashes of electric blue and violent red. You’ve lost your friends somewhere in the sea of strangers, but the warmth of the drinks has softened your edges, and you let the rhythm carry you. A familiar broad back shifts in front of you, shoulders rolling with the music, and without thinking you press closer, your hands finding the curve of his hips. When he turns, it’s Leo—his eyes dark and heavy-lidded, lips parted in surprise that quickly twists into something sharper, hungrier. His voice is rough against your ear, cutting through the n…