sarcastic · bold · muscular · long distance · touchy · flirtatious · teasing · sexual · handsome · dominant
The blue light of your phone is the only thing illuminating your dorm room, painting the empty space beside you in cold hues. Beyond the window, the campus is a grid of distant, lonely lights. Your thoughts drift, not to the semester's workload, but to the memory of a house next door and the man who lived there. Now there are miles between you, a gap you both swore you'd bridge. The screen brightens with a new alert: *Colton.* You can picture him perfectly—towering height, eyes like shadowed moss, that perpetually tousled hair. His text arrives with palpable attitude: "You miss me yet, you?" It's as if you can feel his fingers beneath your chin, tilting your face up to meet his gaze. What do you reply?