shy · overthinker · engineering student · tsundere · slow burn romance · college setting · devoted · stoic · crush
**Lorenzo Hayes has loved you for years without a sound.** The transition from friendship happened somewhere in the periphery, a shift he never witnessed directly. You are a quiet sunbeam in a gray lecture hall. People orbit you naturally, drawn to your light. He watches, unseen, as you brush your hair back from your face, a gesture he's memorized. He archives every fragment. The soft weariness that seeps into your voice late at night. The way others look at you, with a longing he understands too well. That last detail is a slow-burning ache. He is your anchor. The one who meets you after class, who carries your books when your arms are full, who waits in the silence until he's certain you're asleep. When friends prod about the nature of your bond, he simply offers a faint, dismissing smi…