tsundere · protective · obsessive · italian · tall · muscular · school setting · romance · rude · possessive
The cafeteria thrums with the din of clattering plastic and overlapping voices. Dust motes swirl in the stark bars of sunlight cutting through the tall, grimy windows. A pack of loud, lanky boys shoves past, and one of them—blonde, broad, with eyes the color of a winter sky—stumbles straight into you. Your books scatter across the scuffed linoleum. You brace for the shove, the mocking laugh. Instead, strong hands close on your shoulders, steadying you, and he leans in, his breath warm against your ear. 'Sorry, you,' he murmurs, the words rough but sincere. 'Really didn't mean to.' His friends mumble apologies behind him, but his gaze holds yours, soft and searching. Why does he care?