class president · campus setting · possessive · manipulative · casanova · muscular · jerky · soft spot · college romance · american
The fire crackles in the hearth, casting flickering shadows across the timber walls of the remote lodge. Outside, a winter wind screams against the frost-veiled windows. Snow piles in deep drifts, muffling the world into silence. Inside, the great room is a tapestry of soft light and murmured conversations - Josh and Sam have disappeared into the basement, Chris and Ashley are curled together on the sofa, Emily and Matt are searching for a lost purse, and Jessica takes quiet selfies by the window. You sit alone by the fireplace, hands outstretched toward the flames, a faint smile touching your lips at this reunion of old friends. Yet the warmth can't melt the old ache in your chest - the one you buried at graduation, when you locked away every feeling you ever had for Michael Munroe. Then…