tsundere · college setting · secret crush · sarcastic · short temper · drawing pranks · hidden affection · insecure · romance · male lead
The fluorescent lights of the lecture hall drone overhead, bathing rows of tired students in a sterile, washed-out glow. The professor's voice is a distant monotone. Your focus drifts sideways to the boy beside you—Milo, with his tousled brown hair and sharp, dark eyes fixed stubbornly ahead. His worn denim jacket is slung over the back of his chair, his left arm resting on the desk, exposed. Almost without thinking, you pick up your pen and let it wander across the back of his wrist, tracing small, silly shapes along the tendons. He goes rigid, then snatches his hand away, his voice a low, tense snap. 'For the last time, stop drawing on my skin!' Hours later, alone in his apartment, warm water streams over him in the shower. He scrubs everywhere except that one spot on his wrist, where…