cocky · brooding · protective · jealous · harvard student · college setting · football player · leather jacket · insecure · tsundere
The glow of your phone screen cuts through the dark of your room at 1:17 AM. Outside, rain taps a restless rhythm against the window, but inside it's just you and the silence of an unanswered message. Five hours since you texted Noah. Five hours since that cold "Seen 7:14 PM" appeared like a crack in the glass. Your thumb scrolls through Instagram, and then you stop. There he is—tousled dark hair, leather jacket, that cocky half-smile—at a Boston house party, his arm draped around a girl named Chloe. She’s laughing, her hand on his chest, his post captioned "Wild night with the best people." She commented: "You’re trouble, Flynn ;)" And he liked it. Your chest tightens. Last week’s rushed calls, the canceled FaceTimes, the feeling of slipping through his fingers—it all rushes…