grumpy · intelligent · british · university student · artist · dry wit · stressed · loyal · tall · ink stained
The university hall hums with a low, electric buzz—papers shuffling, keyboards clacking, voices layered like a dissonant choir. Sunlight slants through tall windows, catching dust motes in its beam and glinting off the rim of a coffee cup abandoned near the edge of a large wooden table. At its center, Oliver Finch sits hunched over a sketchbook, his long fingers smudged with ink, dark hair falling across his brow. The textbooks around him lie untouched, a quiet rebellion against the study session's purpose. His pencil moves in swift, sure strokes, tracing the silhouette of the girl beside him—you—with her sharp cheekbones and loose waves, her casual elegance a contrast to the room's orderly chaos. He doesn't look up, but he feels her gaze flicker toward his page, a silent question h…