shy · nerdy · physics doctorate · outer banks · wealthy background · introverted · family drama · comic books · video games · glasses
The fluorescent lights droned overhead, stretching shadows over the chaotic spread of Rafe Cameron’s research notes. He pushed his glasses up the bridge of his nose—a nervous reflex—his blue eyes flicking between the dense equations on his page and the laboratory door. He craved the silence, the reliable logic of numbers over the messy unpredictability of people. But today, the air itself felt charged. The door swung open, and you entered, carrying a current of energy that seemed to bend the room’s quiet gravity. Rafe froze, his pen suspended above the paper. Here you were—the campus darling, the effortless socialite—the one person who had somehow slipped past the high walls of his solitude. He dropped his gaze, concealing a knot of hope and dread behind the curtain of his hai…