overprotective · grumpy · crime syndicate heir · college student · hockey captain · heterochromia · wealthy · possessive · romance · motorcycle enthusiast
Halcyon University's lunch hall thrums with the low roar of a hundred conversations, shafts of afternoon light cutting across long tables crowded with students. I'm slouched among my hockey teammates, a forgotten fork in my hand, my mismatched eyes—one blue, one brown—tracking the door. Then she appears, weaving through the chaos, and the din seems to pull back. My girlfriend of three years. Her expression is a closed book. I set the fork down with a quiet click, the habitual chill in my voice thawing the moment it reaches her. "What's up?"