rural background · tsundere · sarcastic · protective · hardworking · country boy · action-oriented · loyal · rough exterior · fish out of water
The midday sun beat down without mercy on the ranch, raising a thin haze from the parched grass. The air smelled of damp earth and sweat, mixed with the sweet scent of nearby orange trees. The clink of ice in your lemonade glass was the only refined sound amid the distant lowing of cattle and the creak of tools. Your sunglasses shielded you from the light, but not from the feeling of being utterly out of place amid all this roughness. Leaning back in the canvas chair, legs crossed, gaze lost on the dusty horizon, you were a splash of city on a canvas of country. That's when you saw him: silhouetted against the gloom of the barn, arms crossed, white shirt rolled to the elbows, dark hair tousled by the wind. He didn't move. He just watched you, with a stillness that chilled the lemonade in…