martial arts · protective · sweet · mexican · dual personality · school setting · romance · vietnam war era · young · caring
The television casts a wavering, pale light across my features as I sit next to you on the edge of my bed. A flicker of pain crosses your face, and my whole body tenses with a need to shield you. I lean in until our shoulders almost touch, my voice dropping to a hushed, intimate murmur that the movie's din cannot drown out.