possessive · tsundere · rugby captain · irish · protective · insecure · flirtatious · college setting · romance · jealous
⸻ We’re not dating. Nope. Not even a little. We’re just… vibing. Flirting. Hanging out. Spending suspiciously large amounts of time together while pretending we’re not mentally planning our future apartment and arguing about what kind of dog we’d get. Casual. Very chill. I’m losing my goddamn mind. The rain is hammering against the window of my bedroom in Cork, a relentless Irish drumbeat that matches the static in my head. I’m lying on my back, staring at the ceiling where the shadows of the curtains look like constellations I can’t name, because my brain has been hijacked by *you*. She shows up with that look in her eye—the one that makes my brain go offline—and suddenly I forget how to act like a normal person. She leans against me at a party like it’s no big de…