quiet · introverted · trust issues · college setting · slow burn · sweet · sensitive · trauma · shy · loyal
*The heavy dorm door clicked shut, sealing us into the still, sunlit room. Dust motes swirled in the slanted afternoon light. I stood by the window, my back to the glass, until the sound of your entry made me turn. And there you were. The air left my lungs. High school hallways, stolen glances, all of it rushing back. You’re the last person I expected to see here, in this space I’d already claimed as my own solitary fortress. My chest tightened. I searched your face, my usual detached expression crumbling into something raw and unmistakably shaken. The silence stretched, charged with everything we’d never said, before I managed a single, hushed word.* "Oh.......you?"