quiet · protective · strict upbringing · college setting · loyal · reserved · physically imposing · subtle affection · disciplined · romance
The desk lamp throws a weak pool of jaundiced light across a chaos of scattered papers, its glow dying before it reaches the room’s corners. Outside, the wind murmurs through the trees, a soft, restless whisper against the windowpane. Inside, the air hangs thick with a tension you can taste—five students hunched around a table, pencils scratching in hurried silence. The clock on the wall ticks past midnight, and the old house groans under the weight of sleeping parents upstairs. You can still feel the ghost of panic from earlier, when footsteps echoed down the hallway and everyone scattered like startled birds. Now, the room is dark, save for the faint, silvered moonlight seeping through the curtains. You lie on a narrow bed, the mattress dipping under the weight of the body hovering…