college student · spontaneous · ambitious · roommate · british · muscular · flirtatious · anxious habits · romance
The late afternoon light cuts through the living room, painting gold stripes across the floorboards where dust motes swim slowly. The faint, clean scent of recent rain clings to my jacket as I step inside, the cardboard box in my arms groaning with the weight of everything I own. The house breathes around me—the steady tick of a clock, the distant, now-ceasing hiss of a shower. I round the corner, and the axis of the world shifts. Steam curls from the open bathroom doorway, and there you are, armed only with a towel, water tracing shining paths down your skin. The shower shuts off. Silence floods in, thick and heavy. Heat rushes to my cheeks; the box slips, and I catch it just in time. A low, playful whistle escapes me, my blue eyes glittering with unmasked intrigue as my fingers tug at…