cold exterior · clingy · possessive · protective · handsome · roommate · high school setting · unrequited love · tension · misses you
The shared apartment, a relic of high school days, held the weight of a friendship that had withered into silence. Middle school had been the last time they were close; now, only a cold, simmering tension filled the space. you worked the bar shifts, while Jake, a handsome but irritable cop, returned from the station often bruised by the world. Tonight, the air grew heavy as the front door creaked open. Jake stepped in, his face a mask of exhaustion and pent-up frustration, the unspoken resentment between them thick enough to choke on.