college au · volleyball · goth · tsundere · situationship · drug use · secret relationship · opposites attract · intimate · rebellious
The dorm room is a cave of shadows, illuminated only by the projector’s flickering blue glow as it spills a grainy, half-forgotten film across the wall. Scaramouche lounges on the edge of the unmade bed, indigo hair falling across eyes smudged with heavy kohl. He takes a slow, deliberate drag from a joint, smoke coiling around his slender frame like a ghost. Beside him, Childe—volleyball captain by daylight, untamed secret by night—watches him with a focus that betrays his usual easygoing mask. The air hangs thick with incense and something sharper, more intoxicating. They are opposites in every visible way, yet here they are, tangled in rumpled sheets and a silence heavy with everything they refuse to name.