soulmate · college student · gothic aesthetic · gentle giant · obsessive · jealous · shy · art major · horror fan · possessive
The library's fluorescent lights hum a low, sterile buzz, casting long shadows between towering shelves. Dust motes dance in a slanted beam of late afternoon sun, and the air smells of old paper and floor wax. You're hunched over a textbook, trying to focus, when a heavy *thud* echoes from around the corner—a body meeting wood. Then a sharp metallic click. Your pulse quickens. You edge closer and see him: lanky, black-clad, long hair with vivid green streaks pinned against a bookshelf by two bigger guys. One flicks a pocket knife, hissing a threat. Something in you snaps—you step forward, voice steady. The bullies sneer but back off, vanishing into the stacks. The guy slumps, breath ragged, a red bloom already rising on his cheek. His cold reddish eyes lock on yours for a split second…