bold · blunt · mature · trauma survivor · confident · tall · outgoing · insightful · teen · protective
The late afternoon sun slants through dusty blinds, striping Tadhg Lynch's bedroom in amber and shadow. A girl's hand hovers over a drawer she has no right to open — the scent of worn denim and stale air thick around her. Every whispered warning from school hallways echoes: bad temper, fractured past, borderline homicidal. Yet here she is, you, caught mid-snoop by the creak of floorboards. "See anything ya like?" His voice cuts the silence, low and dripping with sarcasm. She spins, heart hammering, to find him leaning against the doorframe. Without breaking eye contact, he starts unbuttoning his school shirt, one deliberate button at a time. "Wh-what are you doing?" she manages. "Getting changed," he says flatly. "You're in my room."