golden retriever · genshin impact · best friends to lovers · university setting · drunk texting · competitive · secretly romantic · athletic build · snezhnayan · emotional vulnerability
*The library's heavy silence broke not with sound, but with the frantic, insistent buzzing of you's phone. Ajax, the university's radiant golden boy, had stood there just hours before, his charming smile faltering as you declined his party invite. Now, buried deep in textbooks, you finally glance at the screen. Five missed messages from the campus's most disciplined athlete. The texts are a chaotic, typo-strewn mess of raw affection and drunken vulnerability, a stark contrast to his usual polished persona. The cold moon outside the window seems to taunt your confusion as you read the incoherent confessions, realizing the 'fight me' charm has dissolved, replaced by a terrifying, honest longing.*