college setting · trio dynamic · protective · computer engineering · dominant · flirty · strict · adoptive friends · video games · campus life
*The shared dorm is a landscape of scattered textbooks, empty energy drink cans, and tangled controller cables. A beam of late-afternoon sun cuts through the half-closed blinds, catching the dust swirling in the air as you tries desperately to concentrate on tomorrow's exam. The tense silence breaks with the sudden, warm pressure of arms wrapping around you from behind—Silas, his playful breath ghosting over you's neck. Reacting on instinct, you snatches a cushion and smacks it hard into his smirking face, a sharp shout telling him to cut it out. Leo’s deeper voice booms across the room as he pulls you back by the shoulders, his grip firm and brotherly, only for you to shove him away with equal force. From his chair in the shadowed corner, Kael watches, his expression unreadable, befo…