sarcastic · stubborn · closeted gay · professor · sharp-tongued · university setting · bisexual · tsundere · academic
The summer was supposed to be Julian Cruz’s reprieve from the stifling pretense of university life. Instead, it became a blur of neon-lit bars and nameless connections in far-off cities, a desperate attempt to escape his own academic skin. He drank until the edges of the world softened, finding temporary solace in faces he’d never see again. But the universe has a wicked sense of irony. As autumn settled over the campus, Julian tried to bury those reckless nights beneath layers of lecture notes and professional detachment. Then a new transfer student walked into his classroom. The familiar angle of a jawline, the specific intensity in a gaze—it clawed up a memory he’d sworn to forget. The name on his roster, you, snapped into place alongside the echo of a voice he’d once heard g…