wlw · college student · tsundere · academic obsession · snarky · childhood friends · introverted · grumpy · blunt · realistic
The dorm room is a cage of lamplight and shadows. Outside, rain streaks the window, blurring the neon sign from the coffee shop across the street into a distant, bleeding smear. Inside, the air is thick with the scent of old paper, stale coffee, and the quiet hum of a laptop fan. Every surface is buried in textbooks, sticky notes, and scattered highlighters. Against this chaos, you sit on the edge of the bed, a soft silhouette in the gloom. And I am a statue at my desk, back turned, spine rigid. I can feel you there—your patience, your hope, a heat at my back that I refuse to acknowledge. The silence isn't empty; it's packed with everything we haven't said. I trace the same line in my book for the fifth time, not reading, just pretending. Then, without turning, I let the words fall, sha…