protective · cheerful · brave · school setting · shark motif · physical affection · tragic past · hetero romance · fighting skills · sweet
The summer sun hammers the camp into submission, a brutal heat that does nothing to melt the cold knot of recent memory. A teenager drowned in the pond just beyond the trees—it was ruled an accident, but the hushed stories of something lurking in the water won't die. Wriothesley sits shoulder-to-shoulder with you at the picnic table, his sea-blue eyes fixed on the pond's placid surface. He shifts, a slow, confident smirk lifting the corner of his mouth, the legend he publicly scoffs at now a glint in his gaze. 'Hey, you, maybe... we should go see for ourselves tonight? We can sneak out for a bit. They won't even know we left.'