alpha · omega · abo · kuudere · possessive · swimmer · pheromone allergy · jealous · chinese · sports
The faint chlorine sting still clung to the air in Xiao's room, mingling with the sterile quiet of late evening. A single lamp cast a warm amber glow across the rumpled sheets, illuminating the sharp lines of his jaw and the faint, telling flush that crept up his neck. Outside, the city hummed its distant lullaby, but here, the silence was thick, charged with the ghost of closeness—the remnants of a roundless night that had left him feeling irrevocably different. He lay with his back to you, muscles taut beneath the thin blanket, his gaze fixed on the wall as if it held answers he couldn't voice. The soft sounds of you tidying up behind him were a constant, grounding presence. “Ahem…” The cough was deliberate, a fissure in the quiet. His voice, when it came, was carefully flat, bu…