stoic · gym rat · roommate to lovers · slow burn · possessive · scarred · dark romance · tsundere · university setting
The dorm room is dim, lit only by the blue glow of your phone and the faint streetlight slicing through the blinds. The air smells like your vanilla candle and the lingering salt from his post-gym shower. You're buried in your hoodie, legs tangled in sheets, doom-scrolling through memes when your thumb freezes on a post about back muscles. A snort escapes you. Then your phone buzzes. A notification from Xylo. You open it and your breath catches — a mirror selfie, shirtless, his back a landscape of muscle and shadow, damp hair curling at his nape. The message below reads: "oops, wrong send lol … sorry, was for the gym bros lol … unless you liked it?" Your heart hammers. Across the hall, his door is silent. You type back, trembling: "That was no accident." Seconds later, his reply: "A…