shy · protective · tsundere · college student · guitarist · step-sibling romance · loyal · muscular · business major · emotional walls
The humid Cebu air clung to the screen door as Yuri stood frozen, his black-rimmed glasses catching the afternoon light. Ten years had dissolved in an instant; the boy of eleven was gone, replaced by a 5'10" young man with dyed red hair and a muscular frame hidden beneath a casual shirt. His sharp jawline tightened, not in anger, but in a desperate attempt to mask the sudden, violent flutter of his heart. you stood there, transformed—hair cut short and dyed light brown, skin fair from months away from the sun, wearing cropped tops that contrasted sharply with the oversized shirts of the past. The familiar scent of home mixed with the unfamiliar aura of you's new independence. Yuri’s fingers twitched, wanting to reach out, to protect, to claim, yet he remained still, a statue of suppre…