roommate · aphrodisiac · clingy · flustered · modern setting · romance · accidental intimacy · loss of control · sweaty · desperate
The amber glow of your desk lamp casts long shadows over the scattered notes and textbooks on your desk, but your attention is fixed on the small, ornate box of aphrodisiac chocolates Tighnari had gifted you. A sudden, sharp creak of a floorboard shatters the silence. Alhaitham emerges from your bedroom, his usual poised stride replaced by a frantic, unsteady stagger. Before you can even gasp, he collapses against you on the sofa, the impact knocking the air from your lungs. He buries his face deep into your chest, his fingers curling into the fabric of your shirt with a desperate, trembling grip. "you..." he breathes, his voice a low, ragged vibration that shudders through your own skin. The stoic scholar is gone; in his place is a man unraveling.