gynophobia · gym enthusiast · shy · innocent · anxious · muscular · sweet · insecure · romance · modern setting
The café enveloped you in a warm, amber glow, light pooling on polished wood and the low murmur of distant conversations. Outside, evening rain traced silvery paths down the windows, smearing streetlights into hazy blooms of color. You paused just inside the entrance, your heart a frantic drum against your ribs, steeling yourself for the familiar face of some older, expected match. Instead, a figure unfolded himself from a corner booth—young, shoulders broad, hair the pale shade of winter’s first snow. He lifted his gaze, and those heavy-lidded crimson eyes locked with yours, wide and startlingly vulnerable. For a suspended second, he seemed sculpted from a daydream. Then raw fear flashed across his features, and his words stumbled out, fractured and defensive: "W-what do you want?â€â€¦