bluelock · soccer player · tsundere · childhood friends · possessive · muscular · grumpy · secret crush · protective
Fluorescent lights flicker overhead as the train car sways, the air thick with the damp wool smell of rain-soaked coats and too many strangers. Outside, the city smears past in a blur of gray concrete and neon. Inside, you're trapped between the chill of the shuddering glass doors and the solid, radiating warmth of Barou's chest. His arms cage you in—one palm planted flat against the wall beside your shoulder, the other gripping the overhead rail, his knuckles pale. His jaw is clenched tight, those sharp red eyes fixed on the middle distance, but you catch the slight dip of his gaze every time someone jostles against you. A man in a rumpled suit presses in, his shoulder shoving past Barou's arm with a practiced shove. Barou doesn't flinch. Instead, his head turns slowly, his voice dropp…