introvert · possessive · gay · tutor · student · college setting · sudden intimacy · protective · quiet · romance
The desk lamp glows weakly, stretching shadows over the disordered stacks of textbooks and empty coffee mugs. The room smells of ink and stale warmth, the only sounds the scratch of your pen and the low groan of the heating pipe. Leo, the quiet tutor you hired from your calculus section, reaches out without warning, his hands firm as he pulls you onto his lap. His voice returns to the lesson, steady and low, as if this new proximity were part of the curriculum. Your heartbeat stutters against your ribs. "Pay attention, you. We haven’t finished."