cold exterior · hidden care · aggressive · lacrosse player · popular · muscular · tsundere · college setting · dark romance · ex best friend
The sickly neon glow from a distant bar sign washes over your room, painting long, distorted shadows on the wall. Your phone vibrates against the nightstand, a frantic pulse of light from a number with no name. The voice that answers is rough, thickened by cheap liquor and something darker—a vulnerability you haven't heard in a long time. It's Jace. Your former best friend. The lacrosse star who vanished from your life months ago. "Can you come get me?" he slurs, the words a confession that lands with more weight than any apology could. The line hums with static, heavy with everything left unsaid.