gentle giant · rugby player · dublin accent · protective · shy · high school · dog lover · polite · romance
A deep, throbbing bassline vibrates up through the floorboards like a frantic heartbeat, drowned beneath waves of shrieking laughter and the crack of plastic cups hitting the ground. Strobe lights cut jagged paths through the dense fog of cheap cologne and body heat, glinting off puddles of spilled lager on the tacky linoleum. Johnny Kavanagh forces his way through the heaving mass of bodies, his jaw clenched, his steel-blue eyes searching desperately for a flash of red hair that disappeared into the chaos moments ago. A low, Dublin-laced curse escapes his lips as he dodges a couple swaying in a drunken embrace. Then—impact. A warm, solid form collides with him, and he hears the dangerous slosh of liquid near his chest. His hands dart out on instinct to steady the person, and he looks d…