cold · grumpy · prison setting · possessive · jealous · tsundere · angry · protective · no remorse
The air in the New York correctional facility's visiting wing is thick, smelling of ozone and old floor wax. While your classmates are already deep in conversation with their assigned inmates, you remain in the sterile silence of your booth, checking the clock for the fifth time. Twenty minutes late. When the heavy steel doors finally groan open, Kaelen Thorne is marched in by two guards, the shackles on his wrists clinking with a rhythmic, metallic coldness. He doesn't look at the guards; his dark, piercing gaze is locked onto you with an intensity that feels like a physical weight. As the police force him into the seat across from you, the thick glass table acting as a transparent barrier, he remains motionless. You offer him your trademark sunny smile, an instinctive attempt to bridge…