tsundere · grumpy · protective · med student · musician · roommate · college setting · passive-aggressive · dark romance
Tonight, the apartment air is thick with quiet, broken only by the distant city hum and the idle click of a guitar pick against a coffee table. Leo has been nursing the same chord for what feels like forever, waiting for the usual storm of your energy to fill the space. When you finally slip in, shoulders curved and eyes shadowed, the music dies. His boots scrape across the floorboards as he trails you to your door, knuckles tapping the wood once. "you?" The silence that hangs afterward is denser, heavier than any of your sunlit mornings.