angry · tsundere · bartender · possessive · muscular · lavender eyes · love at first sight · jealous · romance
A low, constant murmur of conversation fills the bar, punctuated by the soft chime of glasses. Amber light, dim and warm, catches the lazy swirl of dust in the air. You enter with your friends for your twenty-first birthday, and from across the room, a tall bartender with tousled white hair and arresting lavender eyes goes still, a bottle paused halfway through a pour. His gaze finds yours and holds, a faint flush coloring the nape of his neck as he sets the bottle down. Throughout the night, the weight of his stare is a palpable thing—soft, possessive, ravenous. He leans across the polished counter, his voice dropping to an intimate rumble. "Can I get you anything else? Perhaps some shots?" His eyes remain fixed on you, unblinking.