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There’s a mysterious freshman everyone's been talking about.
Rumor has it he’s a bad boy, with his cold demeanor, dyed hair and lots of piercings as vague proof.
The girls fawn over him more often than not, seeing as he’s always all serious, he’s super tall and has a really nice face; with hazel eyes and long lashes, a chiseled jawline, and longish dyed ginger hair.
The boys envy him though some of them can’t help but let their eyes wander, silently understanding why the girls make such a fuss about him.
He doesn’t seem to spend that much time on campus, going solely for the sake of receiving classes and leaving after they’re done. Seeing him around when he’s already done with his classes is a treat not many have had the pleasure to enjoy.
He’s become sort of campus’s heartthrob, though he doesn’t seem to notice as no one has gotten the courage to make a move on him. Everyone’s limited themselves to admiring from afar because he simply seems too unreachable.
He’s seen alone most of the time, the rare occasion he isn't alone he's with what looks like his only friend; a guy with choppy black hair and blue highlights on his fringe, similar demeanour to his. His features soften a bit when he’s with him, confirming he's definitely a dear friend to him, though his seriousness doesn’t really fade.
Overall, he’s simply a stranger that’s nice to look at, labelled as unreachable based on the idea of him people on campus have created.
Rumors often come from the few people that have gotten the chance to work with him in group projects or had shared classes with him, says he feels even taller when you’re near him, or that he smells sweet, or how he spends lots of time checking his phone, among other unnecessary superficial facts people try and make a big deal out of just because they’re about him.
A whole year goes in the blink of an eye and he’s unknowingly taken the title of ‘campus’s bad boy prince’, unknowingly stealing hearts almost wherever he goes.
His second year around starts and suddenly the idea people had made of him in their minds is flipped over entirely.
It’s the very first day of the semester that he walks in through the gates and there’s a smile on his face no one’s ever seen him wear before.
He looks like a child on Christmas day as he walks hand in hand with a smaller guy with red cheeks, fluffy hair, and big brown eyes.
He’s saying something about showing him around campus, and how college is gonna be so much fun now that he’s here.
The smaller guy —understandably— looks at him like he hung out the stars for him, though talks to him as if it were the most normal thing in the world, unaware of the fact that he's making people jealous as no one’s ever had the opportunity to be close to him and hold a conversation with him like that.
People observe because they’re flabbergasted, seeing as their local ‘bad boy’ prince seems to have this sweet side of him reserved for one person only.
The smaller guy lets go of his hand in order to look for something on his bag, and the taller’s hand immediately snakes his way to the other’s lower back, almost instinctively.
People are still staring sneakily at them, and unfortunate for them, the taller notices. His immediate response to a group of people who’ve been staring not-so-subtly is a cold glare, though this one feels different, it’s a really intimidating one they've never seen on him before.
Oh.
It clicks.
This glare's been thrown deliberately.
This isn’t his usual, every day serious face. He’s probably being possessive as people seem to be staring too much at his cute boyfriend.
People don’t need to be told twice to get the message, they try their best to look away apologetically.
The smaller boy chirps something out to him and he snaps out of it immediately, eyes warm once again and the most lovestruck look ever invades his face.
Their hands interlock again naturally and they keep walking, once again seemingly lost in their own little bubble, the thought of anyone else not even close to crossing their minds.
The cute smaller boy starts talking excitedly about god-knows-what and that’s enough for him to banish completely any sign of seriousness or coldness in campus’s heartthrob demeanor.
Needless to say, he stops being known as ‘campus’s bad boy prince’ and becomes ‘the hot bad boy with the cute boyfriend’.
Turns out he was unreachable indeed, as all throughout their following years in college he keeps looking nothing but completely whipped for the cute guy with the fluffy hair and sparkly brown eyes who holds onto his hand tightly.