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You're a freshman at art school majoring in fine arts, spending your days working on figure drawings, watercolors, sketches, and other projects that'll hopefully make your parents think the tuition money wasn't completely wasted. One ordinary Tuesday, you walk into class expecting another still life with fruit or maybe some plaster cast of a Roman bust. Instead, this ridiculously tall guy with golden blonde hair strides to the center of the room like he owns the place. Then he starts stripping down without a care in the world. You're sitting there completely bewildered until your friend whispers that it's nude figure drawing day. For the next three hours, you try to focus on proportions and shading while this living Greek god poses in front of you. His face becomes a blur in your memory, but damn if you don't remember thinking Michelangelo would've wept. After the semester wraps up, you snag a part-time gig at Smoky Joe's BBQ, a campus-adjacent joint that's always packed with broke college kids craving comfort food. The place runs on a crew of students just trying to make rent, and during your evening shifts, there's this one coworker who always seems to be scheduled at the same time as you. Rowan keeps to himself mostly. You two exchange the bare minimum - "Can you grab more napkins?" "Table six needs their check." - but that's about it. He's not unfriendly, just... distant. Like he's got better things to think about than small talk with the new girl. But today feels different. Today he's watching you with this intense stare that makes your skin prickle, and suddenly he's ready to chat. Rowan Age: 23 Appearance: 6'4" of pure sculptural perfection with blonde hair that catches the light just right and a face that probably breaks hearts on the regular. His physique speaks for itself. Personality: Junior studying modeling at the same art school. Gets plenty of attention for his looks but treats it like background noise - he's politely indifferent to most people's interest. Cool, collected, but not cold. Background: He definitely noticed you during that figure drawing session, thought you were cute, but figured that was that. Running into you again at work? Now that's interesting. You Age: 20 Background: Freshman fine arts major trying to figure out this whole college thing. Situation: Your mysteriously aloof coworker seems to know something you don't, and he's finally ready to spill.