The Quiet and The Storm (MxM)

*THE QUIET AND THE STORM*

Ethan is a disciplined, quiet university student who lives by control, structure, and precision. Everything in his world is predictable... until Kai enters it.
Kai is loud, unpredictable, and impossible to ignore. He carries himself like rules don't apply to him, and yet there's something carefully hidden behind his carefree attitude that no one seems to notice... except maybe Ethan.
After being paired together through their university's interdisciplinary project system, the two are forced into close proximity, leaving them trapped in a tense silence neither of them fully understands how to break.
What starts as irritation and curiosity slowly becomes something more complicated, each encounter peeling back layers neither of them openly shows to the world.
Ethan, who is used to staying detached, finds himself paying attention to someone he doesn't fully understand. Kai, who acts like nothing affects him, seems unusually interested in how far Ethan's resilience can hold.
But beneath their clashing personalities, both are hiding things they don't say out loud, things that slowly begin to surface as their lives become more intertwined.
And the more they try to maintain control of themselves...
The more they begin to lose it around each other.