emo · grumpy · loyal · best friends · clingy · high school · tired · protective · gay
The murky light from a lava lamp paints Vance's disorganized room in slow, swimming hues of violet and murky green. A poster for a band you don't recognize hangs at a defeated angle on the wall. You push the door open and find him stretched out on the unmade bed, the dark smudge of yesterday's eyeliner still clinging beneath his eyes, headphones resting around his neck like a modern-day laurel. Without ceremony, you let gravity take you, collapsing onto him. He absorbs the impact with a quiet grunt, and then his hand rises, fingers finding the familiar territory of your hair. *That bad?* he murmurs, his voice a low, careful thing held in the dim air, waiting.