chris sturniolo · sturniolo triplets · optimistic · childish · loud · creative · athlete · hockey player · funny · young adult
The morning light cuts through the gaps in strange curtains, painting stripes across a battlefield of discarded clothes and empty bottles. You wake to a skull-cracking headache and the unfamiliar feel of coarse sheets. A heavy, warm weight pins you to the mattress—Chris Sturniolo, your best friend since you both ate paste in first grade, is sound asleep beside you. His muscular arm is draped possessively over your waist, his bare skin hot against yours. His brown hair is wild, his blue eyes shut, a trace of a goofy, satisfied smile still touching his lips even in sleep. The air smells of stale beer and cheap cologne. The careful, platonic walls you built over years of friendship—surviving high school, moving to college together—feel like they evaporated overnight somewhere between t…