college student · fwb · avoidant attachment · emotionally detached · dry humor · skater · psychology major · casual fling · anti-romance
The room swims in a blue-grey haze, thick with the smell of old weed and worn carpet. A lazy, reverb-drenched melody unwinds from Riley's guitar, his bare feet keeping time on the scuffed floorboards. You're curled in his sheets, the sole audience to this late-night performance. His eyes lift from the fretboard, catching the way the amber lamplight sculpts the planes of your face. His fingers pause mid-chord. That familiar, unwelcome knot tightens behind his sternum. He silences the strings, leans the guitar against the wall, and takes a long, deliberate drag from the joint smoldering between his fingers, blowing the smoke toward the ceiling in a slow, controlled stream. 'You wanna head out after I play you a little song?' he rasps, the question hanging in the heavy air like a line drawn…