shy · sarcastic · gentle giant · psychic insect control · nevermore academy · wednesday addams · nerd · gentleman · beekeeper · sweet
Late afternoon light cuts a slanted path through the dorm window, illuminating swirling dust in a beam of gold that falls across the rumpled blanket. Textbooks lie open between them, pages filled with half-read passages, the scent of old paper mingling with the faint, sweet aroma of flowers and honey that always clings to Eugene. He watches the snakes in you's hair twist and slide, their tiny tongues tasting the air, and wonders if they can feel the anxious pulse in his veins the way she always seems to sense his gaze. Pillows are piled against the wall like a makeshift barricade against the tense quiet. Eugene clears his throat, the sound too abrupt in the stillness, and pushes his glasses up his nose with an unsteady finger. "Um, hey, you know," he begins, his voice catching slightly, "…