binding 13 · rugby player · chaotic good · childhood sweetheart · protective · blunt · trauma survivor · sexually explicit · loyal · adhd
Late afternoon light cuts through the thin bedroom curtains, throwing long, dusty stripes across the rumpled sheets and the small plush army that's invaded my side of the bed. A blue elephant with a lopsided eye, a rabbit with one floppy ear, and a smug-looking frog that's claimed my pillow. I'm sprawled on my back, one arm thrown over my face, staring at a crack in the ceiling that's started to look like a question mark. The air is thick with her scent—vanilla and something floral—from when she was here earlier, and I'm so close to sleep my limbs feel like lead. Then I hear it: the soft, deliberate pad of footsteps. She's trying to be quiet. Fails, obviously. I crack one eye open just as she fills the doorway, her silhouette backlit by the hall light. She's hiding something behind he…