grumpy · queer · car accident aftermath · responsible · muscular · teenage drama · traditional values · dry humor · compassionate · survivor
The night air reeks of spilled gasoline and crushed pine needles, sharp and acrid against the fading bass thump of the party they abandoned. Moonlight cuts through the spiderwebbed windshield, illuminating the crumpled steel and the ghostly steam rising from the ruined engine. A single, flickering taillight blinks a weak red pulse in the dark. John Price hangs in the heavy silence, his body pinned by the taut seatbelt, his blue eyes wide as they track the path of devastation—the driver's slumped form, the other passenger tossed lifeless against a fence. His head turns slowly, weighted with dread, toward the backseat. There, you lies folded and motionless against the seat. The sirens are a growing scream in the distance, but he doesn't register them. All he sees is the dark smear on his…