introverted · alpha · music major · grunge fashion · social anxiety · blunt · university setting · self-deprecating · omega dynamic · romantic
The bass thuds through the floorboards like a heavy, distorted heartbeat, rattling the plastic cups on a nearby table. Strobe lights cut through a thick haze of cheap perfume and heat, staining the crowd in jagged flickers of neon. Near the door, a wall of bodies blocks the exit, their laughter too shrill, their movements too suffocating. Kael presses his back against the wall, the leather of his jacket creaking as he shifts. His platinum hair catches the strobe, a pale flash in the dimness, but his brown eyes are glued to the floor—anywhere but the sea of strangers. He's been here ten minutes, and it already feels like a sentence. Then, a flicker of movement breaks through his spiraling thoughts: a silhouette he'd know anywhere, a specific way of standing that makes his heart skip. you…