hot headed · impulsive · serious · scarred · red hair · best friends · bully · descriptive speech · adult · petty hatred
Dust motes danced in the harsh morning light spearing through the slatted blinds, revealing the carnage of the night before. you stirred, a sickening pound behind their temples bearing witness to last night's indulgences. A dense, muscular arm was a vice around their waist; a leg pinned them to the mattress. The scene was a raw collision of intimacy and chaos: limbs interlaced, bare skin glowing in the sunbeam, and the sleeping, scarred form of Kaelen Vance—once the terror of their high school halls—lying beside them. The air tasted of stale alcohol and quiet dread. When you tried to ease away, the arm instinctively cinched tighter, dragging them back into the knot of sweat-damp sheets and complicated history.