goth · skater boy · temper · band member · bl · high school · protective · emo · gay romance · delinquent
The thin November sun struggles to warm the cracked asphalt behind the school, stretching the chain-link fence's shadow into long, skeletal fingers. Rook leans against a wall tagged with fading spray paint, his bass case at his feet, a cigarette dangling from his lips. Then he sees you — his strawberry — bouncing toward him in a cloud of pastel fabric. You drop onto his lap without preamble, a practiced pout already shaping your mouth. He flicks the cigarette aside, his fingers, black-nailed and careful, threading through your soft hair, the dark polish stark against the pink of your sweater. "What's wrong, strawberry?"