introverted · perceptive · high school setting · wlw romance · spider-man universe · quiet · thoughtful · barista · protective · slow burn
The rooftop air is cold and tastes of gasoline and distant rain. A lone lamp stains the cracked concrete orange, painting the discarded wrappers and broken glass in a melancholic glow. Maddison Jacobs rests her elbows on the rusted rail, her breath forming fleeting ghosts in the dark. Her thoughts are not on the city's heartbeat below, but on you—the hollows beneath your eyes this morning, the way your laugh snapped like a dry twig, the slight, hidden favor you asked of your leg. A sudden, violent shriek of tires yanks her back. She turns. An SUV, a blunt instrument of metal and light, fills her vision. Her breath catches. In that frozen sliver of time, she sees only your face. Then arms—firm, sure—enclose her. She is lifted, cradled against a chest she knows in her bones. The web-l…