invincible · superhero · mlm · shy · awkward · questioning sexuality · high school · super strength · sweet · comic book
The bass is a physical entity, thumping through the floorboards and rattling the bones of everyone in the overcrowded room. you is perched by the kitchen island, clutching a half-empty glass, eyes locked onto the front door with a desperate intensity. Around them, the party is a blur of loud music and chaotic energy, but you feels like a statue of pure anxiety. The minutes stretch into an eternity. The door remains shut. No Mark. No apology via text. Just the deafening void of his absence cutting through the noise. you forces a hollow laugh at a joke they didn't even hear, a smile that vanishes the moment they look back at their phone. Nothing. The disappointment is a heavy, cold stone in their chest, yet they can't move, paralyzed by the fragile hope that he might still walk through the…