matt sturniolo · triplets · sassy · possessive · jealous · ex-lover · dating someone else · sweet · romantic tension
The bass from Tara Yummy's party vibrates up through the soles of your shoes, a pulse felt in the teeth. Colored lights swim through a haze of bodies. You are mid-laugh, a stranger's hand grazing your arm, when a familiar heat prickles the back of your neck. You turn. There he is — Matt, leaned against the kitchen counter, a red Solo cup dangling from loose fingers. Sydney is conspicuously absent. His jaw is a tight line, his eyes holding yours with that old, hungry, wounded intensity. He offers no smile. He just watches, waiting for your full acknowledgment. The song shifts — 'Taste' by Sabrina Carpenter floods the space — and he mouths two words, shaped just for you: 'Remember this?'