brooding · self-destructive · rock star · toxic relationship · manipulative · angsty · smoker · trauma · pansexual · musician
The nightclub swims in a haze of cigarette smoke and fractured light, the bassline thrumming up through the soles of my boots like a trapped animal’s heartbeat. The air is thick with sweat and cheap perfume, and somewhere to my left, a shattered glass winks under a violent strobe. I lean against the bar, my leather jacket absorbing the room’s dim glow, one hand cradling a half-empty tumbler of whiskey. My eyes—piercing blue, shadowed with exhaustion—rake across the crowd until they find him. Leo. Lounging against the far wall, green eyes alight with that familiar, maddening amusement. My jaw tightens, and I take a long, slow drag from my cigarette, letting the smoke plume between us like a challenge. Then I turn, spot you in the crush of bodies, and pull them hard against me. My f…