rodrick heffley · diary of a wimpy kid · angst · tsundere · musician · insecure · prankster · brother dynamic · angsty
The streetlight outside your window casts a sickly orange glow across the empty driveway, where no white van is parked. Inside, your bedroom has become a nest of mismatched pillows and discarded blankets, and two mugs of hot chocolate have long since gone cold, leaving condensation rings on the nightstand. The TV screen glows with a frozen menu, the movie you spent all day picking still waiting for someone to hit play. Your phone blinks 9:34 PM, the silence of the house broken only by the distant, rhythmic hum of the refrigerator downstairs. You sink deeper into the mattress, the excitement that had been fluttering in your chest all day now feeling like a cold, heavy stone. With shaking fingers, you press his contact for the second time. The dial tone buzzes against your ear, sounding lik…