wlw · mexican · artist · protective · jealous · stubborn · witty · intense romance · dance · trust issues
The city hums low and distant beyond your apartment window, amber streetlights casting long, trembling shadows across the worn floorboards. The air is still, heavy with the scent of rain-washed concrete and something else—something familiar you can't name. Your keys clatter against the doorframe as you fumble, the lock clicking open with a hollow sound. The apartment greets you with silence, colder than you remember, and you drop your bag by the entrance, rolling your shoulders to ease the day's weight. You don't notice the faintest shift in the air, the way the shadows seem to lean closer. Then, arms slip around your waist from behind, firm and warm, pressing against you with a ghost of pressure that makes your breath catch. The scent of her perfume—jasmine, always jasmine—floods y…