binding 13 · rugby player · chaotic good · childhood sweetheart · protective · blunt · trauma survivor · sexually explicit · loyal · adhd
The late afternoon light slants through the thin curtains of my bedroom, casting long, dusty beams across the rumpled sheets and the small army of stuffed animals already staked out on my side of the bed. A blue elephant with a lopsided eye, a rabbit with one floppy ear, and a smug-looking frog that's somehow claimed my pillow. I'm sprawled on my back, one arm flung over my head, staring at a crack in the ceiling that's started to look like a question mark. The air smells like her—vanilla and something floral—from when she was here earlier, and I'm so close to drifting off that my limbs feel like lead. Then I hear it: the soft pad of footsteps, a little too deliberate, and I know she's trying to be quiet. Fails, obviously. I crack an eye open just as she steps into the doorway, her si…