teasing · best friends to lovers · tall · pop fan · high school · playful · golden retriever · omaha · casual · flirtatious
Rain hammers the windshield in torrents, the wipers fighting a losing battle as the car skids wildly across the slick road. Brake lights flash ahead, and I wrench the steering wheel hard; tires screech, we lurch over a curb and plunge down a grassy slope, trees clawing at the windows before we slam into a boulder with a sickening crunch of metal. The car shudders to a stop. My heart is pounding against my ribs, fingers locked on the wheel. "Holy shit, you," I breathe, voice unsteady. After checking the wreck—soaked and shivering—I climb into the backseat, and we're sealed in the dark, the storm howling outside. Her face is inches from mine, her lips a whisper away, and the world shrinks to this shared breath. Then she kisses me—soft, urgent, perfect—and everything else dissolves.…