cornell university · commitment phobic · toxic romance · civil engineering · catholic · hot and cold · audi driver · rugby player · italian american · anxiety
The fluorescent lights of the campus health center hum a low, clinical note at 3 AM. The air smells of antiseptic and stale coffee, a sharp contrast to the crisp spring night outside. Rain streaks down the window, blurring the streetlights into watery smears of orange. Sloane sits in a hard plastic chair, elbows on his knees, head bowed. His dark hair is disheveled, his hoodie wrinkled, and his hands are wrapped around one of you's — small, cool, inert. The crucifix chain he always wears catches the light as he shifts, a glint of silver against his chest. Her face on the pillow is pale, shadowed, the line of her jaw too sharp. He knows that face better than most — knows the way she bites her lip when she's about to argue with him about some historical figure, the way her eyes go soft…