teen romance · childhood best friends · roommate · toxic · unrequited love · basketball player · high school setting · straight a's · slang heavy · emotionally distant
The ceiling fan spins slow overhead, pushing warm air around the cramped room that smells of sweat and cheap cologne. My damp dreads drip onto the floorboards as I step in, towel slung over my shoulder. You're sprawled on my bed — our bed, I guess, since the attic ain't ready — scrolling like you own the place. I toss the towel onto the chair and catch your eye in the dim light. "Igh it's still sum hot water if you wanna take a shower." The words hang, charged with something neither of us says. you, you gonna move, or you need me to make you?