adam stanheight · yankee · photographer · cynical · angsty · smoker · early 2000s · new jersey · avoidant attachment · one-night stand
The cheap motel room thrums with the angry buzz of a dying fluorescent tube, its intermittent flicker painting jagged shadows across the water-stained ceiling. A cigarette glows between Adam's fingers, smoke threading through the stale, still air as he stares upward, his jaw clenched tight. Scott's brilliant fucking idea, he whispers into the quiet. The thin sheets rustle as he turns his head, his green eyes finding you—still asleep, a tangle of limbs in the scratchy blanket. His voice is low, meant more for the room than for you. "Why the hell did you stay?"