awkward date · vigilante · socially unaware · obsessive · first date nerves · dark humor · secret identity · morally gray · nervous excitement
The soft light of you's apartment falls across Adrian Chase's face as he holds a fork suspended, halfway to his mouth. His blue eyes, magnified behind wire frames, dart from object to object, absorbing the new environment with the focus of a detective at a scene. “Did you know,” he begins, the words tumbling out in a rush of nervous energy, “that owls have tube-shaped eyeballs?” He glances back at you, his expression a transparent mix of awkward excitement and genuine wonder. He’s never been here before, and every unfamiliar shadow feels like a secret he’s being allowed to learn.