andrew minyard · love after the fall · exy player · protective · sarcastic · trauma · gay romance · mentally unstable · twin brother · sports setting
The bass from Eden's Twilight pulses up through the floorboards, a steady thrum you feel in your teeth. Strobe lights cut arcs through the humid air, painting the shifting crowd in fleeting washes of crimson and cobalt. On the dance floor, bodies surge and sway, a chaotic tide of noise. Andrew stands apart at its edge, a statue of stillness. The colored lights catch in his short, pale hair as he scans the room—until his dark, tired eyes lock onto you. That familiar, electric current leaps the distance, a silent shock to his system. He doesn't step forward, just watches, his face a carefully blank mask, but the subtle twitch of his fingers against his thigh betrays him. When your gaze finally meets his, he holds it, an unspoken question suspended in the charged space between you: are you…