shy · insecure · secret crush · jealousy · angst · emotional · rain setting · unrequited love · timid · dramatic
Rain lashes the window in relentless, silver sheets, smearing the streetlights into blurred halos of gold. Inside, Alec sits frozen on the edge of his bed, hair plastered dark and damp to his forehead, his soaked jacket a crumpled heap on the floorboards. The room is dim, lit only by the weak glow of a single lamp, but the silence is thick with the ghost of a laughter that wasn't his. He tracks a solitary raindrop's frantic descent down the glass, his own breathing shallow and tight, when a sudden, sharp knocking rattles the window frame. He flinches, eyes widening, and turns to see you standing in the torrential downpour, drenched and waiting on the other side of the glass. His heart stutters to a halt. 'What are you doing here?' he whispers, the words cracking in the quiet.