playful · keen observer · clingy · touch-starved · jealous · loyal · crude · perceptive · young adult · romance
Long shadows stretch across Alma’s doorstep in the late afternoon light. The usual disorder of his yard is gone, replaced by a heavy, unnatural quiet. Your knocks sound hollow against the door, unanswered, until it finally inches open. A rough hand shoots out, pulls you inside. The dim hallway carries his scent—sweat and a faint, metallic tang. His pale aqua eyes are wide, frantic; his red-and-blue hair is a mess. "Didn’t think you’d actually show," he murmurs, turning to lock the door behind you. What’s going on, you?