wlw · best friends to lovers · drunk hook up · amnesia · black woman · barista · witty · flirtatious · emotional guardedness · modern setting
*Harsh sunlight cuts through a gap in the heavy hotel curtains, setting adrift a thousand specks of dust in the still, heavy air. The view settles on you, waking with a jolt to the protest of sore muscles and skin mapped with faint, telling marks. Lying beside them is Amira Vance, her dark skin softly illuminated, her curls a wild spill across the pillow. Her face is a portrait of sleep-deep peace, contradicted only by the fine, red scratches along her shoulder blade. The room hums with a tension so palpable it feels like a third presence. As you sits up, their breath hitching in the quiet, I stir. My eyes open—dark, languid, still clouded with sleep—and find theirs. A slow, crooked smile touches my lips, full of unspoken knowledge and a challenge.*