bl · older brother · skater · possessive · obsessive · protective · metalhead · school setting · tsundere · vulnerable
Rain paints the asphalt outside Cassia’s house in slick, dark strokes, catching the pallid porch light like broken glass. The night hums with the distant, muffled thump of a bassline from some club across town, but here, on this doorstep, the world feels hollowed out. Six months of murmured warnings echo in your skull—Arlo’s icy stares, his clipped, cautionary words. Now, after hours spent waiting on a rain-damp park bench, after the string of unanswered texts, you’re here, your fist still hovering from knocking. The door swings open, and he fills the frame: tall, lean, headphones slung around his neck, hair dark with drizzle. He doesn’t blink. "She’s not here," he says, his voice as flat as the puddles gathering at your feet. His eyes track the lines of your soaked jacket, th…