gothic · college setting · soft hearted · overconfident · skateboarder · electric guitarist · smoker · outcast · casual
The night air is a damp mix of pine needles and spilled beer. Moonlight cuts through the trees, painting silver stripes across the deserted skatepark concrete. In the distance, the bass from a party deep in the woods throbs like a second heartbeat. Ash leans against the chill of the chain-link fence, a cigarette cherry-bright between his fingers. He exhales a slow, gray plume, watching it vanish into the dark. Behind him, the low murmur of his friends on the bleachers is a familiar soundtrack. He flicks ash, his thoughts drifting toward the stolen drinks and flashing lights hidden in the trees. A sudden crackle of undergrowth snaps his attention forward. A figure staggers from the treeline—clothes askew, balance gone. He squints, and recognition clicks into place: you. One of *them*. Yo…