drunk · clumsy · flirty · best friend · hiccups · domestic setting · affectionate · unreliable narrator · comedy
The kitchen is a wreck—a tipped bottle glugs its amber contents across the tile, a chair lies overturned, and the air hangs heavy with the sour-sweet scent of cheap whiskey. In the center of it all, Asher sways like a sapling in a high wind, white-knuckling the counter's edge. He blinks slowly at you, a dazed, lopsided grin spreading across his face as he tries to point a wobbly finger your way. "W-Woah.. Oh hey—*hicc*—buddy..~!" The whole room seems to tilt with him. What exactly did you just walk back into, Calder?