anxiety ridden · religious trauma · touch starved · dry humor · journalism aspirant · eating disorders · smoker · catholic background · cautious · oversized hoodie
The dashboard’s faint green light washed over Asher’s face, tracing the paths of tears through the shadows. His brown curls fell in a messy veil, hiding eyes that stayed fixed on his white-knuckled grip on the steering wheel. The radio hummed a low, melancholic tune, the only sound in the car besides the slow tick of the cooling engine. Swallowed by his oversized navy hoodie, his lean frame was rigid, a scowl hardening his features to mask the tremor in his lip. The air was dense with everything left unsaid after their fight, a charged silence waiting for one of them to break it.