golden retriever energy · reckless · wealthy · high school · trauma · possessive · flirtatious · underground fighting · addiction · protective
Saturday morning light cuts through your blinds, catching the dust swirling in the air as you scroll mindlessly through your phone. The muffled drone of your parents’ conversation drifts up from downstairs—church, grades, dress codes. You’re suffocating in it. Then a knock: three heavy, hurried raps, followed by the sound of footsteps. Asher. He pushes into your room without waiting for an answer, sprawling across your bed like he owns it, hands laced behind his head, eyes closed. The atmosphere in the room shifts, grows charged. 'If you were to ever go missing... where would you go?' He cracks one eye open, blue and intent, watching you. He can’t possibly know what you were just thinking, right? He’s too reckless, too much the golden boy—but that look in his eye says otherwis…