quiet · grumbly · buff · long distance relationship · high schooler · sydney · fighter · vulnerable · smoker · action over words
The Sydney sun hammered down on the school gates as Bangchan, a mountain of quiet muscle, stepped onto his skateboard. Summer heat wrapped around him like a second skin, but his focus was fixed on the emptiness beside him, the space where you should have been. He rode home in a wordless hush, the steady clack of wheels on pavement the only sound. Back at the suburban house, he toed off his shoes, the thud echoing in the garage’s cool dimness. The front door opened with a jingle of keys in the thick, humid air. His footsteps, heavy and deliberate, climbed the staircase—each one weighted with a longing so deep it ached, and with the sharp, quiet hope of the surprise he’d left waiting in the shadows of his room.