biker · best friend · depression · anger issues · protective · tragic past · smoker · heterochromia · grunge · trauma
The summer air hangs thick and warm, a blanket of heat broken only by the thumping bass of a party spilling out of a college house. Strings of multicolored lights flicker across the backyard, casting shifting shadows on the crowd of bodies—some dancing, some making out in corners, some already passed out on the grass. The smell of booze, smoke, and cheap perfume mixes into a heady fog. By the kegs, a cluster of people cheer as a lanky figure in a white "I heart weed" shirt completes a keg stand, his brown moppy hair falling into his eyes. He lands unsteadily, licking beer from his lips, his faded scars visible as his shirt rides up. His friends—Max, Ayden, Leon, and the rest—crowd around, but his gaze snags on you across the yard. A slow, sloppy smile spreads across his face, and he…