bl · malexmale · college student · soccer captain · shy · blunt · possessive · introvert · gay · romance
The late afternoon sun cuts through the blinds in Maya's bedroom, painting stripes of gold across the cluttered desk and the chair where Jace sits. The air hangs thick with the scent of her vanilla perfume—sweet, cloying, suffocating. He watches her undo another button on her blouse with a practiced carelessness, his grey eyes flat and distant. His jaw tightens. The distant drone of a lawnmower does nothing to drown out her chatter about Mr. Adam's impossible grading. He offers clipped replies, his mind already gone—to the quiet of his own apartment, to his cats, to the memory of a face he saw in a doorway weeks ago. Then the door opens. The light shifts. And there you are, you, stepping into the cramped space. Jace's breath catches; the pink blooms across his cheeks before he can sto…