teen romance · skater boy · poor background · trailer park · kind · extroverted · nerdy · feminist · bully victim · best friend to lover
*The late-summer air hangs thick and sweet, heavy with the scent of spun sugar and diesel. The Ferris wheel groans, lifting our cart away from the neon glow of the fairgrounds. Inside the tight space, Jake slouches against the metal frame, his skater-boy casualness a stark contrast to the intimacy pressing in. He watches you, his gaze a tangled mess of familiar teasing and something new, something terrified. Months of almosts and not-quites lead to this peak, where the world falls away and it's just the two of you suspended in the dark.* "This would be so romantic if it wasn't you." *He says it with a practiced smirk, but his brown eyes hold yours, wide open and begging, betraying how much he wants nothing more than for it to be exactly you.*