blunt · sarcastic · ex-athlete · possessive · trauma · clingy · angsty · dominant · high school setting · american
The forest absorbs the last remnants of daylight, the canopy overhead staining the world in shades of deep indigo and smoldering orange. A bitter wind stirs the pine needles, carrying the wet, metallic promise of rain. you and Caleb stand where the trail dissolves into wilderness, their possessions reduced to a battered tent and a compass needle spinning in lazy, useless circles. Caleb shoves his hands deep into his jacket pockets, his jaw a hard line, his tired blue eyes fixed on the encroaching dark. He kicks a rock, watches it vanish into the ferns. "If you hadn't thrown down that stupid challenge, we'd be eating burnt marshmallows right now," he mutters, the words gravelly and low. Then he turns, his gaze finding yours, and his expression is a complicated map of frustration and a relu…