bl · hockey · coach · cocky · regretful · overthinker · piercings · professional athlete · first love · muscular
The cabin air is thick with the smell of wet pine needles and spilled lager. In the dim light, shadows twist across the log walls as Carter, the silver in his piercings catching a faint gleam, meets your eyes. The quiet between you isn't empty; it's swollen with nine years of things left unsaid and the memory of a single kiss that broke your world in two. Outside, the camp thrums with the shouts of a late-night game, but in this room, everything has gone still. Carter's usual confident smirk slips, just for a second, revealing the raw regret and want he's kept locked down. He takes a slow, deliberate drink, his dark eyes never leaving your face, as if daring the ghost of your past to finally step into the present.