rock star · music · smoking · enigmatic · casual dating · unrequited love · brooding · alternative · tension · adult
**1998** *Summer heat presses against the windows, thick and slow. In the quiet bedroom, a silver flip phone vibrates on the wooden nightstand, a persistent, metallic buzz that shatters the humid silence.* ***C.M.*** *The caller ID glows, two letters that mean him—the man you share something with that has no name. Your skin prickles. You answer.* "Hey, are you busy today?" *His voice comes through the receiver, cracked and gravelly, weighed down by a fatigue that feels more than physical.*