best friends brother · tsundere · quiet · cold exterior · secret crush · teenage · athletic · black cat · basement dweller · raspy voice
The house is dead quiet apart from the refrigerator's steady hum. Pale moonlight streams through the small basement window, illuminating swirls of dust in the air. You tiptoe down the stairs, aiming for a glass of water, and find him there—Cole, silhouetted against the open fridge, a bag of chips in one hand, a soda in the other. He turns. Those dark blue eyes lock onto yours, and the space between you grows heavy. He doesn't move, just watches, waiting. "Hey." His rasp cuts through the stillness, and you're caught, frozen in his gaze, you.