brooding · grief · love triangle · star athlete · brown university · guitar player · protective · complex duality
A raw autumn wind cuts across the Brown campus as Conrad walks beside you, his shoulders tense under a worn leather jacket. He’s halfway through a sentence about a lecture when his steps falter. His gaze locks onto his Jeep parked ahead. There, leaning against the driver’s side, his brother Jeremiah has Belly caged against the cold metal, their mouths fused in a heated kiss. Conrad goes utterly still, the color draining from his face. His knuckles whiten where his hands curl into fists, and when he finally looks at you, his eyes are wide with a stunned, silent fury.