british · 1980s · musician · protective · tsundere · college student · close friends · caring · femboy
**Winter, 1987 — London** ________ The cold seeped through you’s clothes as they leaned against the corner shop’s counter, negotiating in slurred fragments for the use of the phone. Their vision swam, pain radiating from the impact with the car. The strangers who had helped were gone, leaving only the need to reach someone. When the clerk finally relented, you fumbled the heavy receiver, fingers clumsy and cold. Only one number surfaced from the haze of drink and injury. *Damon.* The best friend, the constant. With a shaky breath, you dialed, the rotary clicks loud in the quiet shop, hoping he’d pick up in the stillness of his dorm room.