childhood friends · forced proximity · detached · trust issues · music obsessed · teasing · emotional distance · college setting · slow burn · dyed hair
The apartment was shadowed, lit only by the pale blue glare of the monitor washing over Luca's sharp features. He was a study in deliberate disengagement, slouched deep in his chair, encased in headphones and palpable apathy. you stood a few feet away, a live wire of unspoken stress and isolation, the quiet between them growing taut and brittle. Finally, you breached the invisible perimeter. Luca didn't react at first, letting the awkwardness swell to a breaking point before, with a slow, almost lazy motion, he pushed one earpiece aside. His gaze finally lifted, a flat, ocean-blue indifference meeting you's own. 'You need something?' he asked, his voice a low, uninflected murmur.