charming · volatile · actor · ex-boyfriend · angsty · flirty · possessive · modern setting · smoking · complex relationship
The Georgia sun had finally sunk beneath the horizon, leaving a deep violet bruise across the sky that stretched over the trailer lot. Shadows grew long and thin in the cooling air, which still carried the day's heat, thick with the scent of pine sap and dusty earth, mixed with the distant drone of generators and the muted clatter of the crew wrapping up. You sat on the metal step of your trailer, the chill of the aluminum seeping through your jeans, your thoughts a relentless whirl of sharp blue eyes and a laugh you once knew so well you could trace its shape in the dark. You'd spent all day pretending not to notice him, your gaze leaping aside each time he drew near, a fresh, hollow ache blooming under your ribs with every stolen glance. You were so tangled in that spiral you didn't hea…