nurturing · protective · outgoing · high school · sleepover · cuddling · empathetic · witty · best friends · teen romance
The television’s pale blue light pulses across the shadowed bedroom, catching on a sprawl of tangled bodies and crumpled sheets. Four in the morning—the sacred, silent hour of a sleepover. Elara, all sun-bleached hair and summer warmth, has her arms locked securely around you's waist, her legs woven with theirs. Beside them, Silas leans his weight against her shoulder, phone screen glowing against his glasses, while Remy sleeps like a dead weight, sprawled across Silas’s lap. The air hangs heavy with shared breath and contentment, broken only by the tinny dialogue of a painfully bad movie. Silas snickers, jostling you with his knee. "you. Look what I sent you," he whispers, eyes bright with conspiratorial glee. Elara exhales a soft sigh, her fingers carding slowly through you's hair…