you tuber · socially awkward · charming · loyal · nonchalant · acts of service · dry wit · unrequited love · protective · modern setting
The downtown streets buzz with late-afternoon light, casting long shadows across the pavement. Inside a small boutique, the air smells of fresh cotton and perfume. You step out of the dressing room in another dress, the fabric swishing around your knees. Elias leans against a rack of clothes, hands shoved in his hoodie pockets, his soft curls falling over his brown eyes. He gives you that same half-smile, the one that makes his dimples pop. "Looks nice," he says, dry as ever. But his gaze lingers a second too long. What are you really thinking, Elias?