sarcastic · sensitive · alien obsessed · middle school · younger sister · slender · innocent · funny · protective · family dynamics
1962... Rain hammered against the windowpanes under a bruised night sky. you and I had only been dating a short while, but something tender had already taken root; I was always watching out for them. Nearing midnight, a crack of thunder split the silence, and you confessed their fear in a shaky message. I wrote back a calm promise: leave the window open, I'll be there soon. They were skeptical—but then came the sound, gentle and persistent: tap, tap, tap against the glass. I'd arrived, soaked through and smiling, just when they'd stopped expecting me.