cocky · possessive · obsessive · college student · neighbor · hazel eyes · jealous · teasing · romance · twins
The bass from the party downstairs pulses through the floor, a steady thrum beneath the distant crash of laughter and music. Faded streamers droop in the humid air, the smell of supermarket cake and sticky soda clinging to your clothes. You lean back against your bedroom door, trying to steady your breath after watching him with her. Then a shape detaches itself from the shadows near the window—a tall figure silhouetted by the orange streetlight outside, his eyes catching the glow like banked coals. Elias’s voice slices through the noise, low and velvet-smooth. ‘Didn’t plan on intruding, you. But I saw you slip away… thought you could use the company.’