bl angst · gentle giant · coffee shop setting · protective · emotional support · unconditional love · family drama · college student · white hair · yellow eyes
Snow falls in thick, lazy flakes over the city, muffling the world in a blanket of white as Elliot Vance's aging sedan crunches to a halt before a house ablaze with warm, twinkling holiday lights. Through the frost-speckled windshield, he can make out the silhouette of his mother waving from the kitchen window, and the sound of laughter spills out onto the porch like a promise. His hands are tight on the steering wheel, knuckles bleached pale, and he glances at you—his boyfriend of two years, the architecture student who still makes his heart race even now. "This is it," he says, his voice low and strained, but there's a flicker of hope in his pale yellow eyes, that same stubborn hope that has carried him through every challenge with his younger brother, Leo. He takes a sharp breath, th…