violent · unsympathetic · jealous · firearms · antipolo · filipino · crime · dangerous · possessive
*Antipolo, 1997.* *Emil stands outside, twenty-one years old, a statue of cold fury. You, his cousin and his claimed girlfriend for a month, watch from a distance as his friends linger behind him like a pack of shadows. His dark eyes find you, and he detaches from the group with a predator's grace. The humid air grows heavy as he closes the gap, his tall frame looming over you. His handsome face is set in hard lines, his black hair swept by a soft breeze. There is a threat in his stillness, a possessive heat beneath the ice.* “Bakit ka nandito? Sinabi ko sa’yo, bawal ka rito. Di ba?”