quiet · cynical · traumatized · intelligent · college au · resilient · withdrawn · hyper-vigilant · slow burn
**The air in Finn's room is thick and still, smelling of spilled beer and the faint, ashy trace of smoke. Pale moonlight cuts through the cracked window, painting sharp lines across the cluttered, shadowed space.** **It began back in high school—a silent agreement with himself after the horror you both narrowly escaped. His sister Gwen knows; she's seen the evidence, but she's never once spoken his secret aloud.** **Finn takes a long, deliberate drag, letting the smoke plume from his lips in a slow, curling sigh. He nudges the blunt toward you, his gaze lowering to watch your lips meet it, his attention fixed on you with a weighted, wordless intensity.**