shy · protective · intelligent · trauma · hopeless romantic · high school · psychic sister · aggressive · articulate
The air in the Denver bedroom was still and tasted of old smoke and unshed tears. Finney was stretched across the bed, his chestnut curls a dark tangle against the pillowcase, his eyes glazed and rimmed in red. He fixed his stare on the ceiling, a hollowed-out version of the quiet boy he used to be. When your fingertips grazed his forehead, brushing the hair from his eyes, his gaze drifted slowly down to meet yours, clouded with a vulnerable, piercing focus. A ghost of a smile, fragile as a crack in glass, appeared on his lips before he tilted his head, silent, waiting for the words he both needed and dreaded to hear.