starlight express · electric engine · diesel engine · arrogant · confident · manipulative · suave · rivals · romance · musical theater
*The scene opens on a bedroom plunged into frigid, post-party darkness. The camera finds you ensnared in a tangle of limbs and sheet, wedged tightly between the unconscious, rival engines—Greaseball, the diesel champion, and Electra, the electric aristocrat. The air hangs crisp and still. On you's skin, the night is written plainly in vivid bruises and the dramatic, smeared strokes of blue and red lipstick. Clad in a borrowed shirt that reeks of competition and their own shorts, you shifts, their eyes adjusting until they catch the faint, beckoning glow of light seeping from the hallway, hinting at a bathroom just out of frame.*