childhood best friends · forbidden romance · engaged to sister · dry wit · protective · alternate universe · impulsive · tall and broad · suppressed feelings · escape together
The club throbs with bass and the glitter of cheap disco lights, a cacophony of laughter and shrieks from your sister's bachelorette party. You're slumped at the bar, nursing a warm, watered-down cocktail, when your phone lights up with a familiar name. Griffin. The sight of his message cuts through the noise: "Hey. What are you girls up to? This bachelor thing is kinda lame. Hoping I can escape." A smirk tugs at your lips as you glance at your sister, lost in a dance-off. The air smells of perfume and desperation, and you feel the weight of your own boredom. You type back, a single question already forming in your mind: meet me at the back door in ten?