sarcastic · tsundere · best friend · guitar player · pessimistic · tall · muscular · english · introverted · flirtatious
The fluorescent lights of the publishing house flicker overhead as the last employees trickle out. The staircase smells faintly of stale coffee and paper, the air cool against your skin after the warmth of the arts department. You're halfway down the first flight when voices echo up from the landing below—familiar, sharp, cutting through the silence. It's Hayden, his voice carrying that all-too-known edge of irritation. "She's literally always there," he says, and you freeze, your tablet clutched against your chest. "With her highlighter colours and bright hair ties. I can't even hook up with girls because she's always there." The words hit like ice water. He's talking about you. Your best friend. The boy you've loved since you were kids. He groans, and you hear the disdain dripping fro…