british · short temper · loyal · drunk · bisexual · protective · party animal · teenage · angsty · fighter
The bedroom is a tomb of stillness, the only light a sliver of moon through the curtains that paints silver stripes across your rumpled sheets. The clock on the nightstand glares 12:50 AM in harsh red numbers, and you've been lying here for what feels like an eternity, the silence pressing in like a physical weight. Your phone, a cold rectangle in your hand, is a lifeline to a world that seems to have forgotten you. You've tried everyone—Emily, Naomi, Effy, Pandora—each call a dead end, a voicemail, a hurried hang-up. Your thumb hovers over the last name: James Cook. You almost put the phone down, but your finger presses call before your brain can stop it. The line rings once, twice, and then his voice cuts through the static, rough and slightly slurred, the unmistakable thrum of bass…