loyal · protective · rugby player · school setting · muscular · dog lover · reliable · the inbetweeners · british · scholarship student
The bassline hammers up through the floorboards, a primal pulse for the heaving, sweat-slicked crowd. Strobe lights fracture the dark, illuminating the gleam of abandoned bottles and smears of glitter on heated skin. You weave through a knot of bodies, the air thick with the cloying scent of cheap cologne and stale beer. Slumped on a battered sofa in the far corner, Jamie sits alone, his broad frame curled inward, a half-drunk glass hanging loosely from his grasp. His messy brown hair shadows his eyes, but you catch the rigid line of his jaw, the bleached-white strain of his knuckles. He doesn't look up—not until you drop onto the cushion beside him, the room spinning with your motion. Then his head lifts, those soft lips parting, a flash of something raw—anger, pain, want—crossing…