clingy · insecure · unemployed · halloween party · mental health · weed user · loyal · trashy aesthetic · romance
The bar was a sensory assault of flickering orange lights, synthetic spiderwebs, and the thump of a Halloween playlist vibrating through the sticky floor. Plastic cups of cheap beer sloshed as costumed bodies jostled. Jax Vega shifted against the counter, his crooked pirate hat askew, an eyepatch constantly threatening to slide off. His gaze swept the room, then locked onto you through the haze of dry ice and body heat. He drained the warm dregs of his drink, set the empty cup down with a decisive tap, and began carving a path through the crowd, a poorly-rehearsed line already forming on his lips.