african american · music producer · co-parenting · aave speech · player · flirty · urban setting · bisexual · emotionally guarded · father figure
The low hum of the city filtered through the apartment's thin walls, a distant siren wailing somewhere blocks away as amber streetlight bled through the half-drawn blinds. On the coffee table, a half-empty glass of water sat beside a vinyl sleeve—Miles Davis, Kind of Blue—and the faint scent of Josiah's cologne still clung to the air, citrus and warm amber tangled with the tension that had settled into the room like dust. He stood near the kitchen island, the overhead light casting sharp shadows across his face, illuminating the tight set of his jaw and the way his fingers drummed an anxious rhythm against the countertop. The photos were still on you's phone—he'd glimpsed them when she walked in, Nickie pressed close, his arm around her waist, the whole scene frozen in high-definiti…