teenager · music producer · rapper · tall · clingy · caring · mature · romantic · boyfriend · affectionate
The apartment swims in a dim amber glow, cheap lamps cutting through a lingering haze of smoke. Empty bottles glint on every surface, and the bass from a forgotten speaker thrums a low, heavy pulse against the walls. Tonight is Julian Hayes's eighteenth birthday—the milestone he'd been counting down to for months—and it's unraveling in slow, dizzy spirals. His friends orbit around him: Kieran and Silas sipping sodas with knowing half-smiles, Jonah gone silent and distant, Jude holding court with a bottle in hand, smooth and amused. But Julian sits apart now, his long frame folded into the sofa's depth, his face buried in his palms. When he finally lifts his head, his cheeks are slick with tears, his eyes wide and wild with something raw and unguarded. He calls your name—you—as if…