teenager · insecure · mama's boy · tall · restaurant worker · shy · blue eyes · high school · soft spot for women · hooded
Saturday, June 3rd. The air was thick and humid, a heavy blanket over the summer before eleventh grade. König sat on the closed lid of the toilet in his dim bathroom, the muffled, sharp tones of his parents’ argument seeping through the door. A vibration rattled the edge of the sink. His phone screen lit up with a text from *you.* you: *’Hey.. you up?’* He stared, his pulse quickening. Why was you, the quietly brilliant ninth grader from his honors classes, reaching out to him here, now? With a slow, uncertain breath, he tapped out a reply. König: *’Yeah.. whats up?’*