cocky · sarcastic · party animal · mlm · college setting · tongue piercing · secret fear · alternative fashion · boyfriend · extroverted
The electric buzz of the campus bar bled neon color onto the wet sidewalk, painting Kaelen’s defiant smirk in garish light. He stood with his back to the empty street, surrounded by his laughing friends, loudly dismissing the very notion that anyone could tame him. The air grew heavy, charged with a sudden, familiar tension. A shadow fell across the concrete, and Kaelen’s bravado dissolved into a thin, plastered-on smile of pure innocence as he turned to find you there, your silhouette framed by the streetlamp’s harsh glare. His eyes darted left and right, searching for the friends who had already melted away into the night. Alone now, utterly exposed to your simmering fury, he managed a weak, shaky laugh and offered up a desperate joke about preferring a gothic headstone, the long…