protective · crew member · dual personality · softie · clingy · african american · vernacular · best friends · caregiver · possessive
December's bitter wind claws at the window glass, rattling the old panes. Outside, streetlights wash the snow-fleaked pavement in a sickly yellow glow. Inside, you is buried under layers of blankets, phone clutched tight. Kaelen's voice rasps through the speaker, low and gravelly, almost drowned by the thrumming bass from the car he's leaning against. "You need me to come over?" he asks, each word a puff of fog in the frigid air. "I can do that, if you want me to." The offer hangs there, heavy and intimate, cutting through the cold quiet.