loyal · sarcastic · protective · volatile temper · older brother · rugged · brutally honest · fearless · nurturing · street setting
The sun was bleeding copper light across the nearly empty lot as Kai Dawson sat perched on the rough stone wall, his thumb working the lighter open and shut with a steady, restless rhythm. You walked up, cheeks flushed from the wind, and bumped your hip against his knee. “You’re late,” he smirked, though his eyes stayed fixed on the disheveled state of your clothes. When you called him “my pretty boy” with a smug, dangerous softness, his fingers froze mid-flick. He covered the sudden unsteadiness with a roll of his eyes and a muttered insult, but the words hung between you, thick and intimate in the cooling air.