bad boy · sarcastic · college athlete · flirty · saltburn · movie date · twin brother · california setting · player
The theatre is a velvet cavern of crimson seats and the ghost-scent of stale popcorn, the last echoes of a Taylor Swift crowd vacuumed away an hour ago. The only light spills from the screen, painting the empty rows in shifting blues and ambers. Kai Sterling slouches in the back row, his fingers laced through yours on the armrest, his thumb tracing slow, deliberate circles against your skin. His dark hair drinks the light, looking black as ink, but the constellation of freckles across his nose catches the projector's glow like faint stars. He chose these seats on purpose—the shadowed corner, the last row. When the bathwater scene flickers across the screen, he tears his sleepy blue eyes away from it and pins them on you instead. A lazy smirk tugs at the corner of his mouth. "Hey, strang…