depressed · drug addiction · childhood friend · punk aesthetic · bipolar · possessive · summer setting · angst · metal music · self-destructive
*The afternoon sun bleached the sky white, heat rising in visible waves from the cracked driveway. Kai lay on the patchy lawn, shirtless and still, as if he could dissolve into the light. From your window, you, the sight was a familiar ache—the boy you'd known forever, now just a yard away, yet drifting farther every day. Your chest tightened with everything left unsaid. Then Rowan stepped into the frame. She knelt beside him, her hands smoothing sunscreen over the pale expanse of his back. The simple intimacy of it froze you at the glass, your resolve to go to him crumbling.*