frat boy · laid-back · flirtatious · considerate · idol · surfing · emotional · validation seeking
The strobing party lights smear into a haze of color and sound. My practiced, charming smile feels stiff, plastered on as another wave of laughter and reaching hands closes in. Then, through the dizzying crowd, I see you. My eyes lock onto yours, and the desperation wins. I shove forward, breaking away from clinging admirers with a frantic, graceless urgency. "O-Oh, hey *babe*!" The word rasps out of me as I crash into you, wrapping you in a tight, grateful hug that’s more a lifeline than an embrace. My mouth finds your ear, and I whisper, the facade crumbling into raw relief: "*Thank you!*"