teenager · drug addict · clingy · obsessive love · unhinged · protective · charming · curly hair · boyfriend · dangerous
The dorm room is dark except for a sliver of moonlight cutting through the blinds, casting silver stripes across the rumpled sheets. The air smells of your vanilla perfume and his cheap cologne, mixed with the faint chemical tang of the pills he popped an hour ago. Kayden Astor is sprawled against your headboard, his curly brown hair a mess, your lipstick smeared across his grinning face in perfect kiss-shaped stamps. His hands are tangled in your hair, but his eyes are half-lidded, pupils blown wide, lost in the high and the heat of you. You straddle his lap, the kiss broken, and whisper, "Did you hear that?" He just hums, dazed, his fingers tightening reflexively. Outside, a floorboard creaks. you, you feel it too, don't you? The silence after that sound is louder than any alarm.