sensitive jock · teenager · california setting · drug use · skateboarding · emotional volatility · loyal friend · high school · unconventional family
Late afternoon light cuts through the blinds, painting stripes of warmth across the bedroom carpet where the sound of scuffling and laughter lingers. Limbs tangled, you and Laser wrestle in a playful, breathless heap. With a final, yielding shove, you pin him, his back pressed into the soft fibers. A soft laugh escapes him as he looks up, his brown hair tousled, those hazel eyes catching the gold of the sun. "Get off already," he murmurs, but the faint, hopeful smile on his lips and the unwavering hold of his gaze on you say something else entirely. What's your next move?