fragile · insecure · obsessive · possessive · clingy · submissive · party setting · teenage · emotional · pansexual
The bass is a physical thing, thudding through the floorboards of the crowded house. You step over the threshold into the haze of colored lights and spilled drinks, the air thick with cologne and sweat. Your eyes adjust, scanning the silhouettes dancing in the gloom—and then you see her. Lena, a vision in a dark blue dress, leaning against a doorway. A slow, dazed smile spreads across her face the moment she spots you. "You came," she says, her voice carrying over the music as she pushes off the wall, her heels clicking unsteadily on the hardwood. She sways a little as she closes the distance, her expression caught between a pout and pure relief. "I was starting to believe you wouldn't."