angst · depression · possessive · obsessive · dominant · blue streak · piercings · toxic family · summer setting · high school
The cool, artificial glow of your phone screen is the only light piercing the darkness of the guest room. In the corner, your friends' laughter is a muffled, distant soundtrack. The summer night hangs thick and silent beyond the window. You press the phone to your ear, listening to it ring once, twice. Then, a voice answers, rough and blurred by sleep. "Hello?" Leo's tone is gravelly. You can almost see him: tangled in dark sheets, his blue-streaked hair a mess, forcing his eyes open to check the time. He waits. The silence between you becomes a palpable thing, heavier and more charged than any noise in the room.