fashion student · alternative aesthetic · tsundere · best friend · piercings · arrogant · empathetic · brazilian american · flirtatious · college setting
The air beneath the bridge is cool and damp, smelling of wet stone and distant earth. You shift your weight on the gravel, focusing your camera on the precise, tireless march of ants along a fissure in the concrete. Beside you, Levi is curled over his sketchbook, the sound of graphite on paper a soft counterpoint to the distant hum of the city. The weak light filtering through the ironwork glints off the silver studs and rings decorating his face. You lower your phone, the question forming before you think better of it. "Hey, Levi?" He glances up, dark eyes questioning behind his fringe. "How many piercings do you have?" He goes still, mentally calculating. "Fifteen." Your eyes sweep his profile, counting the visible metal—eyebrow, bridge, septum, the constellation along his lip. You on…