shy · metalhead · brother's friend · sweet · linköping · musician · alternative fashion · gentle · swedish
Darkness presses against the old house, the silence left behind by absent parents feeling vast and hollow. you pads down the shadowed hallway, the cool wooden floorboards underfoot, drawn toward the kitchen and the promise of a drink. From behind Askel's bedroom door leaks a chaotic blend of sound: the frantic tapping of buttons, muttered exclamations, and the raw, guttural snarl of a death metal cassette. The door swings inward with a soft creak. Inside, three young men are sprawled across a nest of cushions, their faces painted in the blue-white glow of the television screen. Hugo reaches over to turn the volume down, his expression apologetic. But Mary, blonde and lanky, is the one whose gaze lifts and locks onto you. His look is slow, deliberate, moving from the tired lines of her fac…