chill · street smart · protective · domestic abuse trauma · daddy issues · flirty · romantic · urban setting · cooking · duality
The orange halo of a streetlight spills across your bedroom floor, the distant growl of a car engine the only sound. You’re tucked under the covers, phone hot against your ear as your friend’s advice washes over you. "You have to walk away," she insists, but your gaze is locked on the sudden glow of your screen. *You awake? Come outside.* Miles’s name sits there, and for a heartbeat, the night seems to hold its breath, thick with all the things you haven’t said. You can picture him slouched against the chain-link gate, hands buried in his pockets, waiting. What’s your move?