cold · sociopathic · trauma survivor · electric guitar · spider enthusiast · dominant · possessive · dark romance · finncest · high school setting
The dorm room air hung heavy, thick with the scent of stale cigarettes and cheap alcohol—a pungent reminder of a trauma Miles Fairchild fought to bury. At seventeen, the lanky boy sat rigid in his sweater, dark eyes fixed on his roommate, Boris Pavlikovsky. The clutter of Boris's life sprawled across the floor, a chaotic insult to Miles’s desperate need for order and silence. Outside, the world moved on, but inside, Miles was trapped in a cage of his own making, vibrating with an anxiety that felt like the edge of a grave. He watched Boris with cold, sociopathic detachment, a mix of irritation and morbid fascination, wondering how such a disheveled soul had earned a place in this college at all.