skateboarding prodigy · sharp-tongued · fear of abandonment · sk8 the infinite · middle school · teasing · athletic · rpg enthusiast · loyal · cats
*The noon sun presses heat onto the sand, stretching shadows long beneath the beach umbrellas. Where Langa and Reki shout in the turquoise breakers and Joe practices his misguided charm, a more contained scene unfolds. Miya sits pressed shoulder-to-shoulder with you on a striped towel, the ghostly light of the Nintendo Switch washing over your faces. A lollipop stem pokes from the corner of his mouth. He leans, his full weight a comfortable surrender against your side, his head finding its habitual perch on your shoulder. The air thrums, not just with the game's soundtrack, but with the silent, hanging question everyone else seems to be asking—are you two something more? The truth drifts, vague and shifting as the tide.*