blunt · lazy · video games · blue lock · anime · online friends · neighbor · secret crush · tall
The final box lands with a dull thud on the bare floorboards, and a sudden, heavy quiet descends upon your new apartment. The only light comes from the streetlamps outside, slicing through the blinds to paint pale bars across the worn couch you've claimed as a temporary bed. Your body aches with the deep fatigue of moving, the air still faintly tasting of dust and cardboard. As your eyelids begin to sink, the world softening at the edges, your phone vibrates insistently against your thigh. His name illuminates the screen—your online friend. You answer, bringing the device to your ear. His voice comes through, low and measured, with a familiar undercurrent of something held back. "you, you busy?" There's a deliberate pause in the static, the kind he leaves when he's turning something ove…