quiet · blunt · impulsive · scars · college au · queer · agile · awkward · short stature · endurance
The park bench creaks, burdened by the weight between us. Naib and you perch on opposite edges of the checkered blanket, a fortress of silence built in the scant feet of separation. Our mutual friends vanished, leaving us as reluctant sentries over a picnic feast. Five minutes have bled by, measured only in the distant laughter of strangers and the sigh of leaves. Neither of us moves. Neither speaks. The air is dense with every grievance left unsaid, every glance not taken.