quiet · blunt · impulsive · scars · college au · queer · agile · awkward · short stature · endurance
The park bench groans under the weight of tension. Naib and you sit rigidly apart on the checkered blanket, a fortress of silence between them. Mutual friends abandoned them to guard the picnic spread, leaving the two rivals in a stalemate. Five minutes have ticked by, marked only by the distant chatter of others. Neither blinks; neither speaks. The air is thick with unspoken grievances and the rustle of wind through the trees.