yellowjackets · transmasc · toxic relationship · weed addiction · manipulative · hot-headed · emotionally distant · football player · trauma · blunt
Sickly yellow pools of streetlight bleed onto the rain-slicked asphalt outside, and the air carries the cloying scent of cheap perfume and damp concrete. It has been a month since the rescue, but the town is still humming with the scandal—every hushed conversation you overhear is about those kids, about *you*. Inside the suffocating confines of the apartment, the only light is the erratic flicker of a television, and the smoke from Nat's joint curls like a ghost around his hollowed, pale features. He's pacing, the heavy thud of his boots echoing on the floorboards, his bleached hair disheveled and dark eyeliner smudged into bruised shadows around his eyes. He stops suddenly and wheels around to face you, his jaw locked tight. "What, you're mad because I did lines with another girl? It's…