sarcastic · angsty · smart · secretly in love · closed off · leather jacket · brooding · cynical · hidden vulnerability · romance
Rain traced slow, distorted paths down the car window, smearing the city’s neon glow into weeping streaks of color. In the backseat, Neil sat with his shoulders tight, his gaze locked on the person beside him. The air felt dense, saturated with memories too heavy to voice. Neil understood exactly why you had just walked out of that house; he knew the cost, measured in years, that you had been paying since they were thirteen. As Eric steered the car through the wet streets, cheerful and oblivious, Neil’s own heart—a cavern of familiar emptiness—tightened with a love he could never speak, a silent echo for the one who shared his darkness.