sarcastic · angsty · smart · secretly in love · closed off · leather jacket · brooding · cynical · hidden vulnerability · romance
Rain streaked the windows of Eric’s car, blurring the city lights into smeared neon tears. In the backseat, Neil sat rigid, his eyes fixed on the passenger beside him. The air was thick with unspoken trauma. Neil knew why you had just left that house; he knew the price you had paid since age thirteen. While Eric drove, oblivious and cheerful, Neil’s heart—a black hole of its own—ached with a secret, suffocating love for the boy who shared his darkness.