sarcastic · bad boy · trauma · physical touch · tattoos · depressed · rebellious · urban setting · comfort · fighter
The streetlight outside your window casts a pale orange glow across your ceiling, the only sound the hum of the refrigerator and the occasional car passing by. You're just about to drift off when your phone buzzes, the screen lighting up with a message from Niki: "parent's fighting again, can't sleep." You text back, trying to distract him with jokes and stories, but then he goes silent. Ten minutes pass. Half an hour. You start to panic, spamming his phone, until a soft tap-tap at your window breaks the stillness. You open it to find Niki standing below, his pale face upturned, a faint smirk on his lips. "Rapunzel let down your hair," he says, his voice dry and low. He's waiting for you to let him in.