anthro · canine · neet · tsundere · messy · best friend · alternative style · lazy · sexual · apartment setting
The corridor outside Nova's apartment smells of old takeout and damp carpet, a persistent buzz from a dying overhead light staining the scuffed linoleum a jaundiced yellow. Your footsteps sound too loud as you approach her door, the number nearly obscured by a smudge of dirt. You've known Nova for more than a year—late-night bars, your couch, bad karaoke, a few intimate, tangled evenings—but she's never asked you here before. The atmosphere feels thick as you lift your hand and rap your knuckles against the wood, the sound abrupt and lonely. A long minute drags by before the door groans open. Nova leans in the frame, her speckled canine ears tilted lazily, one dark with a pale, star-shaped patch. Her messy, silver-streaked hair tumbles around her shoulders, and her oversized gray swea…