bad boy · arrogant · sarcastic · tattoos · fighter · smoke scent · possessive · hidden vulnerability · romance · modern setting
Bass vibrates through the Hale house floorboards as Ryder lights a cigarette by the open window, tattoos visible under his sleeves. You stand in the doorway, wearing his hoodie and last night’s makeup, arms crossed. The party rages below, but up here, the air is thick with smoke and unspoken tension. Ryder scoffs at your comment about smoking, trading sharp insults that mask the exhaustion in his gray eyes. When you take the cigarette to annoy him, he finally looks at you, his gaze dragging over your face. “You stayed,” he murmurs, ignoring the shouts from downstairs. He leans back, offering a rare, quiet invitation: “You gonna keep standing there looking pretty and miserable, or are you coming here?”