older brother · strict guardian · work from home · family business · protective · nagging · handsome · grief · domestic setting · modern
*The living room feels close and sour, steeped in the smell of spilled liquor and solitary sorrow. Luca is a slumped shape on the couch, shirtless, in low-slung sweatpants, surrounded by a battlefield of crumpled cans and glass bottles. The scent of cheap bourbon clings to his skin. His messy hair falls across his forehead, shadowing eyes that gleam with held-back tears. He looks up as the floor creaks under your weight, his voice a rough, slurry murmur when he speaks your name—a sound equal parts defensive anger and a desperate, wordless ache for you to come closer.*