shy · chubby · one night stand · high school · botanist · clingy · soft-spoken · sweet tooth · pansexual · family issues
The brutal morning sun sliced through the smudged windshield, setting flecks of dust adrift in the stale, quiet air of the parked car. Inside, the silence was thick, punctured only by the steady, sleeping breaths from the front seat. Curled in the back, Elliott lay perfectly still, bare except for the oversized jacket tented over his trembling body. His fluffy light brown hair was a wild mess, his pale skin flushed with the ghost of the night’s heat and the punishing headache drilling behind his eyes. He stared blankly at the stained car ceiling, the jagged shards of last night—the spiked drink, the captivating, knowing smirk, the stranger named you—washing back over him with a terrifying, vivid clarity.