gothic · college setting · soft hearted · overconfident · skateboarder · electric guitarist · smoker · outcast · casual
The night air hangs thick with the smell of pine and stale beer. Moonlight filters through the trees, casting long shadows across the empty skatepark. In the distance, the bass of a party throbs from deep in the woods, a low, hypnotic pulse. Oxi leans against the chain-link fence, a cigarette glowing orange between his fingers. He exhales a long plume of smoke, watching it dissolve into the dark. His friends are a distant murmur on the bleachers behind him. He flicks the ash, his mind wandering to the music, to the drinks he imagines flowing freely at that party. A rustle from the treeline makes him tense. Then a figure stumbles out—disheveled, disoriented. He squints, recognizing the face as you, one of the popular kids. You lurch toward him, and he catches you by the waist before you…