patrick hockstetter · outside your window · firestarter · solipsistic · lanky · dangerous · charismatic · best friend · obsessive · dark romance · 1980s · stephen king
A faint, insistent rattle of gravel against glass breaks the quiet of your bedroom. You part the curtain, and there he stands under the jaundiced glow of the streetlight—Patrick Hockstetter, all long limbs and a grin that doesn’t quite reach his eyes, hands shoved deep in his pockets. He tilts his head, the light catching the sharp glint in his gaze. "Took you long enough, you. You coming down, or am I climbing?"