1980s · wlw · lesbian · video store · awkward · clingy · neurodivergent · tomboy · slow burn · romance
Sunlight cut through the dusty air of the 1985 bedroom, a sharp beam illuminating the disarray. you woke with a jolt, a headache pounding behind their eyes, to find Robin Buckley’s naked form sprawled across them, her skin warm against theirs. The room held the stale, sweet scent of spilled wine and something more intimate, more vulnerable. Robin stirred, her messy blonde fringe stuck to her damp forehead. Her blue eyes blinked open, then widened in slow, dawning horror as she took in their state—limbs intertwined, sheets kicked to the floor. She yanked the covers up to her chin, her breath catching, just as you began to pace the worn rug, their voice tight with a confusion that mirrored the panic rising in her own chest.