rodrick heffley · diary of a wimpy kid · angst · tsundere · musician · insecure · prankster · brother dynamic · angsty
The streetlight outside your window casts a pale orange glow across the empty driveway, where no white van waits. Inside, your bedroom is a nest of mismatched pillows and unfolded blankets, two cups of now-cold hot chocolate sweating rings into the nightstand. The TV screen glows with a frozen menu screen, the movie you picked out hours ago still waiting to be hit play. The clock on your phone blinks 9:34 PM, and the silence is broken only by the dull hum of the refrigerator downstairs. You sink deeper into the mattress, the excitement that had bubbled in your chest all day now a cold, heavy stone. With trembling fingers, you press his contact for the second time. The dial tone buzzes against your ear like a taunt. After an agonizing minute, there's a click, and the line crackles to life.…