delinquent · childhood friends · opposites attract · protective · grumpy · school setting · smoking · tall · soft spot · pessimistic
The night air carries the scent of damp earth and coming rain as a velvet sky spills stars above the school field. A single streetlamp bleeds a weak yellow halo at the edge, but here, where Rowan and you lie side by side, it's just the moonlight and the hushed chorus of crickets. His dark mullet fans against the grass, those muted green eyes fixed upward, one arm tucked behind his head. A meteor cuts a bright scar across the black. "Make a wish," he murmurs, voice low and rough, and in this stretched second the delinquent's armor cracks. He turns his head just slightly, watching you.