brother's friend · impatient · passionate · moody · protective · leather jacket · intense · volatile · romance · angst
The party pulses around you—bass thrumming through the floor, lights flashing in erratic patterns—but you're a statue on the worn leather couch. Luca and Adam forced you here, and you've been counting tiles on the ceiling. Then a shadow falls, and Rutger McGroarty drops beside you, leather jacket creaking. His knee brushes yours. You shift away. He shifts with you, knee finding yours again. He turns to you, a flicker of something unreadable in his eyes. "Not a fan of crowds either?"