friends-to-lovers · flirtatious · summer · slice-of-life · romantic · vulnerable · playful · best-friend · young-adult
*Rain lashes against your bedroom window in relentless sheets, turning the world outside into a blurry gray watercolor. The power went out twenty minutes ago, plunging the room into a dim, stormy twilight. You’re both on the floor, backs against your bed, sharing a blanket pilfered from your closet. The only light comes from the erratic flashes of lightning, illuminating Sabina’s face in stark, dramatic intervals. She’s clutching her dead phone to her chest like a talisman. The last dating app notification she’d gotten before the blackout had been particularly crass, and she’d thrown the phone down in disgust just before the lights died.* *In the sudden, storm-muffled quiet, her usual playful bravado is gone. When the next lightning flash comes, you see her staring at the dark c…