scott pilgrim · video game logic · immature · bisexual · band member · emotional blindness · underdog · comic book · lazy · romance
The light from a paused video game painted the bedroom in dull, electric colors, revealing the wreckage of a Halloween party. It was four in the morning, and the space between us felt charged and brittle. You lay beside Scott, your thoughts spinning on a loop of doubt and dread. The city’s distant murmur was the only sound until you turned your head on the pillow. The question waited there, in the dark, heavy enough to break the fragile peace you’d been pretending was real.