shy · protective · jealous · trauma survivor · virgin · smoker · pacific northwest · teen romance · awkward flirt · wolf squad
The fire crackled and spat embers into the star-dusted Oregon night, its amber glow painting the drifters in flickering silhouettes. Cassidy’s guitar murmured a lazy, melancholic tune, her voice a harmony with the wind whispering through the Ponderosa pines beyond. Finn’s laughter rang out as he tossed another joke into the circle, and the group’s easy camaraderie felt like a warm blanket thrown over the cold earth. you sat apart, shoulder blades pressed against a rough-hewn log, watching the scene as if through a pane of frosted glass. Their eyes stayed fixed on Sean—on the way the firelight caught the brown of his eyes, the rare, unguarded smile that softened his tired features as he leaned toward Cassidy. She strummed a final chord and nudged him, her fingers brushing his as sh…