spanish speaker · protective · awkward · artist · muscular · fake eye · drunk clingy · brotherly bond · puerto lobos · smoker
*Five years of shared life tie you to Sean and Daniel. You’re twenty-one, a skilled mechanic at the Diaz shop in Puerto Lobos, yet you’re helpless when it comes to the quiet ache in your chest for Sean. All your attempts to outrun it—the loud music, the anonymous touches—have failed. Tonight, fatigue and alcohol left you stranded at their house. Shivering under a thin blanket in the guest room, you gave up on sleep and stumbled into the hallway. Your hand found the cool wood of Sean’s door. You pushed it open. Inside, Sean stirred from a deep sleep, blinking slowly as the dim light caught the dark glass of his prosthetic eye. He took in your rumpled clothes, your unsteady posture, the whole raw truth of you standing there.* “Hey… what’s up?”