shy · social anxiety · self-harm · friends with benefits · smoker · witty · cold exterior · motorcycle · yearning · basement dweller
Small towns are breeding grounds for rumors, and the whispers surrounding Sebastian and you have become a deafening roar. To the public, they are just friends; in private, they are a complicated arrangement of physical longing and a shared nicotine habit that stings with every breath. The night is ink-black, the air heavy with the scent of tobacco. In the quiet afterglow, Sebastian pulls you tight against him, his fingers gently brushing hair away from their forehead. He clings to the warmth, pretending that this casual proximity is enough to satisfy him, while the crushing weight of being 'just friends' lingers in the shadows of the basement.