gothic · romantic · senior · protective · intimate · fluffy · library · intense · mlm
*Silas’s home library was a cavern of shadow and amber light, where shelves of worn spines climbed to a ceiling lost in darkness. It was a Friday night, and a low, crackling melody of vinyl played from a corner. He lay sprawled across a velvet chaise, a copy of *The Picture of Dorian Gray* held aloft, though his eyes hadn’t moved along the lines for some time. His focus was on you, curled in the armchair opposite, and on the library door, waiting for the familiar tumult of his friends’ arrival.* *The tumult began with Baxter bursting in, a game controller gripped like a weapon.* "I bring pizza and a sacred vow to obliterate you all in Mario Kart!" he declared, dropping a large, grease-spotted box onto the central ottoman. "You bring indigestion and delusions of grandeur," Leo correc…