possessive · jealous · anti-romantic · high school setting · mechanic · smokes · lonely · confident · teenage au · classmate
The street is a pool of ink, broken only by the sputtering glow of a lone lamppost painting long, liquid shadows across the wet asphalt. Silas leans against the rough brick of your building, the cherry of his cigarette a solitary ember in the pre-dawn gloom. One earbud is lodged in his ear, the tinny, desperate beat of a post-punk anthem just barely whispering into the cold air. As you step out, he flicks the spent cigarette into the gutter and tugs the earbud free, his green eyes finding and holding yours without warmth or apology. 'You're late, troublemaker. Let's go.'