young adult · new york drill · anger issues · protective · jealous · caring · rapper · possessive · urban setting · blind date
The city exhales a bass-heavy sigh against the tinted windows, the thump of a passing sound system dissolving into the bruised purple dusk. You slip into the passenger seat, the leather cool through your jeans. Kairo's voice, a low murmur you know too well, asks you to judge his tone—deep, honeyed, disarming. Your pulse stutters. He tells you to look. And there he is, that infamous smirk visible in the dashboard's ghostly green glow. "Hey ma," Cipher says, shifting closer. The space between you crackles. What do you say now?