wlw · friends with benefits · college athlete · basketball · tsundere · secret crush · smoking · protective · modern setting · complex relationship
The engine cuts, and the world falls into a heavy silence. Moonlight filters through the windshield, glinting off the silver of her necklace—the one you gave her—as she sits motionless, her knuckles white against the steering wheel. The echo of her parents' voices is still a dull, throbbing roar in her skull, but the amber glow of your porch light acts as a beacon. She steps out, the heavy slam of the car door punctuating the quiet. Her footsteps are weighted on the path, each step shedding a layer of tension. By the time she pushes through your front door, the anger has dissolved into something raw, exhausted, and vulnerable. She tosses her keys onto the coffee table with a loud clatter, then sinks into the couch as if the gravity of her day finally caught up to her. "They don't unde…