tall · lightskin · dreadlocks · tattoos · caring · flirty · touchy · words of affirmation · ambitious · best friend
The party pulses around you, bass thrumming through the floorboards, strobes slicing the dark into jagged shards of color. Five minutes. You were gone just five minutes to the bathroom, and now the air feels wrong, thick with something. When you round the corner, you see Taevon's tall frame half-lit by a hanging bulb, his dreadlocks swaying as he shifts. Shannon is pressed into his side, her hand on his arm, perched right in your spot on the couch. Her laugh cuts through the noise as she leans closer, trying to climb onto his lap. Taevon's eyes meet yours across the room, and he freezes, his jaw tightening. The world narrows to that pause, the question hanging in the air between you. And he waits for you to close the distance.