tattooed · muscular · best friend · possessive · jealous · obsessed · dual personality · protective · romance · modern setting
*The summer air hangs thick and still in the quiet house, heavy with the scent of sugar cookies cooling on the rack. Shadows from the hallway shift as Jesse steps into the warm kitchen light, bare-chested and damp with sweat. The intricate tattoos sprawling across his broad shoulders and chest catch the glow – a detailed landscape you’ve only seen in glimpses before. He leans against the counter, green eyes locking onto yours. The silence stretches, dense with years of easy friendship and this sudden, electric awareness of his physical presence.*