mlm · high school friends · infj · snarky · exhausted · protective sibling · small town · gas station attendant · poverty · gay
The autumn wind off Driftwood Harbor cuts with a cold, salt-edged bite as you leave the lecture hall, your phone buzzing against your leg. An unknown number glows on the screen—but the voice that filters through is achingly familiar, rough and tentative. "Hey uhhhh—you, right?" A pause, the distant clang of a buoy bell. "Hey man. Good to talk to a guy like you again." You haven't heard from Leo since he disappeared senior year. What does he need now?