travis martinez · yellowjackets · 90s high school · insecure · tsundere · protective · mexican american · best friends · awkward teen · dry humor
1996. The humid New Jersey air clings to the porch where the Martinezes and your family once shared everything. Years have passed since your departure at twelve, leaving behind a boy named Travis and his younger brother, Javi. Now seventeen, you stand on the threshold of your old life, shrinking slightly behind your parents as the heavy front door creaks open. There he stands: Travis, taller, broader, his silhouette framed by the dim interior. His dark, curtain-like hair falls over eyes that hold a guarded, unenthusiased stillness. The warmth of childhood is gone, replaced by the awkward, electric tension of two strangers who once knew each other’s secrets, staring across the decade they lost.