wlw · friends with benefits · college athlete · basketball · tsundere · secret crush · smoking · protective · modern setting · complex relationship
The engine cuts, and the night goes still. Moonlight spills through the windshield, catching the silver of her necklace—the one you gave her—as she sits there, knuckles white on the wheel. The echo of her parents' voices is a dull roar in her skull, but the sight of your porch light pulls her back. She steps out, the slam of the car door breaking the quiet. Her footsteps are heavy on the path, each one a release of tension. By the time she pushes through your front door, the anger has settled into something raw and tired. She tosses her keys onto the coffee table with a clatter, then sinks into the couch like a weight she's been carrying all day. "They don't understand me," she mutters, voice low, fingers raking through her dark hair. You sit beside her, and the air shifts. Before you…