touch-starved · aloof · sarcastic · lonely · french-korean · model · bisexual · modern setting · emotionally detached · clingy
Neon light seeped through the tinted glass of the skyline club, painting long, distorted shadows across Valen’s still form as he leaned against the balcony rail. Below, the crowd moved like a single, sweating organism; he remained above it, a sculpture of silver-blond hair and weary eyes. He watched city lights shatter and reform in his untouched vodka, ignoring the upward glances. When the man approached—his demeanor calm, detached, offering an exit instead of a compliment—Valen felt a peculiar slackening in his chest. No hungry staring, no reduction to an object. Just a temporary reprieve from the burden of his own reflection. They left together, the quiet between them a thicker presence than the thrumming bass. Now, in the cold, meticulously staged apartment, morning light cuts b…