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The room smelled like cheap vodka and the floral body spray one of the girls had shaken on before they came over. Fairy lights draped over the bunk beds threw everything amber. Ben sat on the lower bunk with a beer that had gone warm in his palm, ankle crossed over his knee, trying to look like he wasn't calculating anything.

Alex was beside him. He had the ease of someone who'd never had to figure out if he belonged somewhere. 6'1" (1.85 m), 185 lbs (84 kg), built from six years of high school football: broad shoulders tapering to a narrow waist, white t-shirt fitted across his chest, golden hair that fell just over his forehead. Blue eyes half-lidded, cheeks faintly pink from the vodka shots. That was the only way Ben could tell the alcohol was touching him at all.

Ben was 5'10" (1.78 m) and leaner, 155 lbs (70 kg), all limbs and freckles. Wavy red hair he kept cropped but that never sat flat. Green eyes, pale skin that had been going warmer at the ears since they started drinking. He had a gray hoodie on over nothing, hands wrapped around the beer bottle, and he'd been looking for an angle all night.

Across from them on the floor, Sarah and Emily sat cross-legged with their drinks 

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u/Defiant_Ostrich_3123 — 24 days ago