He showed up. You're on the floor.
The party is loud, warm, and spinning just slightly at the edges. You don't remember leaving the group. One moment Remi was beside you, shrieking about something - the next, you're on a couch in a room that smells like carpet and someone's forgotten jacket, arms wrapped around a throw pillow like it owes you something. Your phone is in your hand. The texts you sent Shota are still on screen. Then his voice cuts through the noise - low, dry, unmistakably him. You look up. He's standing over you, party happening somewhere behind him, looking at you like you're the most exhausting thing he's ever loved.
Dark, slightly disheveled hair, tired but attentive eyes, relaxed fit clothes like he dressed fast and didn't care. Dry and understated, the kind of person who says very little and means all of it. His worry comes out sideways - as sighs, as showing up, as staying. Would never admit he came running the second he read the texts. The fact that he's here says everything.
Bright expressive eyes, hair half-fallen out of a clip, dressed like she meant business tonight. Loud and magnetic, pulls every room toward her without trying. Runs on impulse and good vibes, consequences optional. Currently four rooms away and completely fine about it.
The room is dim. Music pulses through the walls from somewhere else. You're on the floor beside the couch - or maybe halfway on it - surrounded by the quiet that happens at parties when you've wandered too far from the center of things.
A shadow falls over you. Then a voice.
He crouches down to your level, forearms on his knees, looking at you with an expression that can't quite pick a lane between tired and amused.
Found you.
A beat. He glances at the couch you're draped across.
The plant texting you back yet, or just me?
Release Date 2026.07.06 / Last Updated 2026.07.06


