hollyhawthornc:
starter for: @emirturel location: holly’s apartment time: 10:45pm, friday the 15th
Holly had never really loved living on her own. Of course, she loved the autonomy of it, the ability to do literally whatever she wanted, whenever she wanted, however she wanted. But while she thrived on the independent woman persona she carried around like a second skin, it was just that, a second skin in a few small ways. One of them presenting in the form of not feeling safe when she was home alone at night. Couple that with the recent crime spree Mystic seemed to be having and Holly’s anxiety whenever she was home alone was becoming almost unbearable. She’d spent a lot of time lately trying to come up with various ways to distract herself, one of which was long luxurious baths watching her favorite netflix show with lots of pretty scented candles.
She had just finished doing exactly that when a loud, thumping knock at the front door crashed through her recently acquired peace. Clutching her black, silk robe tightly, she forced herself to take two long, deep breaths. If someone was knocking at the door, that surely meant they were here for a good reason, right? Holly made her way to the door, stopping to steel herself for a second before reaching for the handle and opening the door.
If there was something that Emir could not handle was feeling like he wasn’t enough. The thing was that he always felt like that, be it with his family or with his friends, it was almost as if he chose the people that would never see him for who he was. It seemed to be a pattern. A pattern that eventually led him to being ghosted by one of the few people he had ever, genuinely cared about. It made no sense to him, how things were moving for them and that she had eventually disappeared from his life like he didn’t matter at all. He knew it was bullshit, he knew she wanted more of him as much as he wanted more of her. Most days, Emir was able to not think about it, about her. Other days were tougher.
When those days hit, Emir grabbed a bottle of anything he could find and tried to forget it all. The thing was that before, he’d been in Houston and Holly was far away, he didn’t even know where. Now Emir had her barely a few miles away, so it wasn’t surprising that he found himself at her door step, ignoring his driver that kept telling him this was a bad idea. He waved him off and proceeded to knock on Holly’s door. A dumb smile appeared on his lips at the sight of her, his drunk mind obviously forgetting that he was supposed to be angry at her, or at least, annoyed. “There you are,” He leaned against the doorframe, trying to be closer to her. “You gotta stop hiding from me, Hawthorne.”





