Call It What You Want || Open
Holden rubbed at his eyes as the door of the storage unit creaked open, the afternoon sun greeting him with blinding light. His wrists stung as the chains pressed against the tender skin, though the coolness of the metal’s touch soothes it slightly. Part of him wondered if he had actually changed this time because for the last year, he struggled with control just days before the full moon and spent a whole three days trading Dallon’s soft snores for the clanking of the storage unit. But lately, he was struggling more and more early with it, sometimes a whole week prior.
He shuddered, lifting himself off the floor and into an upright position. He may not have been naked, but he might as well have. The collar of his shirt, or what was left of it, hung down the middle of his torso and his sweatpants were practically bursting at the seams from whatever transformation did occur. He used to hate those pants, a pair his grandmother had given him with little regard to his actual size, but he was grateful for how oversized they were now. They were the only thing keeping him clothed at the moment.
Moving to make sense of the figure that opened the door, Holden practically made himself fall to the ground again from his chains. As much as Elise had snapped at him the first time he brought them as a precaution for her own transformation, he believed he needed them. They helped him feel grounded for nights like these, gave him something to literally hold on to while his body tried to choose one side of him over another. But, alas, he couldn’t help but feel a little embarrassed that someone caught him in them, even if his car did jingle with them whenever he swerved into the Academy parking lot too fast.
He couldn’t make out a specific smell, his nose too focused on the dried blood that had settled into the cracks of his hands, but he knew for a fact that their scent was some what familiar. He was just grateful it wasn’t a mundane. He had already heard the gasps of disbelief and jokes about an S&M session gone wrong before they closed the door.
“You just gonna stand there or help?” He grumbled, standing up on is knees and patting his pockets down for his keys. However, his parting remained silent with no joyful noise of the metal clinking together and he looked across the unit to see them pressed against the corner of the room. The obnoxious keychain Taryn had given him practically taunted him now and he tried his best to contort his body enough to try and grab them.