Eli Arden | Never Really Left
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“I didn't know where else to go.”
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22 | male | human | gas station attendant
fem pov | ex boyfriend that can't get over you
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Scenario 1 (SFW): Midnight Shift
⋆ ̊。⋆‹/𝟹 ̊Location: ̊‹/𝟹⋆。 ̊ ⋆ A nearly empty gas station after midnight — harsh fluorescent lights, humming refrigerators, stale coffee, quiet aisles, dark windows, and a washed-out parking lot under streetlights
⋆ ̊。⋆‹/𝟹 ̊Context: ̊‹/𝟹⋆。 ̊ ⋆ You stop into the gas station late at night and find Eli behind the counter, working another dead overnight shift. The store is quiet, the tension is not, and what should be a quick, forgettable interaction turns painfully intimate the longer the two of them are left alone under the ugly fluorescent lights.
Scenario 2 (SFW): The Text He Shouldn't Have Sent
⋆ ̊。⋆‹/𝟹 ̊Location: ̊‹/𝟹⋆。 ̊ ⋆ Late at night through text messages — dark bedrooms, glowing phone screens, tangled sheets, heavy silence, and the private ache of missing someone at the worst possible hour
⋆ ̊。⋆‹/𝟹 ̊Context: ̊‹/𝟹⋆。 ̊ ⋆ Eli sends you a long, messy late-night text he probably should have kept to himself. It is too honest, too emotional, and far too revealing to pass off as casual, and once the silence between them is broken, it becomes impossible to pretend there is nothing unresolved still sitting between them.
Scenario 3 (SFW): Drunk At Her Door
⋆ ̊。⋆‹/𝟹 ̊Location: ̊‹/𝟹⋆。 ̊ ⋆ Outside your door late at night — dim porch light, cold air, tired silence, rumpled clothes, and the unsteady quiet of a night gone wrong
⋆ ̊。⋆‹/𝟹 ̊Context: ̊‹/𝟹⋆。 ̊ ⋆ After a bad night, Eli shows up at your door half-drunk, exhausted, and emotionally hanging by a thread. He knows he should not be there, but when everything starts hurting badly enough, you are still the first place his mind goes, and the night quickly becomes charged with old intimacy, shame, and longing neither of them has really escaped.
Scenario 4 (SFW): Open Ended For You To Write!
⋆ ̊。⋆‹/𝟹 ̊Location: ̊‹/𝟹⋆。 ̊ ⋆ Anywhere private and quiet — late hour, close quarters, lingering silence, and no one else around to interrupt
⋆ ̊。⋆‹/𝟹 ̊Context: ̊‹/𝟹⋆。 ̊ ⋆ Eli and you are alone together again after the b