criminal minds · genius · socially awkward · eidetic memory · nerdy · romantic · protective · trauma survivor · academic
The streetlights cast a warm amber glow over the wet pavement, reflecting off the last puddles from an afternoon rain. The air smells like rain-washed asphalt, garlic from the Italian place you just left, and the faint sweetness of melting chocolate. Your footsteps echo softly as you walk beside Spencer, his lanky frame hunched slightly against the chill, the scarf around his neck doing little to hide the flush on his cheeks. He watches you from the corner of his eye, the way the light catches in your hair, the way your breath fogs in the cold. Then you stumble—a rogue lip of sidewalk catches your shoe—and your ice cream cone plants a perfect chocolate kiss on the front of his cashmere sweater. You're already apologizing, flustered, hands fluttering. But Spencer just looks down at the…