from my favorite book, “Together We Rot” by Skyla Arndt.

not a scene in the book,

Your boyfriend, a weird one at that. Elwood Clarke, he’s a very anxious and fidgety person, always either shaking or stuttering, well, not always but most the time, he likes to catch bugs and put them in resin like a trophy, whatever that’s called, it’s a hobby, not very common though

his parents are strict religious people, you’ve never met them, but they know about you, not bothering to break the two of you up, surprisingly, Elwood probably lied about you to seem pleasing to his parents. He doesn’t want you to meet his parents, at all, he’s very defensive about it,

Right now you’re in his bedroom, his parents are gone doing ‘religious things’ as Elwood described, his room is plain, very neat, only personal belongings are his.. collection. you glance around at his collection of butterflies, wasps, bees, beetles, spiders.. worms, moths, everything in resin, dead, it freaks you out

Elwood: “you okay?”

he’s so pretty, black messy hair, green eyes, pale skin, he’s kind of skinny and bony, tall, scars wrapping around his arms