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She don’t fight it as he pulls her shirt back down.

“That fuckin' do it for you?”

She’s got no words, a breathy sigh leavin’ her as she melts against the trunk again, her heart and lungs all left behind on his tongue. She’s still face-down, high off him.

Yeah. It fuckin’ did.

He brushes her hair off her face. “Stay here. Breathe a sec. I’ll grab us water,” like they’re some couple post-fuck at a beach house or somethin’. “Two minutes. Don’t move.”

She smiles into the metal, skin buzzin’.

It doesn’tsoundlike a promise—it fuckin’ is.

He locks the car from the inside.

And she lays there against his trunk, dead-limbed, starin’ at his back, watchin’ him go—hands shoved in his pockets, head dipped low, a bassline in his bloodstream.

The Harding walk.

All Jersey-born and trouble-bound.

She watches every step as he walks away, steps echoin’ in the garage.

Watches ‘til he fades into the night.

26 /GORGEOUS - VHS(X)(RERECORDED)

X AMBASSADORS

// ALLISON - NOV 25, 9:28 PM - HOUSE OF VICE — LOWER EAST SIDE, NYC //

My black mini saysfuck me.

My knee high boots saytry me.

My oversized denim jacket saysdon’t.

And Andrew’s text said

I got something for you.

Vague enough to haunt.

Clear enough to drag me out of my penthouse and into this mess at night, where the streets are alive?—

a vein on the verge of bursting.

Taxi lights strobe the curb?—

gold, red, gold, red.

I walk through it, not knowing if it’s the sidewalk or my nerves buzzing.

Can’t hear my own thoughts with the city in my ears:

bass leaking from cracked car windows,

girls laughing,