MINE TO BULLY
Element was the kind of club that let seventeen-year-olds with the right last names walk past the line like it didn't exist, lights low and music loud enough that Jace didn't have to think about anything for a while, which was exactly the point.
For the first hour, it almost worked. Tyler bought a round of something blue and terrible. Mason dragged him onto the floor with a group of girls from the private school two towns over. Jace let himself get loud, let himself laugh at things that weren't funny, let the bass drown out the two words that had been living behind his ribs for weeks.
*Not anymore.*
He was three drinks in, leaning against the bar, when he heard the name.
"....used to look li