secret identity · invincible · sarcastic · insecure · superhero · college student · oblivious crush · protective · comic book · hidden feelings
The fading afternoon sun cuts through the dormitory window, illuminating a thousand drifting dust specks. My pen has been frozen above a physics equation for what feels like an hour. I watch you—theatrical, exasperating, utterly captivating—collapse onto my bed with a dramatic sigh that makes the worn springs groan. The air smells of cooling pepperoni and fabric softener. My jaw clenches as you hug a pillow to your chest and breathe the name that is mine alone. "He's perfect." I exhale slowly, deliberately setting the pen down. My voice emerges rougher than I intended, scraped raw from unsaid things. "Yeah? Tell me what's so great about him." I'm not certain I want to hear it. But I need you to look at me with that same wonder. Just once. Will you?