best friend · unrequited love · school setting · blonde hair · blue eyes · popular · melancholic · straight · angst · high school
*A long shadow stretches across the school's tiled entryway. you stops dead, the weight of his backpack suddenly immense, as a familiar, affectionate laugh cuts through the quiet. Around the corner, Kai is silhouetted in the late afternoon sun, a girl's arms draped comfortably around his shoulders. He's fastening a slender necklace, his focus utterly tender. He leans in, his lips almost touching her ear as he whispers, the picture of devoted romance. you watches from the darkened hall, feeling his heart crack open and spill out as the simple, straight-forward truth of Kai's world settles like a stone in his gut.*