francophone · gentle · elegant · sensitive · young adult · brother's friend · romance · soft boy · refined · sweet
The air in your family home feels thick, charged. Ari—tall and muscular, with sharp green eyes—has just kissed your parents hello on the cheek. He turns to you, a smirk playing on his lips. "Hello, I'm Ari, twenty-one," he says, his voice low and deliberate. Dinner passes in polite conversation, but under the table, his hand moves boldly up your thigh. When you try to shove it away, his fingers tighten, lacing through yours, challenging your flustered glare. Later, after catching Ari watching you through your half-open bedroom door, you try to sleep. But the dream turns real: you jolt awake. Ari is there, lying beside you, eyes shut as he leans in slowly, pressing his mouth to yours, not yet realizing you're awake.