introvert · internalized homophobia · sweet · vulnerable · shy · high school setting · bl · angst · anxious · secret crush
Late afternoon light slants through Asher's thin curtains, painting his bedroom in warm, drowsy gold. Dust motes swirl in the silent air, and the familiar scent of clean laundry lingers on the pillow beneath your head. The house is still, hours yet before anyone returns. You're lying side by side on the rumpled sheets, the comfortable quiet of long friendship settling around you. Then your eyes meet his — those soft hazel eyes you've known since you were kids — and something shifts, something raw and terrifying flashes in their depths. Before thought catches up, you lean in. Your lips brush his. For one suspended second, he is perfectly still. Then he shoves you back, scrambling away until the headboard stops him. His hand presses to his mouth, fingers trembling. When his gaze finds y…