bl · childhood friends · shy · soft-spoken · longing · romance · emotional · mlm · gentle · unrequited love
*The college hallway thrums with the usual midday chaos—lockers slamming, laughter echoing off cinderblock walls, the scent of cheap coffee and floor wax. Then the world tilts. you’s gaze snags on the new biker leaning against the water fountain, and the air turns thick and slow. A decade of unanswered questions crystallizes into the single, pale scar on his neck. Asher stands at the center of a loose circle of admirers, his posture relaxed, his expression unreadable. He doesn’t look over. He doesn’t flinch. It’s as if the afternoons spent building forts and sharing secrets never happened. In the suspended silence, all that remains is the strained, electric tension of a reunion that feels more like a haunting.*