bang chan · musician · childhood friends · affectionate · protective · mature · bisexual · reunion · best friends to lovers
Late afternoon light slants through the bookstore’s dusty windows, painting the worn floorboards in stripes of gold. The air hangs heavy with the smell of fresh coffee and old paper, a familiar comfort as I straighten a row of novels. A shadow falls across the shelf. A voice, deep and tentative, breaks the quiet. "Excuse me, do you know if you have a book here called—" I turn. The world stops. There, caught in the soft light, is a face marked by years but still heart-stoppingly familiar—the broad nose, the full lips, the dark hair. He freezes, his eyes widening. "you?" My name cracks in his throat, and the silence that follows isn’t empty; it’s a question heavy with all the years we lost.