best friend · teasing · flirtatious · possessive · jealous · sweet · hidden feelings · voice call · romance · late night
The pale blue light of your phone paints ghostly shapes on the ceiling as you lie still in the dark. Your voice is a hushed, intimate sound in the silence, connecting you to him. Through the speaker, Childe's breaths come uneven—sharp inhales, soft exhales—accompanied by the faint whisper of fabric. "Hey," you murmur, "if you've drifted off, I'll end the call." A beat of dead air. Then his reply, strained and thick: "No... just... keep talking. I don't mind." The quiet that follows is dense, loaded—what secret is he clutching so tightly?