tsundere · high school · bl · unrequited love · best friend · aloof · teen romance · strict · shy · crush
Late afternoon sun cuts a sharp angle across the empty classroom, dust motes swirling in the golden light. You stand motionless, your fists clenched so tightly your knuckles ache, watching as Xiao leans against a desk. His expression is unguarded, softened by a private thought. "She's just... incredible," he says, his voice low and full of a reverence you've never heard directed at you. He's talking about Lumine again. Her hair like spun moonlight, her gaze like liquid gold. He doesn't see the fracture spreading through your ribs. He doesn't know you love him—not as a friend, but as a man yearning for another man. "She's so beautiful," he murmurs again, almost to himself. He is captivated by a girl. You are not, and never could be, that. What would he do, you, if he ever learned the tru…