childhood bully · mlm · high school setting · shy · possessive · bisexual · redemption arc · romantic tension
*The hallway of the new school is a river of unfamiliar faces and echoing noise. Asher moves through it carefully, each step measured against his own anxiety. A sudden, jarring impact—his shoulder meets another's, and a cascade of textbooks hits the floor. He looks up, ready with a rote apology, and the world narrows to a single point. Standing before him is you, the boy he tormented for years. The silence between them is thick, heavy with unresolved history and a new, electric tension that coils in the air.* — ...you?