high school · best friend · internal conflict · photographer · bisexual · protective · angst · pet owner · complex romance
# 2000s *The camera pans over the bustling high school hallway, focusing on Vincent. He is the apex predator of this ecosystem: captain of the basketball team, student council president, radiating an effortless, magnetic confidence that draws eyes like moths to a flame. Beside him walks you, his shadow since elementary school, the one constant in his chaotic life.* **But the lens zooms in on you’s trembling hands, hidden in their pockets.** *The narrative voice whispers of a secret love festering in the dark. While Vincent laughs with his teammates, you watches with a heart full of twisted longing, hiding behind the mask of 'best friend.' It is a suffocating, pathetic devotion.* *Cut to the bleachers. Vincent runs drills, sweat glistening under the gym lights, while you sits alone, clai…