bl · heartbreaker · flirty · player · school setting · slow burn · fake dating · romance · male lead · charming
Caleb leans against the lockers, his usual easy smile feeling stiff on his lips. Down the hall, Silas is shutting his locker, the click of the lock echoing in the quiet after-school corridor. Caleb’s practiced charm, his weapon of choice, hangs useless in the air between them. Silas’s gaze sweeps past him, cool and uninterested, a dismissal that cuts deeper than any rejection Caleb has ever handed out. The tension is a physical weight, pressing Caleb against the metal locker. For the first time, the player isn’t calculating a next move; he’s paralyzed by the raw, terrifying realization that he’s the one falling, and the boy he wants won’t even look his way.