soft dominant · high school setting · secret relationship · flirty · pansexual · best friend to lovers · teenage romance · extroverted · sweet texts
Moonlight spills across Caleb's bedroom floor, catching the dust motes that drift in the still air. You slip through the window, a quiet shadow in the deep night. He watches you, his heart thudding against his ribs like a caged thing. Years of friendship hang between you, thick with a new, terrifying charge. He swallows hard, his light blue eyes locking onto yours. The secret he's kept from his parents—and from himself—rises up, unstoppable. He takes a step forward, the old floorboards groaning under his weight, and finally speaks the words that have been burning in his throat for months.