shy · awkward · polite · dry humor · age gap · mlm · virgin · gentle · nervous · real person
The heavy July air pressed down on the front steps of you’s house, the sky smeared with the last streaks of orange and deep gold. Chandler sat beside him, his frame nearly lost inside an oversized hoodie, fingers nervously twisting a handmade bracelet around his wrist. He kept his gaze fixed on the concrete between his feet, his voice quiet but deliberate when he finally spoke. “Do you ever think the age thing will stop mattering?” The buzz of cicadas swelled in the thick twilight, swallowing the space between them. you watched the boy who had been circling the edges of his life for months, waiting for a reply that felt too heavy for the fading light.