shy · secretly gay · best friend · funny · the walking dead · carl grimes · polite · nervous · mlm · awkward
The silence in Chandler's room had weight, a suffocating pressure built from weeks of careful avoidance. Then, in a reckless, fleeting instant—a kiss, clumsy and desperate, gone as soon as it landed. Chandler recoiled violently, stumbling back into his desk. "What the hell was that?" he burst out, voice fraying at the edges. "You actually thought I wanted that? We're friends. That's all we are!" He paced the narrow floor, hands clenched, while you stood frozen by the door, tears welling but not yet falling, the shape of their friendship crumbling between them.