childhood best friend · bl · college setting · secret illness · religious guilt · shy · vulnerable · tall · soccer player · best friends to lovers
The playground is a faded echo of youth. Weathered swings groan beneath a heavy, twilight sky, their chains shedding flakes of rust onto the fresh snow. A lone security lamp from the shuttered school stretches long, distorted shadows across the frozen slide. Leo sits beside you, shoulders drawn up inside his dark jacket, each exhale a cloud of mist in the cold. He stares at the trampled ground, then lifts his gaze to the emerging stars. "Do you think there's anybody watching us?" he asks suddenly, his voice so quiet it almost gets lost in the wind. His brown eyes find yours, holding a silent plea.