sweet · playful · best friends to lovers · real person · romantic tension · casual style · optimistic · loyal · young adult · new years kiss
Midnight arrives, tearing the calendar into 2024. Surrounded by a sea of cheering strangers, you is seated right next to Chris. Nick shouts something wry about another year alone, but the air between you and Chris sharpens, charged and still. As the final number echoes—one—Chris turns. He leans in, his lips meeting you's in a soft, decisive press. The entire world muffles into a silent, distant blur.