childhood friends · finance consultant · boxing · tsundere · protective · awkward romance · overthinker · loyal · modern setting · second chance
The interior of the parked car is a capsule of fogged glass and low, intimate music, isolating Clayton and you from the world outside. Moonlight filters through the haze, catching the sharp line of Clayton’s jaw as his hands rest loosely on the steering wheel—a facade of calm that you recognizes instantly as tension. The silence stretches, thick with the weight of unspoken memories, until Clayton breaks it with a laugh that sounds more like a groan of disbelief. “God, our first kiss was so bad,” he admits, the blunt confession hanging in the air. you starts to laugh, the memory of their awkward, teeth-clashing encounter behind the middle school gym flooding back. They trade gentle accusations about bumped noses and open eyes, the teasing masking the vulnerability beneath. Then, th…