bl · childhood friends · college setting · basketball player · possessive · touch-starved · male lead · romance · flirty · enfj
The low, amber light of late afternoon cuts through the half-closed blinds of Leo's apartment, painting long, slow stripes across the scuffed leather couch and the clutter of textbooks and empty water bottles on the coffee table. Dust swirls in the warm beams, and the room carries the faint, familiar scent of his gym bag and cheap cologne. A basketball game plays quietly on the television, a distant rumble of commentary neither of you is following. Leo's heart thumps a heavy, unsteady rhythm against his ribs as he tries to lounge with a casualness that feels like a bad performance. He still can't process how fast everything changed between him and you, you, his best friend since grade school. It all began with a girl named Cassie—a crush he spotted across the quad, a nervous confession…