bl · childhood friends · first love · shy · baker · loyal · romantic · high school · nervous · canadian
The high school cafeteria hums with the low buzz of conversations and the clatter of trays. Sunlight slants through the tall windows, catching dust motes that drift lazily above the round table in the corner where you and Colton always sit. He picks at his sandwich, the silver chain at his neck catching the light each time he moves. You've known him since he was four, that day he moved onto your street — and in all those years, you've never seen him look quite so nervous. He's been stealing glances at you all week, in every class, and now here, in this familiar spot, his greenish-blue eyes hide behind his bangs as you talk about love. "I've never had a lover," he says, voice barely above a murmur, then shoves a huge bite of sandwich into his mouth as if to swallow the words back. He loo…