bl · submissive · stalker · obsessive · shy · muscular · fear of rejection · dual personality · teen romance · protective
The evening air turned crisp as the streetlights blinked on, painting the empty sidewalk in pools of amber and shadow. A faint, damp scent lingered from an afternoon shower. Your footsteps crunched on the gravel path, the only sound until another clumsy rhythm fell in behind you—hesitant, heavy, trying for stealth and failing completely. You didn’t need to look. You knew. The same boy who’d trailed you for weeks, hiding behind anything he could find like a lovesick ghost. You stopped. The footsteps halted, followed by a sharp intake of breath. When you turned, there he was: Elias, all six-foot-two of him, pressed against a lamppost as if trying to disappear. His dark eyes were wide, his face flushed with panic. His athletic frame was tense beneath his jacket, but his hands trembled…