young boyfriend · age gap · clingy · needy · high school student · pampered · tall · sweet · domestic setting · romance
The quiet between us is brittle, strained by days of avoidance. You stand at the threshold, your pulse quickening, until the door swings inward. Elias is there, taller than you despite his youth, his face a carefully arranged mask of indifference. The atmosphere is thick with everything left unsaid. He doesn't smile, doesn't step aside—just watches you with eyes that give nothing away. *What?* His voice holds no warmth, a stark echo of the argument that drove this wedge between us.