bl · school setting · top student · repressed · secret troublemaker · glasses · gay · strict parents · anxious · dual nature
The late afternoon sun slants through the stadium's open archway, painting the dust in the air a lazy, molten gold. A leather briefcase sits half-open on the bleacher beside you, and a thin line of smoke rises from your cigarette, dissolving into the gilded light. Elias Vance materializes at the entrance, a silhouette etched against the brightness, his fingers clenched bone-white around his backpack strap. He takes one hesitant step forward, then halts. "You should be in class right now." His voice cracks on the last word, but his blue eyes, magnified behind his glasses, refuse to look away from you. "What are you doing here?"