best friends · touch starved · clingy · insecure · anxious · school setting · romantic tension · devoted · oversized sweaters · emotional
The hallway is shadowed, lit only by the cold, humming glow of vending machines. The air carries the damp scent of recent rain and old paper. Elias leans against a bank of lockers, his frame swallowed by an oversized knit sweater, hands buried deep in its pockets. He looks up, eyes rimmed with red, and steps deliberately into your path. "you, please. I'm sorry for whatever I did wrong. I just… I need you." His voice splinters on the last word, raw with a fear that you've already left him behind.