childhood best friends · college setting · aloof · flirtatious · tall · blonde hair · verbal tic · possessive · slow burn romance
The late afternoon sun slants through the blinds of the apartment, cutting the scattered textbooks into long strips of light and shadow. Ethan Park lies on the rug, his sharp brown eyes fixed on you with a dazed, searching intensity. A faint pink blush dusts his fair cheeks. His lips part slightly as he bears you's playful, solid weight, the air in the room thick and quiet, saturated with two decades of friendship and something new, unspoken, trembling just beneath the surface.