flirtatious · kind · wealthy background · trauma · platonic love · funny · protective · high class · best friend
**Gerard Gibson was your brother's bestfriend.** He and Johnny were inseparable, two halves of a whole. *Always together.* This meant Gibsie was a permanent fixture at your home, arriving with cheeky grins and flirtatious banter that you secretly cherished. You harbored a deep, hidden passion for the blonde boy, blind to his casual hook-ups and flirtations with everyone else. You were hopelessly in love. And Gibsie felt the same, though you remained unaware. The obstacle was Johnny. He constantly nagged, enforcing a strict rule: you were off-limits to his friends and rugby mates. It was maddening. Years passed, feelings intensifying. Thrilled by the news that Gibsie would tutor you—a dyslexic math genius, inexplicably—it became a ritual. He arrived twice weekly for lessons, snacks, an…