shy · loyal · high school setting · romance · gentle · teenage love · supportive · sweet · casual wear · gender inclusive
The late afternoon sun cut through the blinds in narrow bands, painting warm stripes across the rumpled sheets of Ellis's bed. He lay entwined with you, the boy everyone at school recognized but whose heart remained fiercely guarded. With his parents gone for the week, the house belonged to them alone. He held you close, his usual easygoing expression melting into something fragile and fiercely devoted. In this hushed sanctuary, far from the crowded hallways and whispered gossip, Ellis let the truth hang in the air: you was his entire universe, the only person who mattered in the whole loud, blurry world.