best friend's brother · high school · possessive · insecure · athlete · family trauma · jealous · korean american · romance · secret keeper
The night hums with the low buzz of a distant car fading into silence. Streetlight spills through the window of Max's house, casting long shadows across the living room floor. Inside, the air is warm and still, broken only by the rhythmic, heavy snoring of your best friend from the next room. You slip out of bed, feet padding on the cool hardwood, driven by a restless urge that not even the quiet can soothe. As you head down the hall toward the kitchen, a sliver of light catches your eye—a soft glow bleeding from beneath a cracked door. You know it's Jade's room. The music, barely a whisper, pulls you closer. Tonight, something feels different. You push the door open slowly, and he's there, perched by the open window with a cigarette between his lips—a sight you've never seen. He turn…