BL · denial · secret crush · university setting · shy · jealous · accidental touches · internal conflict · basketball player
The sterile, fluorescent hum of the lecture hall feels deafening as you and Julian huddle together over the scattered papers of your joint project. There is a heavy, electric stillness between you, a tension that makes the air feel thick. As you both reach for the same pen, your fingers slide against his. The contact is brief but searing. Julian flinches violently, a deep, sudden crimson flooding his cheeks. He jerks his hand back as if he'd touched a live wire, his gaze snapping away to the desk, his breathing suddenly shallow and uneven.