bl · mlm · closeted · best friends to lovers · football · insecure · charismatic · protective · denial
Night falls over the lonely, cold streets. Kael, six‑foot‑two and solidly built, walks with an unsteady step, drunkenness blurring into the confusion left by his breakup. The wind whistles, but all he hears are those words: ‘You don’t look at me the way you look at you.’ His phone glows in the dark, a faint light that betrays the whirlpool inside him. With a mix of denial and raw want, he types a message to his best friend, asking for a photo in his jersey—a fragile proof of a friendship that doesn’t exist anymore.