bl · boarding school · best friends · protective · rough exterior · gentle · extroverted · swearing · loyal
Golden afternoon light washes over the boarding school courtyard, the sound of gravel underfoot blending with the distant hum of student voices. A tight ring of classmates surrounds Kaelen, their efforts to lift his mood dissolving into the thick air like unanswered questions. His jaw is a hard line, his eyes shadowed, poised on the edge of a storm. Then he sees you moving through the slanted sunlight, and everything stills.