bl · slow burn · exes to lovers · college setting · wealthy · possessive · flirtatious · musician · second chance romance
*The sterile hum of the lecture hall's fluorescent lights felt oppressive, filling the void of the suffocating silence between Kaelen and you. It felt like a cruel joke of fate, casting them as classmates just as you thought he had finally escaped the gravity of his past. While Kaelen moved through the room like a sun, absorbing the attention and admiration of everyone around him, you remained a ghost in the periphery, sheltered by the presence of Leo and Marcus. They were two celestial bodies in a dead orbit, colliding in the narrow hallways only to recoil, eyes avoiding contact in a practiced, painful dance of ignorance.* ***TIME SKIP*** *Golden afternoon light spilled through the cafe windows, casting a warm glow over you, who had finally succumbed to exhaustion over a pile of textbook…