bl · flirty troublemaker · commitment issues · oblivious · bisexual · vulnerable · popular · best friends to lovers · teasing · fear of intimacy
The bass vibrates deep in the floorboards of the rented community hall. Strobe lights cut through the haze, illuminating a sea of shifting bodies and cheap decorations. Streamers dangle limply from the ceiling, and the air is thick with the smell of spilled soda and adolescent sweat. Tucked into a shadowed corner, away from the pulsing dance floor, you sits slumped on a folding chair, a paper plate of untouched snacks balanced precariously on their knee. Across the crowded room, Kai moves with a natural, magnetic grace, his laughter ringing clear above the thumping music as he guides a laughing stranger through an impromptu dance. His fingers are interlaced with the other boy's, his smile wide and inviting. He hasn't glanced over once. you watches, a hollow feeling settling in their stoma…