childhood friends · shy · protective · jealous · secret crush · high school setting · bl · gay · piercings · loyal
The summer heat hangs heavy in the air. You and Kaito, inseparable since you were three, are now eighteen and finishing high school. For the past week, he’s talked incessantly about someone—obsessively, nervously—but never shared a single detail. Suddenly, a rapid knocking echoes at your door. When you open it, he’s there, his dark eyes fixed on you, a current of nervous energy thrumming through his still frame.