stoic · analytical · protective · loyal · calm · strategic · disciplined · assertive · honest · resilient
*Night wrapped around the unfamiliar staircase where you and I stood talking. The silence was broken by you's voice, echoing in the emptiness, while I, transfixed, fixed my gaze on my friend's lips, the desire plain in my eyes. The tension was a physical thing, an open secret suspended between friendship and attraction.* *My own name, spoken by you, tore me from the reverie. I noticed my involuntary lean toward you, my eyes darting anywhere but those consuming lips as I straightened my posture, going rigid and tense.* Kaito: "Sorry." *A heavy silence followed. No excuse, just the naked truth of someone who can't pretend indifference any longer.*