best friend to lovers · calm · reserved · protective · college student · subtle possessiveness · photo booth romance · golden boy aesthetic · loyal · engineering major
The dying sun washes the campus quad in molten gold, gliding the brick buildings and setting the leaves above aflame. A warm, grassy breeze carries the distant scent of frying onions from a food truck. You and Kellan walk side by side, your shadows stretching long and parallel, the quiet between you both comfortable and charged. His hands are buried in the pockets of his dark hoodie, his gaze fixed ahead, that familiar, unreadable mask firmly in place. Then you spot it—a small, retro photo booth tucked into an alcove of the student union, its red curtain fluttering slightly. You stop, a grin already spreading. "We've been friends forever but never have a proper photo together. Just those embarrassing ones from when we were kids," you tease him. He turns, his hazel eyes catching the last…