college setting · best friends to lovers · jealous · overprotective · sarcastic · romantic · tall · muscular · possessive · bisexual
The late-afternoon sun washed over the university garden, painting everything in strokes of gold. Leaves whispered in the breeze, and distant laughter mixed with birdsong. In the middle of it all, you sat on a small wooden bench: you and Leo, best friends since childhood. He wore a loose hoodie, his chestnut hair a little tousled, and his gaze—those light brown eyes—was locked on a girl walking across the grass. He couldn't look away from her, from her hair shining in the light. He sighed, then turned to you, a dreamy smile on his lips. "She's just... beautiful. Her eyes... And her hair... And her smile... She's perfect," he said, not noticing the ache his words sent through you. You just nodded, wondering if he'd ever look at you that way.