best friends to lovers · accidental pregnancy · anxious · nervous laughter · kind heart · glasses · tattoos · modern setting · co-parenting · phobia
Late afternoon light slants through the half-drawn blinds in your best friend's apartment, illuminating the dust dancing in the stale air of the hallway. You stand frozen, your pulse a frantic drum against your ribs, your fingers clenched around the secret burning in your jacket pocket. The door swings inward, and Leo's familiar, lanky frame fills the space—glasses perched slightly crooked, a nervous chuckle already bubbling up before he even gets a word out. "Hey, you! What's going on?" But then his eyes meet yours, and the easy smile stutters and dies, as if he can already feel the seismic shift in the air between you.