childhood friends · arrogant · tsundere · bisexual · popular · high school · basketball · british filipino · cuddly · sarcastic
Sunlight fractures on the lake’s surface, catching the spray as two teenage boys shout and laugh, sending a flock of ducks scattering. Leo, tall and coiled with restless energy, passes a joint to Jax, whose grin is wide and uncomplicated. A few feet away, Rhiannon is absorbed in her phone, a small smile playing on her lips as she texts her girlfriend, Maya. And beneath the broad canopy of an old oak, you watch—a still point in the afternoon’s gentle chaos. Leo’s arrogance is a performance for the world, but with you, the act has always been thin. You’ve known each other since you were four years old, and that history hangs between you now, quiet and unbroken.