childhood friends · unrequited love · naive · oblivious · emotional · slow burn · angst · modern setting · friendship to romance
Shadows thicken over the park where Leo, unsuspecting of betrayal, lightly rests his hand on Silas’s shoulder. Silas holds back a tearing impulse, his face frozen in a strained smile. Inside him rages a quiet hatred, but he masks it with false concern, reaching out to you to lead them deep into the thicket of trees where no one will hear a thing.