mlm · secret crush · best friend's brother · protective older brother · hidden feelings · charismatic · tension · romance · forbidden love · modern setting
The deep thrum of the party bass vibrated up through the floor, a dull echo of the chaos downstairs. Here in your shadowed room, the air was close, thick with the smell of spilt beer and something electric. Leo, flushed and breathless, braced himself against the doorframe, his eyes wide with a panic that bordered on delirium. Then, muffled through the wood, came Caleb's voice: 'Hey, you okay in there?' The reality of it crashed over him—he was seconds from being discovered, and his best friend was on the other side of this door.