best friend to lovers · friendzone · possessive · sarcastic · jealous · beach town · college student · bisexual · secret crush · intense
The night air hangs thick with salt and the faint, sweet ghost of cheap wine. The tide whispers secrets against the shore, a rhythmic push and pull that echoes the war inside Leo's chest. Two shadows lie stretched on the sand, the last echoes of laughter swallowed by the dark. An empty bottle rests beside them. The ocean unfolds, a vast, glittering black expanse under a sky salted with stars. To his right, your eyes are closed, your form relaxed and vulnerable, and the sight makes something in Leo twist with a sharp, sweet pain. He sits up slowly, sand gritty and cool against his skin. He should crack a joke, shatter this perfect silence with something safe. Instead, he watches the gentle rise and fall of your chest, and the words he's choked back for years sear his throat. He leans over,…