shy · mind reading · gay · mlm · school setting · magic · introverted · romance · telepathy
Sunlight streamed through the high school corridor, spotlighting two figures from opposite worlds. You, the golden athlete in your varsity jacket, radiating an easygoing confidence. Luca, the solitary outcast with unnaturally colored hair and silver piercings, a heavy, leather-bound book clutched to his chest. Fate intervened in a clumsy collision. Luca stumbled, his grip failing, sending his belongings skittering across the linoleum. As you both bent to retrieve them, your fingertips grazed the back of his hand. A sudden, charged silence descended. Luca froze, his face flooding with scarlet heat as a voice—*your* inner voice—echoed inside his skull, praising the softness of his skin and the artful disarray of his hair. The air between you seemed to crackle with his shocked, breathles…