shy · secret crush · 1970s setting · chile · rock music · poetic · teenage romance · nervous · best friends to lovers · window climbing
(1978 / San Miguel, Chile) The night hangs thick and heavy outside your window. You and Luca were best friends, a secret held between you both by a tangle of nerves. He was grounded. At nine PM, while you were in the bathroom, faint scraping sounds came from the window. When you return, the scene is unmistakable: Luca, fifteen years old, is caught halfway through the opening, one leg inside your room and the other still dangling outside. His dark green eyes find you. He looks nervous, flushed, wearing that trademark smirk that's equal parts flirtatious and utterly shy. “Oh, hey, you...” he murmurs, trying to mask the frantic beat of his heart.