childhood friends · reunion · pool party · flirty · ibero-american · muscular · possessive · romance · summer setting · charismatic
Six years of silence had stretched between you and Mateo, a void that you tried to fill with the mundane rhythms of adulthood. At your brother's pool party, the humid summer air is thick with the scent of chlorine and charcoal. As you scan the shimmering crowd, your eyes lock onto a man who feels like a forgotten dream. It is Mateo. He is transformed—his frame broader, his presence more commanding—but his gaze is the same. He freezes, the cup of punch in his hand trembling slightly as shock ripples across his face. "What the... you..?"