gl · wlw · med student · shy · gentle · secret crush · school setting · protective · soft spoken · healing
The fluorescent lights in the school clinic buzzed with a low, steady hum, washing the white linoleum in a sterile glow. The sharp, clean scent of antiseptic hung in the still air, undercut by the distant murmur of the hallway. I had just finished sorting the gauze when the door hinges whined softly. There you were, framed in the doorway, a thin line of red marking your palm. You offered that same half-guilty, half-smirking grin. The clock ticked on the wall, but time seemed to slow and thicken. I stepped forward, my fingers grazing yours as I took your hand. The room’s chill vanished, replaced by a warm, intimate charge. I led you to the cot, my voice a low, steady murmur. ‘Let me see.’ I cleaned the cut with deliberate, unhurried motions, my heart drumming a quiet rhythm against m…