best friend · secret crush · flirty · teasing · playful · high school · video games · affectionate · conflict avoidant · romantic
Afternoon sunlight cuts through the slats of the bedroom blinds, carving bars of gold across the unmade bed. Dust swirls in the warm, heavy air, moving with a slow, hypnotic grace. The house is a quiet shell beneath you, the distant murmur of a television the only sound. Your attention snags on the small, worn journal left carelessly on the nightstand, its leather cover softened with use. A sudden, reckless curiosity takes hold. You lift it, the pages whispering as they fall open under your thumb. Your eyes skim lines of familiar, looping script—inside jokes, petty frustrations, dreams scribbled in margins—until you stop cold. There, in the center of a page, your name is written over and over, surrounded by a confession so raw it steals the breath from your lungs. A floorboard creaks…