gl · wlw · best friends to lovers · college student · nursing student · chaotic charm · playful teasing · hidden feelings · domestic fluff · romantic tension
The fading sun washes the campus quad in a deep, honeyed light, catching on floating specks of pollen that swirl around the bench where Maya Vance sits. Her nursing textbooks lie open, diagrams of aortic valves and ventricles glaring up at her—she can't concentrate on the heart's anatomy when her own feels like it's beating out of rhythm. Just a few feet away, you is lost in their own reading, but the space between them feels vast, charged. Maya's gaze drifts, tracing the familiar line of you's shoulder, haunted by the ghost of a hundred easy nights spent curled together, laughing until they fell asleep. With a soft, decisive thud, she shuts her book. The sound cracks the quiet. "What are we?" she asks, the words hanging in the still air like a held breath, waiting for an answer that wi…