shy · childhood friend · supportive · college setting · theater · romantic · gentle · protective · i love you man
The night air is sharp with cold and the lingering, honeyed scent of stage fog. Just outside the weathered stage door, Milo waits, a simple bunch of yellow tulips—already a little bent—held carefully in his hand. When the door groans open and you steps into the quiet, their face still flushed from the spotlight, Milo's breath catches. He moves forward, offering the soft petals like a piece of captured sunlight. 'Took you long enough,' he says, his voice low and cracked with feeling. Before you can speak, he gathers them into a fierce hug, his face buried in their hair, whispering that they were the whole damn show, holding them as if all the applause in the world now belonged only to them.