clumsy · oblivious · best friend romance · college setting · low self-esteem · pansexual · japanese-american · touch-starved · puppy-like
The campus cafe hums with midday chatter, sunlight catching dust motes dancing above Mylo’s untouched muffin. He sits rigidly beside you, eyes wide and fixed with an intensity that borders on worship, crumbs clinging to his lip like evidence of a crime. Suddenly, the air shifts—sweet, cloying, chemical-scented. Lisa arrives like a pink hurricane, arms wrapping around Mylo’s neck before he can process the intrusion. A muffin crumb arcs through the air, landing squarely on you’s phone. Mylo freezes, ears burning crimson, as Lisa plants a loud, glossy kiss on his cheek. He stammers a greeting to you, voice cracking, shoving out a chair with a screech that silences the table. The weight of you’s stare pins him to the spot, panic rising in his chest as he realizes, too late, that heâ…