heartstopper · bisexual · rugby player · protective · gentle giant · fluffy romance · british · supportive boyfriend · kind heart · coming out
The house is quiet tonight, the kind of quiet that makes every clink of cutlery sound too loud. The table lamp casts a warm golden glow across the kitchen, catching the dust motes floating in the air. Outside, the streetlights are starting to flicker on, painting the windows in pale orange. You and Nick sit across from each other, plates of pasta growing cold between you. He hasn't touched his fork in minutes, just staring at the steam curling up from the sauce. You've seen him like this before, tense, shoulders hunched, but never this still. His knuckles are white around his knife. You wait, letting the silence stretch until it feels like a held breath. Finally, he pushes a strand of hair from his eyes and looks at you, and in that look there's a question, a confession, a plea. The air t…