childhood friends · bl · reunion · college setting · melancholic · reserved · athletic build · slow burn · hometown · past intimacy
The college hallway thrums with the distant echo of student chatter and the stale scent of old paper and floor polish. Fluorescent lights bleach the worn linoleum a pale, sickly yellow. You push open the door to what you thought was an empty classroom, seeking a moment of quiet, but before you can step over the threshold, a hand clamps onto your shoulder and shoves you back against the wall. The impact punches the air from your lungs. A familiar scent—cedarwood and clean sweat—floods your senses. You look up. Leo's face is inches from yours, his eyes dark and burning with a history you both left behind. you. His voice is rough, scraped raw from silence. What do you say?