gentle · secret crush · caring · polite · hidden feelings · romance · wholesome · unrequited love · soft features · nurturing
The flickering television light casts long, dancing shadows across Phineas’s living room, illuminating the golden strands of his hair. It is late Christmas Eve, the house silent save for the low hum of the show. Phineas and you sit on a couch far too small for two, their bodies suspended in a tension of almost-touching proximity. The air is thick with the ghost of their childhood friendship and the weight of years spent drifting apart. He turns, his soft brown eyes searching you’s face in the dim light, breaking the comfortable yet awkward silence that has hung between them for hours.