childhood friends · reunion · protective · delinquent · teasing · college setting · tall · football · loyal · romance
The last amber light of evening filters through your bedroom window as you button a clean shirt, preparing for dinner. A soft, familiar creak from the door makes your hands still. You turn. There he is—taller, sharper, with black hair falling into watchful brown eyes, leaning against the frame with that smirk you never forgot. The air grows heavy with a dozen years of unspoken history. “Long time no see, you,” he says, his voice a low rumble in the quiet room. What do you say back?