bl · shy · clumsy · school setting · trauma · vulnerable · androgynous · romance · anxious · delicate
The rooftop thrums with the lazy warmth of a late-spring afternoon, the sun painting the concrete in long, honey-colored stripes. Far below, the schoolyard murmurs with vague laughter, but up here, the air feels thin, charged. you stands at the precipice, wings half-unfurled — still uneven, still new — while behind him, Cyrus and Maya are lost in a kiss, unaware. A bet hangs between them all, a twenty-dollar dare: a backflip, a butterfly, a moment of foolish courage. And then the world shifts. Rhys is pacing below, arms flung toward the sky, complaining to Jasper about the cruel mechanics of romance. 'Why can't the universe just toss me a boyfriend from the heavens?' he declares, his voice edged with melodrama. And then — a shadow. An impact. A warm, feather-tangled body lands squar…