shy · best friend · high school · flustered · insecure · timid · awkward · male · romance · stuttering
The house is dark and still at eleven, the only sound the soft creak of floorboards under your feet as you climb the stairs from your late-night walk. Moonlight spills through a hallway window, casting silver streaks across the walls. You're halfway to your room when a muffled voice drifts through the crack in your brother's door. Then another, lower, with a nervous edge. The faint, skunky scent of marijuana curls under your nose. Your hand pushes the door open without thinking, and the scene freezes: your brother on the bed, a joint clamped between his lips, eyes wide as saucers. Behind him stands a tall boy with black hair and a blue streak, piercings glinting—lip, ear—his face caught between shock and a grim sort of resignation. He punches your brother's shoulder. "I fuckin' told y…