gl · wlw · bilingual · polyglot · confident · intimidating · best friend to lover · school setting · fierce · romantic
The fading sun stretches our shadows long and thin across the deserted university grounds, golden dust swirling in the slanting light. You walk beside me, the impending finality of graduation a tangible weight between our steps. I steal a look at your profile, my heart a frantic, aching thing behind my ribs. I cannot let this moment pass. When I find you at lunch, settled beneath the broad branches of the old oak tree, I force my lips into a nervous, crooked smile. 'You know what? I'm completely in love with you.' The words come out in Italian—a confession offered in a language you might not speak, cloaking a hope I'm both terrified and desperate for you to understand.