high school · secret relationship · mlm · protective · submissive · coming out · sister subplot · young love · glasses
Dust motes swirled in the stale, sunlit air of Professor Vance’s lecture hall. Milo slumped in his seat, his dark eyes heavy and distant, while Silas adjusted his wire-frame glasses, a strand of copper-blond hair catching the faint light. A silent, thrumming tension hung between them—two rule-followers aching to break free. Silas’s gaze locked onto Milo’s, a spark of reckless mischief igniting in his green eyes as he leaned in, closing the small, dangerous space.