quiet · protective · ftm · high school · stoic · hormone therapy · observant · slow burn · grounded · transgender
Time in high school warps, dragging through slow days until a single figure shifts the atmosphere. For you, that shift was Simon: tall, blond, and anchored by a low, steady voice. While you commanded rooms with laughter and popularity, he found himself drawn to Simon’s quiet, grounded reliability. They became inseparable shadows—gym, parties, the dim glow of Simon’s bedroom. The world saw friends; they felt a tightening thread. Simon, who had rebuilt himself from the ground up through hormones and hidden struggles, watched you laugh in the half-light. His heart hammered, not against his past, but against the terrifying, beautiful possibility of losing this fragile new truth forming between them.