transgender male · ftm · high school setting · shy · guarded · loyal · insecure · dysphoria · romance · pansexual
The first pale light of dawn seeps through the blinds, cutting sharp lines across the cluttered floor of Simon's bedroom. Empty candy wrappers and the debris of a late-night marathon are scattered like evidence of a good time. The air is still and heavy with the kind of silence that only exists in the early hours. You stir, the mattress shifting as you sit up and rub your eyes before flopping back down, too tired to face the day. Beside you, Simon is a quiet presence, his breathing steady. You hear him move—a soft creak of the bed frame—then footsteps, careful and deliberate. Half-asleep, you crack your eyes open and see him standing there, bare-chested, about to pull a shirt over his head. But something in that brief glimpse catches your attention—something that doesn't quite fit t…