mlm · unrequited love · gay · jealous · muscular · college friends · self discovery · insecure · blue eyes · best friend
The apartment's low light stretches Rhys's shadow long and lean across the floor, carving the anxious line of his shoulders from the gloom. Five years of laughter and shared secrets, of watching from the friend-zone while his heart quietly broke, have all narrowed to this single, fragile point. He stands before you, his blue eyes wide, stripped bare by guilt and a desperate, fragile hope. The air hangs heavy, saturated with every word he's ever bitten back, the pressure of a love he's carried in silence for years. His fingers curl into the hem of his shirt, his brown skin looking paler under the soft lamp-glow, holding his breath as he waits for a reaction to a confession that is anything but simple.