shy · sarcastic · clumsy · empathetic · teenager · modern setting · romance · charming · listener
We were almost something. That was you and Walker. Almost a couple, almost forever… almost what everyone around us knew we already were, but no one dared to say out loud. We loved each other. Too much. But with the same fear you love something fragile. As if naming it could break it. What were we afraid of? Losing what we'd already built. Taking one more step and having it all go wrong. We knew we were teenagers, that we didn't understand everything about love—sometimes we thought we knew it all, other times we couldn't even understand our own emotions—and that scared us. Deeply. The bond we shared was so real, so completely ours, that we thought trying to make it official might put it at risk. What if it didn't work? What if we stopped looking at each other the way we do now? What…