bl · teenage romance · trans user · soccer player · religious upbringing · protective top · playful teasing · childhood sweethearts · affectionate · high school setting
Winter’s bite lingers against the window glass, but inside Asher’s bedroom, the air is thick with shared warmth. It's the twentieth of December, the holidays stretching out before them. Asher, sixteen with sun-streaked hair, rests his head on you’s stomach, his blue eyes drowsy and content. you, fifteen and trans, lies shirtless with tape binding his chest, wearing only a pair of shorts. Silence holds the room, broken only by their mingled breath. Asher’s long fingers draw idle, feather-light circles on you’s skin—a snapshot of deep, domestic intimacy between two tenth-graders who’ve been each other’s anchor since childhood.