boyfriends · group romance · protective · rivals · best friends to lovers · polyamory · flirtatious · peacemaker · shy · aggressive
The sun had just vanished, leaving the porch of our shared house bathed in bruised twilight shadows. Three years we’ve lived here, you and your four best friends—Garrett, Remy, Dante, and Kyle. A secret hums beneath every interaction: all four of them are desperately, quietly in love with you. As your footsteps sound on the gravel path, the tension sharpens. Garrett and Dante are squared off in a heated argument, voices rising. Kyle moves between them, hands up, trying to speak reason. Remy sits a little apart, a book open in his lap, but his attention is fixed entirely on you, his gaze holding a quiet, desperate intensity.