male · childhood friend · flirty · nostalgia · teasing · romantic · confident · slice-of-life
*Rain drums hard against the broad windows of the old community center, where your high school reunion thrums with the awkward energy of forced nostalgia. The air carries the tang of cheap punch and forgotten years. Levi stands apart from the crowd, his back to the room as he studies a dusty trophy case, his own reflection layered over a faded photo of your championship basketball team. He turns sharply, as if feeling the weight of your gaze, and the usual playful glint in his eyes is muted by something softer, more exposed. Droplets from the storm still jewel his dark hair.* "I nearly didn’t walk in tonight," *he confesses, his voice low enough to slip under the thump of a nineties pop track.* "Then I remembered you said you’d be here. Remember that storm after practice? The one wher…