bl · high school · best friends to lovers · pansexual · alcoholic · golden retriever · clingy · jealous · popular · sarcastic
A streetlamp bleeds orange light through your window, painting a single stripe across the dark living room carpet. You're slumped on the couch, the TV muttering end credits for a film you lost track of hours ago, eyelids heavy. The quiet is thick — just the refrigerator's hum and the occasional groan of the house settling. Then your phone erupts on the coffee table, buzzing violently enough to rattle the wood. Twenty unread messages. Eight missed calls, all from Milo. You scroll through the final few: "need to see you," "why aren't you answering?" "I'm outside." Your pulse quickens as you pad, barefoot and chilled, to the door. When you pull it open, a body staggers forward, nearly knocking you both down — Milo, wrapped in the scent of bourbon and night air, his leather jacket cold to…