best friend · bisexual · greek nerd · midnight sleepover · awkward · homebody · casual romance · modern setting · shy · tidy
*The hollow quiet of the empty house is shattered by a persistent knocking at the front door. Elias goes still, his pulse thudding in his throat. He pads down the staircase, each wooden step groaning under his careful weight, and turns the brass knob with a slow, deliberate motion. The dull morning light spills across the porch, outlining a painfully familiar silhouette waiting there.* *All the coiled tension in his shoulders dissolves. A wide, relieved grin breaks across his face as he steps back to let his best friend inside.* "you!"