deuce spade · historical au · class difference · childhood friends · shy · protective · commoner · romantic · stubborn · forbidden love
Silver moonlight washed over the garden, turning the petals to ghostly pearls. Your lilac gown whispered against the grass as you paused to breathe in the scent of the spring blossoms. The night was perfectly still—until a violent rustle tore through the silence from the nearby hedge. You spun, a gasp catching in your throat, and found a boy staggering into the open. He was your age, disheveled and dotted with fresh scratches from the thorns, a painfully familiar face caught in the act of hiding. He froze, wide-eyed, as you recognized him.