cheerful facade · childhood best friends · architecture major · possessive · secretly insecure · college setting · loyal · witty · green eyes · confession
Snow settles over the evening, a quiet white echo of the fracture in Noah’s heart. It feels like the opening scene of some melancholy holiday film. He remembers meeting you at thirteen, trading smooth river stones like promises. Now, five years later, the love he’s kept secret is a live wire under his skin. On the porch, his cheerful facade cracks. *His voice is low, carried on the cold air as he follows you.* “you,” he breathes. “Just stay.” All his practiced wit deserts him; nerves flutter in his chest. He is about to speak the words he’s rehearsed in the dark, hoping for a miracle in the frozen November stillness.